Amusement (2009)

That was an excellent one.

Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

I didn't know what expect from this.I thought it was decent movie, I liked some of the sub plots of it.And they all come together.I liked the start of, when a young couple Drive and there twist and turns in those scenes, which really surprised me at the time.Liked scene with Clown , thought it was so-what creepy but very predicable.The rest of it, I can't remember much, only watched last night, Some parts of the movie are very forgettable.The acting was decent, compare to the last movie I saw.5 our of 10

Amusement is a mediocre horror/thriller movie about a psychopath that stalks three girls that he went to school with. Sounds familiar? This is basically the premise of a mediocre slasher from the 80's combined with torture porn (Without any of the bloodshed).The strong point of the movie is that the killer does a decent job portraying a madman. However the downsides include bad acting from the rest of the crew. The movie plays out like an anthology series before reaching the climax at the end where all three girls are trapped with the madman.In typical fashion the killer is an idiot and the victims are equally stupid. During one scene in the end you more or less find yourself almost rooting for the killer to catch them all since they are so stupid.The first segment starts out good with a truck driver that has something to hide. The second episode is pretty bad, it was a dead give away from the start since you by now know its in the anthology format. The third segment was also sadly obvious. There is a huge chunk of the movie that remains unexplained, but that might be good because it saved me another 30 minutes of this movie.I think that the biggest problem for this movie that it's just mediocre. It takes itself serious but do not deliver what you want from a slasher movie. The body count and deaths are all bad. There is no decent gore or anything.This is just a waste of time. I am just glad that i did catch it on TV and did not pay a dime to watch this. With another cast and a change of format it might have something worth the time, but this did not work at all in anthology format.

As Horror films go, especially in the last decade, this film is surprisingly good. Its not great but a solid horror film that will make your girl hold you close while on the couch. I actually like the way Mr Simpson told the story. Building the suspense only to not show what happens because the end is where everything is tied together. I thought the performances were good, although the bad guy could have been better cast. I would like to have seen more blood through out and he missed something that just about all good horror films have, boobs. Some good places to insert them but didn't. In the end though, I was pleasantly surprised with the story. A little something different. I would like to have seen the way it all came about when they were kids played out a bit more but that is me. Overall the film is well made and shot very well. The cinematography and set design are top notch as low budget horror films go. At 6 mil though, i think they could have stretched for a better bad guy and blood. Still, I enjoyed it.

I was wondering around in Civic Video just to find something interesting for the night to watch: I came across this film 'Amusement' so I hired it out for the night: watched it when I got home immediately. I have to say: what a huge mistake that was. It had its up's and down's during the film (E.G: The clown in the bedroom: that was well done) and the down sides were more of a 'amusement' as I can say. It needed to be plotted out a whole lot better, it's one of those films were you confused throughout it then it makes sense during the end. A huge negative during the ending was that the girl was locked in the back of the van (couldn't get out) and she ends up driving the broken down car at the final scenes: it doesn't make sense at all. I wish it stuck to one main idea throughout the film (I would say the clown one) since it was more appealing. Shelby, not rarely Lisa as well never got any screen time throughout the film, I didn't even remember she was in it to be honest. A forgettable film, wasn't planned out enough, went too fast and it was incredibly unrealistic, 3/10.