Part of the 2008 After Dark Horror Fest, Disturbed is a low quality, horridly acted, atrociously written badly shot film, that still managed to keep me interested.
The story revolves around an escaped psycho convict named Charles Mason (har har) who is taking out vengeance on those who put him away. Mason does a few dirty deeds and then sets his focus on the family of a senator who had a hand in locking him up.
The Senator and his wife are away on vacation so that leaves Mason to hunt down the Senators 3 children.
Now then, the oldest daughter is the films lead and is a passable actress who is smoking hot and always dressed as a hottie should be. She looks about 16 but is playing older, and looks ridiculous playing a real estate agent.
She's taking care of her younger sister who may or may not be retarded, it's very hard to tell. The girl playing her is god awful either way.
The 3rd sibling is the teenage brother who is both a bad actor, and hard to look at.
Ok then, lot's of stupidity in this here film, just a ton of little things that are so so bad.
"Rapes" occur, but underwear remain on, There is apparently one cop in all of the county, and a dispatcher to tell him what to do. The medical examiner shows up at a crime scene with full on lab coat and stethoscope. Awesome. Wonderfully bad acting by the boyfriend of a dead girl. The medical examiner holding up a baggie with a body part in it, outside the house a murder occurred in, surrounded by people, and making exclamations. The best is when the kids have a party, one of the party goers sees a man upstairs and when he's doubted he just argues about it, then goes home.
There's a nice couple of minutes where we get to see the brother do karate, that's it, just watch him in his karate class. Which is better than the next scene where he attempts to act.
So ok, people related to the case are dyeing all over, and the Senator instead of coming home from vacation, leaves a message on the answering machine telling his daughter that Mason escaped and to take care of the family until he can get a flight tomorrow.
This is the problem, the story is way too big and convoluted for what really amounts to a student film. The exquisite story adds nothing to the film and opens up so much to detract from it, for no good reason.
There's a great scene where the brother and his girlfriend finish having sex, and she goes out to get beer. Now she's laying there under a sheet and get attacked by the crazy guy. Right as she screams we cut to a scene of the 2 sisters dancing in a closet with bunny ears on and loud music blaring. Kind of surreal in a bad movie device sort of way. As she's getting the attacked the poor girlfriend can't decide whether she wants to be chopped up or expose her titties, as she holds that sheet tight to her boobs in the guise of fighting off an attack. Either cast a bitch who'll get naked or do the fucking scene differently, it's fucking movie 101 here.
Holy shit. Now, this scene may not be for everyone but i can't describe it cause it's a bit of a spoiler but if you know me you can almost guess what kind of scene it is that I would find so awesome.
Crap, now it gets weird because as obviously PG as the film has sauntered around being,
it suddenly gets very graphic which is just a complete 180 and very bizarre. I mean, it's like a Lifetime movie broke out in the middle of Friday The 13th.
But this film is just too damn silly for all of the dramatics to work on any level. Add in tech and metal music whenever there's supposed to be tension and it just completely ruins any chance of the scene working.
Oh man, the final 20 minutes of the movie are so horrendous, it really is what I imagine a bunch of 10 year olds trying to recreate I Know What You Did Last Summer would look like.
OMG, we find out in one of the most amazing moments in film history why we focused on the brother at karate class earlier in the film. Paramedics show up, and despite multiple stab wounds to multiple people, they put on a blood pressure strap and start taking peoples pulses. No urgency, just holding their wrists, checking pulses.
I need to stop riffing as it's repetitive. Ok, let's just say that despite me grading this movie so badly, it's a must see for how awful it is, but not in a funny way if that makes any sense. It's just super bad and pathetic film making that has to be observed just based on how god awful it is.
I've liked and disliked some of the ADHF films and some have been low rent, but none have been this horrendous and I hope it's a one time only thing. This shit is below film school level on every level of movie making and acting. But still, watch it.
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