Beyond the Wall of Sleep (2006)
Joe Slaader is a mysterious mountain man being held in the Ulster County Asylum after the brutal murder of his family. Edward Eischel, a young intern, sees something more than just an inbred monster in this new inmate, however. Instead, he sees him as the harbinger of some greater and much darker force. With bodies piling up, his job in jeopardy, and his sanity hanging in the balance he gives in to his obsession with tapping into Joe's hidden power, risking all that he has along the way.
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Good concept, poorly executed.
Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.
I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible
In other words,this film is a surreal ride.
OK. It's conceded that this movie is very low budget, cheesy to the max, and just plain bad. However, it's still worth watching, as it's got the most entertaining film director's commentary I've ever heard in my life. In fact, I'd never watched a DVD with a film commentary before I watched this one. Because of this film, I now watch film commentaries religiously.The film makers, who I think were drinking when they recorded the commentary, give spontaneous, unscripted, razor-sharp comments about the trials of independent film-making, ragging on some of their co-stars along the way. Some of their observations were so hilarious, it caused me to laugh until I had tears in my eyes. (SPOILER QUOTE FROM THE COMMENTARY: "An independent film is like a piece of poop.") If you're familiar with MST3K or Mike Nelson's Rifftrax, it's basically what the film makers did -- they riffed their own movie.Their commentary raises this from a bad, cheesy, low-budget horror film to one of the funniest comedies I've ever seen. Rating this movie a 1 star for horror and a 10 star for commentary, I give it a composite score of 6 stars, because the commentary really is that entertaining.
I love horror movies; I love even BAD horror movies.I've only said this about two movies before (see title of post) but this movie is F(_)CKING UNWATCHABLE. I literally had to FWD scenes on my DVD player just to get through (yes, just to skim) the movie. It made me want to open my eye with a socket wrench.My freshman semester of college (intro to video) work was better. I was totally fooled by the cover of the video, whoever did that cover was an AMAZING work of art :D But the movie is nothing like it.More than a waste of money, this was a waste of time, and effort. I could say more, but it would be just wasting even more time.
I love the works of Lovecraft and really enjoy it when directors adapt his stories for movies. Gordon, Yuzna, and O'Bannon, have made some fine films based on his writings, they were not always 100% faithful, but that is to be expected. Their films had gore, good acting, and humor. Beyond the Wall of Sleep, had none of this. I could not tell if it was faithful to Lovecraft's story for the quick cuts, lighting, and odd sound recording made it really difficult to watch. Now I appreciate what the director was trying to do, show the insanity as Lovecraft intends, but it made it truly unenjoyable which is sad for I was looking forward to it.
I hate a DVD box that has a cool looking scary creature on it and then you rent it and the movie turns out to be a piece of crap.This was one of those movies.I hated this movie.It was one of the worst pieces of garbage I've ever watched.I'm not really sure what the movie was about.As near as I can tell it took place in the early 1900's in an insane asylum.A patient is brought in that has a weird deformity on his back and a young intern who is doing weird experiments on patients in the basement starts experimenting on the deformed patient and that leads to chaos and havoc and death at the asylum.And also there was something about evil things happening when the patient slept and maybe a demon was living in the hump on his back.I dunno.This movie was terrible.It had bad acting,really really bad acting.And horrible writing and all during the movie there were the same pictures of dark woods and bloody meat and little kids running around flashing on the screen over and over.I don't know what it meant nor do I care.Rarely have I seen a movie that was so completely worthless and plot less and pointless as this mess.I hate everyone who had anything to do with this movie.May not a single one of them ever work in the entertainment industry again.I gave this movie a 1 only because the rating system doesn't go any lower.