Undescribable Perfection

Better Late Then Never

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

ROGUE RIVER is one of those low budget horror films that feels like it has big aspirations. It wants to be the next big fear flick, the sort of film to have crowds flocking to theatres to get caught up in a thrilling journey into hell. Unfortunately it's an entirely predictable and routine affair, one that slavishly copies the plot of a dozen other movies (such as the Aussie flick THE LOVED ONES) while remaining singularly unsatisfying throughout.The best thing ROGUE RIVER has going for it are some surprisingly decent production values, and effective cinematography to boot. Jourdan McClure certainly knows how to make his film look good on a budget, and there's none of that dodgy shaky cam editing to spoil things. The acting isn't too bad either; Michelle Page is a relatively likable heroine (until she starts making dumb decisions, that is) and Bill Moseley and Lucinda Jenney are quietly effective as the mysterious homeowners.Unfortunately what sinks this is the calibre of writing, which just isn't up to much. For once I would like to watch a low budget horror film that avoids clichés, but I wonder if it will ever happen. There's the usual excursion into torture porn territory here (although thankfully nothing too distasteful), along with some extremely dumb character decisions in the second half that will make you despise the characters. I think of such moments as plot holes, designed purely to string a lacking plot out just a bit further, and they make ROGUE RIVER a disappointment.

I have just had the pleasure of watching this wonderful film. I think if I ever see it again I may just implode with excitement.I know I ticked the spoilers box thing, but to be fair, not a lot really happens to spoil.She's really stupid, gets roped into things so easily she deserves her fate, she screams a lot, people get shot, more people get shot, totally bland sex scenes happen, ridiculous deaths occur, more people get shot, someone gets stabbed and then it ends.I can't actually bring myself to remember the plot - as there isn't one.Do not watch this film. I think it sounded pretty good as an idea, but was realised in such an awful way that every copy needs to be found, shredded, burned and then dumped somewhere on the dark side of the moon.

Well it was almost midnight and I couldn't catch up with my sleep and so I decided to watch this movie to my surprise half way through the movie I was fast asleep and what can I say the movie makes me sleep the good think Is I was able to finally fall asleep and the bad is the movie is a disgrace for even a b rated movie!The flaws are pretty much obvious which is bad acting,bad editing,bad dialogue and it makes absolutely no sense why the kidnappers are doing those thing to her! I just hope they would stop wasting money on movie where we cant sit through for even 15 minutes of it! Don't waste your money or your time on this piece movie it's just plain boring to sum it up!

I'm serious with the summary line, though I guess you can misinterpret it. If you have met him in person you know it's true. But if you were to meet him in a movie ... well that's a different story. Check the script and ask the screenwriter if you should be suspicious of him or not. And I'm not writing anything here, that hasn't been shown in the trailer of course.But is the movie worth your time? Well that's a tough question. You might feel that it doesn't deserve to be seen, but you also might like that it doesn't exactly play as you might expect it (well not completely that is). The other thing you have to bear in mind, is that this has potential that it doesn't fully exploit. There are ideas thrown in here, that could have been really good. But it doesn't pull through. Not the best horror movie you'll see, but far from the worst too.