Waste of time

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

So this is my first review here on IMDb, but I read on that was mostly negative and I just had to defend this trash jewel. This is a very fun movie it has great special effects, like old horror movies that don't rely on CGI at all. A Micheal Bay fan will not enjoy this gore fest. If you love movies that are made to be bad like Kung Fury or Black dynamite then you are going to love this one. Give it a try seriously. Summary: I'll try to keep this short and spoiler free. A stereotypical over the top fraternity is suspended from campus due to a prank gone wrong. They are send to an old haunted house in the woods. After that it all follows a known recipe horror fans know and enjoy. The director did a good job making the movie look like a 70's horror film. The writing team also did a great job as there were lots of funny jokes. The comedy part is also the best part of the movie, don't expect to be scared if you have seen a lot of horror movies before. 7/10

I enjoy many online entertainers. From The Cinema Snob to Red Letter Media, there's a lot of people who make great content online. One of my favorites is 5 Second Films. They are a group of people based in Los Angeles who make short films that are only five seconds long. They had a new film every weekday for five years and during the fifth year, they launched a Kickstarter to make a feature length film called Dude Bro Party Massacre III, based on one of their short films. They needed $200,000 and they got $240,000. So they got to make their dream project and just a little over two years after the Kickstarter was launched, it's finally out. I've been a fan of 5 Second Films since 2011, when I discovered them through Patton Oswalt on twitter. I immediately loved their bizarre, twisted and sometimes dark sense of humor. I'm really impressed how funny their shorts can be in just 5 seconds. So to see what they can do with a feature film is very exciting. Dude Bro Party Massacre III is a tribute to 80s slasher flicks that many of the 5SF members loved when they were teenagers. The reason they decided to make the third film in the series is because that's usually the film in this genre where things get really bizarre and insane. The nonexistent first two films are recapped in the first five minutes of this movie. After Brock (Alec Owen) is killed by Motherface (Olivia Taylor Durdley), his twin brother Brent (Owen, again) must investigate his murder and gain the trust of the Delta Bi Theta fraternity that Brock was a part of. After the Deltas' senior prank goes horribly wrong, they must stay at the Old Sorority House by the lake. A plan is then set in motion by the police chief (Patton Oswalt), who is also a cult member, for Motherface to murder the Deltas.Not only does this movie prove that 5 Second Films is absolutely capable of making full length movies, but I think they've made a comedy that puts many modern Hollywood comedies to shame. This film had me in tears twice, both times involving Brian Firenzi's Officer Sminkle, and provided lots of other great laughs throughout the whole film. 5 Second Films used every bit of their Kickstarter funds wisely and have crafted one of the best comedies of this decade so far. The direction, the writing, the acting, the practical effects, etc., it's all great. The humor is so detailed and well written, that there may have been some jokes or visual gags I may have missed. The film is full of insanely weird twists that are all hilarious. There's a line early on in the film that is funny on its own, but when it actually has payoff at the end, it's kind of genius. This is a fantastic tribute to 80s slasher movies as well. The practical gore effects are excellent and the movie does a perfect job of capturing that 80s horror movie feel. I enjoy that this movie has the gender reversal where the boys are sexually objectified and terrorized instead of the girls.The level of detail is fantastic. What they were able to do in their shorts, is amplified in this movie. The movie is made to look like it was a midnight movie recorded off a VCR and is the single remaining copy of the film. The movie has brief commercial breaks that are little short films of their own. They're very funny and don't interrupt the flow of the actual feature.The cast is great. Alec Owen is a great lead as Brent. The Delta Bi members are all very funny and they bring a distinct personality to each of their characters. Paul Prado, in particular as Turbeaux, steals a lot of the scenes he's in. The character I enjoyed the most was Officer Sminkle played by 5 Second Films creator, Brian Firenzi. Like I mentioned earlier, there were scenes with him that had me in tears, I was laughing so hard. He and his girlfriend, Maria Del Carmen, share their scenes together and they play off of each other very well. She plays Sminkle's partner and she covers up her English accent very well. Olivia Taylor Durdley is really good as Motherface. She's kind of a typical killer, but she plays it well. Kelsey Gunn is also really funny as one of the Delta Bi member's girlfriend, Samantha.There are some great cameos as well. Patton Oswalt is great as the chief, Greg Sestero and Andrew WK play Delta Bi members and even Larry King shows up in the opening recap.Dude Bro Party Massacre III is one of my favorite comedies of this decade. 5 Second Films has proved that they can make feature length films with the amount of detail and care that they've put into this film. If you enjoy bizarre, twisted humor and fun throwbacks to 80s slasher movies, then I highly recommend this film.

Let me just start out by saying, I'm an avid Horror movie fan and also I have a major love for comedy. Dude Bro Party Massacre III was everything I hoped it would be and more. Witty, Smart, Weird, Gory, Hysterical, and just about everything in between.It's more then just an 80's slasher spoof as well. DBPM3 has multiple layers and so many things going on. It's one of those films you could watch again and again, and still find new things to laugh at. I especially loved the UHF style commercials, and the copied straight from VHS look and feel. All the writers and the directors outdid themselves! The acting and the cast are just as awesome. I just wanted to give a special shout out to Paul Prado as Turbeaux. That character is truly something special. He definitely will go down in the Frat Dude hall of fame with that one! Long story short, If you're a comedy fan and or a horror movie fan you will love this to death! I read in some other reviews online that said Dude Bro Party Massacre III is to 80's Slasher flicks, as Wet Hot American Summer is to teen camp movies. 2 totally different films, but the spirit is definitely there.Congrats to everyone involved! It's an awesome flick!

Just as some movies that should be great turn out to be awful, some movies that should be awful turn out to be great - Dude Bro Party Massacre III. Unfortunately, for a film that's based on a Frat party gone wrong, none of the current Frat members are going to admit to liking it now. Few will give it a chance and realize the direction is good, the acting is good, the music is good, that it's exciting, funny, scary, suitably epic and absolutely action-packed and that it looks fantastic.What looks like suicide at first glance - converting an average Chico party into a full-length feature - gets more appealing when you look at the source material closer. The real party was an epic hybrid of Dude broness and parties, with ancient teachers and janitors mixing with sex and murder. It also has a classic Alfred Hitchcock Birds feel, mixing Ancient Greece-era symbols and people who don't understand their significance.Dude Bro Party Massacre III succeeds because it takes the real experience of College and adapts not it's superficial qualities, but it's essence into a movie, turning it into a mature Homedy. This is where so many College based movies failed. They don't adapt their source material properly to make a successful feature film. You need to make the movie a natural progression from what it's based on, altering the look enough so it looks acceptable in real action, altering the characters into real people, choosing actors who can give real performances. It's not simply dressing superstars up as characters from a Fraternity, it's re-imagining the ideas as a movie. DBPM3 does this perfectly. You can fault it as a film itself, of course, but you can't fault it as an adaption.The production design is superb, with some superbly realized sets and costumes. Everything has been adapted to look more realistic on the big screen. The cast give uniformly decent performances. Nobody lets the side down - these are all 3D characters. Alec Owen proves he's one of the young men in our society who can truly act. Patton Oswalt gives an outstanding performance as Chief, his powerful presence almost bursting out of the TV and into your living room. Oswalt gives a shining example to all actors portraying hooded figures. There is a pervading sense of dread whenever he appears and the script gives him some awesome lines which he delivers with pure comedy prowess.Setting the movie in the middle of nowhere has it's advantages and disadvantages. It does give the film a human component. It also makes the murderer scarier - rather than being a distant psycho. On the other hand, it would have been cool to see some more of Chico and it's weird inhabitants and locations, but DBPM3 had a relatively small budget, so that sort of stuff was off limit anyway.DBPM3 is also packed with action, and we do mean packed. There is an outbreak of violence every 15 minutes or so, usually even less, and there is variety and imagination among the content, unlike many Homedy films, which consist of repetitive one-liners and fart jokes. It could possibly be said that it's quality over quantity, as some of it, particularly the jokes, are extremely well filmed, and none of the jokes ever reaches critical mass. And all the horror grows organically from the story - none of it seems put in simply because the movie needed an extra scene at a certain point.When Dude Bro Party Massacre III is released at cinemas this summer, people would realize how good it is compared to the blockbuster summer fare we get these days. And all for 400k, which is hardly anything.My Final note is Bravo and Thank you for a truly superb film.