Botched

[Marcus]

A horror Comedy that sounded pretty good, and the cover had a decapitated man with lots of blood on the floor and the trolly and the lift, so thought I'd buy it

Synopsis:
When a thief with zero luck screws up one heist, he finds himself sent over to Russia to even things out. But when that gig also turns sour, things go from miserable, to horrible, to downright supernatural in a bloodsucking, flesh-eating zombie kind of way.

[dedwyre]

The British version must have a different cover. The cover I've seen has a guy tied to a chair who has fallen over, and the floor's wet, but it doesn't look like blood. Same plot, though.

[Werewolf]

Well what's it like?

[Marcus]

Got the film now, and can see the cover in better detail. It has a man tied to a chair that's tipped over, like the one that dedwyre mentioned, but he's definatly beheaded, as his head is on the other side of the picture, and there's blood on the walls, floor, lift doors. Guess they taimed it down for you americans

[Marcus]

Watched this last night It was pretty good in an odd way.

The humour took a little to get into, but once I did found it pretty funny To me the film got funnier the more it went on and you saw more of the character's personalities showing through.

It has a small part played by the Sergant from Dog Soldiers - so yay!

And it has several other people most will recognise (like the artist girl form the lastest season of Dexter), though I cannot think of their names at the moment.

There were no blood thirsty, flesh eating zombies in it - which is odd that the films synopsis mentions such. But I can say they were not missed the villian in it were more than adequate in making a mess.

No idea how this got to be a 15 rather than an 18 rating. Probably because of the humour involved in the scenes.

The style of the film worked well for it, and it didn't have that Glossy feel a lot of hollywood films do.

Wasn't keen on a lot of the background music - sounded disjointed and slightly irritating. But not enough to spoil the film.

So if you like slightly odd characters, humour, and gore than this film is worth watching.

[dedwyre]

Sept 24, 2008 9:11:36 GMT -5 Marcus said:

Got the film now, and can see the cover in better detail. It has a man tied to a chair that's tipped over, like the one that dedwyre mentioned, but he's definatly beheaded, as his head is on the other side of the picture, and there's blood on the walls, floor, lift doors. Guess they taimed it down for you americans

Odd. I figured blood was edited in Europe and sex was edited in North America.

[Marcus]

Our UK Censor board has got pretty relaxed in the last few years. You have to have a pretty extreme film these days for it to get an 18 rating. Most modern horror get released with a 15 rating.

[Werewolf]

True. Our censors are letting a lot more few these days. Isn't it strange that they mention flesh eating zombies yets there's none in the movie. When i read the synposis for Sahara it said there were zombies in there too so i was expecting them flee from hoards infected people. NOTHING! Just a few funny looking people ill!

[dedwyre]

So the term "zombie" is being used very loosely in film descriptions as a way of enticing potential viewers? Next there's going to be a movie that advertises werewolves but features a regular dude who howls for five seconds and then gets shot.

[Marcus]

It is strange. False advertising, tut tut.

[Werewolf]

If they feel the film is that bad they have to pretend there are zombies in it perhaps they should have added some in the first place or don't release it!

[Marcus]

Perhaps whoever wrote the blurb didn't read the script properly.