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Better Late Then Never

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

First, let me just say the movie looks great. The DP knew exactly what he was doing when he shot this film because it looks very professional. However, he may have been the only guy on the crew who knew his job.Yes, the acting is bad. So is the direction and the plot. But, my biggest gripe is with the post-production team. Specifically, the sound...I have a question for whomever was in charge of post.....was this movie ever even sound mixed? The mix is unbelievably awful from a technical standpoint. Some of the dialog is so quiet, I couldn't hear it unless I turn my TV nearly all the way up. Then, I'd almost immediately get sprung from my chair because some sound effect would slam in at what seemed to be 90 decibels. Of course, there I am flying to the remote control to drop the volume back to a human level. Hey guys, next time, mix your friggin' movie. This "mix" is so bad, I wouldn't even insult amateurs by calling it amateurish. Plus, as the other poster noted, the sound jumped out of sync with the picture for like 5-10 minutes near the end. What's the story with that? To be fair, I don't want to put ALL the blame on the filmmakers/post-production crew. Freestyle Home Entertainment (whoever they are) NEVER should've released a film this poorly mixed. I mean, it's just flat-out unfinished. What were they thinking?

After dallying through almost 20 minutes of this amateur film my hubby remarked "What's going on with that music?" What was going on, and continued to go on until the movie finally, mercifully, faded away was that the person scoring the film apparently fell asleep with his head nudged against the same eternally dull chord on his synthesiser. One note bellows endless, mindlessly, throughout nearly the entire movie, no matter what is happening in any scene, it gets the same blaring note. Honestly, if you can't expect the composer to stay away, please don't expect the viewer to do so either. One only wishes that the composer was a restless sleeper so that he could have nudged against some different keys from time to time.This video appears to be an amalgam of three or four different stories. It starts out as a teenage video nasty, morphs into a psychological melodrama, veers out of control into an incomprehensible police copper programmer, and then succumbs uncomfortably into a pseudo-horror sequence. At the end of the day, nothing that you've been watching can possibly gel into one story that you can hang your hat on.The world at large blames a lot on the Yanks these days but if this is what you all are watching then perhaps some of the behaviour we see on the evening news can be excused.

The drab tranquility of the sleepy little town of Rockville gets harshly thrown out of wack after four teens are viciously murdered. It's up to stalwart Sheriff Duncan (a strikingly good portrayal by the usually lacking Joe Estevez) and sincere, but rather inept Deputy Charlie Fisher (the engagingly geeky Circus Szalewski), assisted by obsessively thorough Detective Amy Rogers (well played by ravishing brunette Nicole Buehrer), to catch the culprit. The most probable suspect is a young lady who just escaped from a nearby asylum. The young lady is arrested, attempts to get away and is subsequently killed while making her attempt. But the seemingly simple cut and dried case is far from over or solved. In fact, it's just the opening of a whole can of worms which will change several people's lives forever. "The Rockville Slayer" rates as a most pleasant and unexpected surprise. For starters, it's a complex and involving mystery thriller instead of the mindless slasher horror flick its misleading title suggests. Moreover, the well-drawn characters are refreshingly real, flawed and recognizably human. Director Marc Selz, working from his own intricate and intriguing script, delivers a nice smattering of nudity and grisly violence, effectively creates a creepy and unnerving atmosphere, offers plenty of truly startling plot twists, and keeps the pace moving forward at a pleasingly speedy clip. The fine cast all contribute excellent performances, with especially nifty appearances by Linnea Quigley as a local harlot who went crazy and the ever-intimidating Robert Z'Dar as her brutish husband. Kudos are also in order for Joe Harris' crisp, handsome cinematography and Karl Sundstrom's neatly spare'n'shivery synthesizer score. Overall, this baby qualifies as a real strong and satisfying unsung little sleeper.

Thought the film was OK. Z'Dar as always makes a silk purse out of a sows ear. If he wasn't in this flick I'd have given it maybe an 8/10. The amount of films this man has rescued is staggering. He was great as ass-face in Tyrone, a bad film lifted by him Even when his coasting like in Guns of El Chupacabra he lifts the film. incidentally his name in that, Z-Man Lord Invader is one of the all time great cinema monikers. I don't want to sound like I like everything that Z'Dar has been in. Frogtown 2 was nowhere near as good the original, he was partly to blame for this sadly. I also have too say his big break, sadly headlining a well respected horror franchise doesn't seem top count, but thats another issue. His big break in the brat pack mafia Mobsters. Well the film was such a stinker that all those involved suffered some career damage, sadly as the lowly goon Robert was bound to suffer more than most. Real shame.