Aunt Rose (2005)

Not even bad in a good way

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Aunt Rose, everyone's sweet old aunt that is just a bit mysterious and creepy. Sick and bedridden, poor Aunt Rose appears to be on her deathbed, waiting for the reaper to come and take her away. But this poor old lady has secrets that no one can explain, not even the writer or director or the plot for that matter. She's got powers. She can bring the dead back to life, but it takes away a part of her life when she does it. She can even disappear at will (that was never explained either).Anyway, a trio of "wanna be" thugs (boyfriend, girlfriend, mutual friend) need a place to hide out for a crime they committed. Well, it just so happens they choose the wrong house. No one messes with Aunt Rose's family. So while this trio of thugs invade the home and take over, weird things begin to happen. Family members are killed and then brought back to life by sweet, creepy old Aunt Rose to get revenge on the thugs. One by one they all eventually pay the highest price for their deeds.I had fun with this film. I love B-Horror movies, and this is just that. Take it for what it's worth and nothing more. Is it cheesy? Yes, but so are most B-Horror films. If you're looking for a good cheesy horror movie with some laughs, then look no further than Aunt Rose.

For those of you like me, who feel even R rated horror is to commercial, then Aunt rose is the film for you. Every single cast member delivers an excellent on the money performance, which is rare for a low budget movie featuring several newcomers. The thugs who invade the house and torture the poor family are made up of the leader Johnny Nelson who was very intimidating and believable, the crazy but sexy Velocity Chyaldd, and the misguided, but slightly more level headed Kevin T. Collins. What this movie does that so few ever touch upon, is giving a history of these villains, to show there troubled, abusive pasts, and how they came to be the sick sadistic monsters you see before you. The mother and father were also very realistic, they portray the family as loving, but also estranged somewhat with there teenage daughters life choices. When the family is taken hostage, you feel there desperation every step of the way, and root for them to come through it intact. The film is not quite as gory as I thought it would be, but the kills are very nasty, and cruel, and have a surprising impact on the audience. I must also mention Raine Brown who played the daughter's lesbian lover, in an excellent, and oddly non exploitive way. Keep an eye out for her, I predict she'll become a new genre staple alongside my personal favorite scream queens Debbie Rochon, and Tiffany Shepis. My only beefs with the film are as follows, for one I found in a few instances that some of the family members foolishly taunted, or provoked the murderers for no direct reason. I guess you don't know how a person would react to an invasion like that, but I just found myself questioning what the heck they were thinking. It kept me on the edge of my seat though, and made me think about what I would do, so maybe thats not such a bad thing. And finally, I felt the ending wasn't totally satisfying. Without spoiling anything, I just felt it lacked the impact it needed. A couple very minor instances aside, I highly recommend Aunt Rose to the hardcore horror crowd. It's one of the better acted low budget horrors I've seen in some time.

I knew nothing about this movie when I watched it and thought the cover looked good; old scary lady, typical of a horror movie but oh well, I gave it a go. The opening scene set up a mood for a somewhat of a lame script, the main female character who had an attitude problem, and the movie being full of gore.The main part of the movie that stuck with me was the breasts of Robin. Other than that fact, the movie was enjoyable if you watch it with buddies, so that you can say how lame the lines were or how bad the acting was.Overall, the character development lacked entirely. Aunt Rose; who was she? Why was she like she was? Only until the end the whole blood out of her mouth came to life, making the dead father alive. If you accept it for what it was and don't question what or why something happened, you'll be doing better than I was. I always wondered why Aunt Rose could bring people back to life.. it made no sense at all.I think the movie focused too much on the three bad guys too much, over looking any other characters; I don't care about some guy going into a pet shop to get "money for his wedding" nor about the stupid blonde stripper, or as she wanted to be called, exotic dancer.There was no reason or direction behind aunt Rose, and her son at the end, that ugly masked looking guy, had no reason to be there. Again it left me with questions, why..what and how. The ending itself I was left very disappointed; we finally see what was making those dumb noises out the window and it only lasted for a few seconds! Over all, aside from the gore in the movie and one of the last scenes where Mr. Tough guy vomits out his guys after his "dark soul" has been taken by Aunt Rose, which was again a really undeveloped idea, the only memorable scenes was the two females kissing, the breasts everywhere and when the blonde exotic dancer finally shut up.The characters in this movie I could not stand; again the blonde stripper who would never shut up..and she deserved what she got, Aunt Rose being overly freaky and trying too hard to sound like Darth Vader and the "tony" girl sounding like a robotic cross dresser.Unless you switch your brain off, watch it like a droid and don't think too much into it, the movie would be okay at best. Other than that, I would try not to go near it and look for another movie which has less annoying characters, a better plot and a movie which has some form of logic in it.

I don't know what that other reviewer was smoking, but this movie is not just bad, it's dreadful. I have watched possibly every low-rent, low-budget horror movie that has ever been produced, and this ranks among the worst. It was only out of a sort of train wreck curiosity that I continued watching this movie after the first five minutes. The acting is awful, just completely rank in the most amateurish fashion... not to mention being subject to seeing a very unattractive woman expose herself to the camera. Look, I realize that overseas markets really go for breasts, but let's be honest here -- do we really want to see that? The entire film is just a disaster, from start to finish. It's amusing enough for the completely D grade cheesiness of it, but if you're looking for a good horror movie, this just doesn't measure up in any way, shape, or form.