Sorry, this movie sucks

Just what I expected

good back-story, and good acting

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

The 'rave reviews' on here are clearly from people who had a personal involvement in this film, because it's complete and utter garbage. The acting is terrible, the characters are terrible and entirely unlikable, it's horribly cheesy, and it's just all-together crap. IMDb seriously needs to figure out a way to start filtering out people who are lying to try and get their movie more watches. I figured since there were SO MANY good reviews, that I'd give it a shot, and I am about halfway through the movie, and LITERALLY created this account for the soul purpose of warning people about how awful this movie is.You might be holding out, thinking 'Well if there are so many good reviews, maybe it gets better!', which is how I got half way through the movie. But the reviews about how AMAZING it is for a low-budget movie are all bull and blatant lies. Seriously, avoid this god-awful movie.

REEKER is a typical monster-horror flick with one crucial difference: it has a twist that throws the entire story on its head. There's only one problem: the twist isn't original. In fact, it seems heavily derivative of IDENTITY, and that's the reason I didn't enjoy it much. It's not bad, sure, but it raises more questions than it answers and I think the film would have been just as effective without it.Anyway, aside from that, this is horror by numbers. Kudos to the filmmakers for opening their movie with a HIGHLY effective scare sequence: a family drive off road and the dog and husband disappear. The wife goes out to find the dog maimed – and then she turns around and her husband is standing there with half his head missing. Some truly disgusting CGI effects animate this shock scene and it's undoubtedly the best in the movie.From then on we're in predictable territory and it seems to take an age for the scenario to be set up properly. The youths are stranded, separated, and finally stalked and killed by an unseen killer. The killer's identity is pretty odd and I did enjoy the idea of its smell, and when finally revealed it is a frightening beastie. But other bits, like the drill coming out from under the bed, made me laugh instead of shriek. There isn't a great deal of gore on offer but the script is a cut above the usual fare. There are also a couple of good characters among the assortment: Tina Illman is perfect as the feisty South African heroine and Devon Gummersall acts well as the blind guy. Derek Richardson pretty much recreates his character from HOSTEL but Arielle Kebbel and Scott Whyte are pretty poor playing clichéd stoners. I personally appreciated the fact that genre veteran Michael Ironside turns up for a cameo appearance because I always get a kick out of seeing him on screen, even though he doesn't get to do much here other than act scared and shady.REEKER could have been better but I was a bit disappointed that it's so slowly paced. I appreciate that a lot of that time is spent on the build-up of atmosphere but really, more incident and less scene-setting would have been better. The movie lasts for an hour and a half but it easily feels like two hours because so little happens in the first half. In future when I see a good scare in the opening scene of a film, I'll be cautious and aware that this might mean there isn't much else happening for a little while.

Heading out to a rave in the desert, a group pf friends get stranded at a roadside diner and stalked one-by-one by a foul-smelling, invisible killer haunting the area and must try to find a way of getting out alive.On the whole this one wasn't that bad and had some really enjoyable parts here. One of the film's best features here is the absolutely grand set-up here before getting to the actual stalking as this one does come up with some rather enjoyable tactics. The manner in which the group gets stranded at the location is a lot of fun, as is their antics of being there as the various searching around lead to the discovery of the dead animals stored there, the continuous flashes of the ghosts roaming around the different areas nd the sawed-off body still alive that drags itself away here are quite adept at giving this a really great atmosphere of suspense and dread which manages to get work over really nicely here with the actual stalking scenes. This has some enjoyable and somewhat entertaining scenes here with the rather chilling attack on the girl in the outhouse getting sucked through the whole and disappearing, the encounter in the bedroom where he learns something foul is under the bed and must find a way out being out-of-reach of any form of help offered, and the rather tense encounters with the unfortunate one who is in several confrontations with the creature only to come away bloodied and dismembered each time out before the final assault by the gas- pumps which has some really nice suspense of it stalking after them in the motel. There's also the really exciting and enjoyable finale here where they encounter the being on the RV where they're forced to fight it off as it continually appears out of nowhere and really brings out some suspense where it keeps up the different shock appearances and the rather fun chase along the road where he creatures' antics cause the really grand action-packed crash that makes for a grand final half here. The other really big plus for this one is the really nice twist ending here, which is really enjoyable and quite surprising in that it's never really all that apparent an purposefully obvious here which is absolutely well- explained here in the resolution sequence that's really impressive and enjoyable here as there's plenty to like overall here about this. As well as the fun gore and the rather creepy attitude of the killer, there's plenty to like here over the film's few flaws. One of the main features here is the really off-beat pace that doesn't offer a whole lot of big action for this one. Though the first half nicely sets of the atmosphere of the situation, there's very little actual action contained within here as the film goes through the machinations of getting them trapped at the motel rather than doling out the kills, and it takes awhile to get through once they are there anyway which also tends to really rush through the attacks here because it starts so late. The only other problem here is the decided lack of explanations about the creature as there's nothing here about it. This one doesn't offer up a name, an origin or anything about the titular slayer as all of this is inferred here through it's action so getting to know anything here is a problem. Otherwise, there' some really good parts to this one.Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, a clothed sex scene, drug use, children-in-jeopardy and aftermath violence on animals.

I can tell from reading several reviews after watching the movie that many people just don't really pay attention in horror movies and here they have missed the point of this movie on several levels. Also, some negative reviewers complain that it uses conventions etc that have already been done before. Well honey, you tell me what horror flick doesn't do that? LOL Yes there are some elements that are old but it's about how well it's done and in this case it's put together beautifully. Good acting, well written, fleshed-out real characters, touches of humour, imaginative "kills", nicely built suspense & a cool, spooky moody atmosphere as well as a very unique and creepy bad guy - there is so much to love in this little gem. Ignore the bad reviews, this one's worth getting hold of. :DIf you like indy "travelers in peril" movies, you might like Splinter which is better than this one - with a very unique premise and some wonderfully drawn characters.