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- 2014
- Unrated
- IFC Midnight
- 1 h 20 m
- 2014
- Unrated
- IFC Midnight
- 1 h 20 m
Summary A quiet night on the outskirts of a small town in Maine is interrupted when Seth (Graham Skipper) witnesses his best friend Mark (Josh Ethier) vanish in a brilliant flash of blue light. Two years later, Seth is still dealing with the fallout from the freaky incident, amid local suspicion that he is to blame for his friend's disappearance...
- 2014
- Unrated
- IFC Midnight
- 1 h 20 m
- 2014
- Unrated
- IFC Midnight
- 1 h 20 m
Almost Human
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4.3
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Summary A quiet night on the outskirts of a small town in Maine is interrupted when Seth (Graham Skipper) witnesses his best friend Mark (Josh Ethier) vanish in a brilliant flash of blue light. Two years later, Seth is still dealing with the fallout from the freaky incident, amid local suspicion that he is to blame for his friend's disappearance...
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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0% Positive
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100% Mixed
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0% Negative
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While the cast and crew's competence well exceed what anyone would expect from this breed of B movies, they cannot compensate for the flawed internal logic in the screenplay.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 User Ratings
4.3
29% Positive
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29% Mixed
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43% Negative
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User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 User Ratings
4.3
29% Positive
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
29% Mixed
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
43% Negative
3 Ratings
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Heart is in the right place, but still this movie is just terrible. Even the old school gore effects just feel tacked on and deliberate. And as old school as it wants to be, it looks just a like a low budget straight to video pic of today (shaky cam and ADD editing).
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In this blood-splattered wasteland, neither original ideas nor acting skills flourish.
With acting this wooden even among those not playing zombies, though one at least attempts a rural Maine accent, the suspense lies less in who will die than in how grisly the means.
In the end, there just isn’t much of a movie here; Almost Human clocks in at a mere 76 minutes, and that includes what may well be the slowest end-credits crawl in cinema history.
More casual fans are advised to wait a movie or two and see if Begos can do anything new with the idiom he knows so well.
Rauschebart Mark verschwindet in einem Lichtstrahl und taucht zwei Jahre später nackt im Wald wieder auf. Was passiert ist, erzählt Almost Human nicht. Fest steht: Mark ist neuerdings sauböse und schlachtet mit Axt und Schrotgewehr die Kellnerinnen und Holzfäller seiner Kleinstadt ab. Spätestens als der charmante Mützenträger jedoch einen ekligen Wurm ausfährt, seine Nachbarn zu Kokons penetriert und hochfrequentiert kreischt, klingelt es: Almost Human ist nicht Falling Down, sondern eher Angriff der Körperfresser. Das Zeug zum Klassiker fehlt Joe Begos’ Sci-Fi-Horrorfilm aber: Die Akteure sind mies, die Inszenierung plump: So untermalt nahezu jeder Tod derselbe Störsound. Als schließlich selbst Kamerazooms und Kopfdreher schrille Streicher begleiten, mutiert Almost Human von vorhersehbar zu lächerlich.
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If you think Scanners or Fire in the Sky then you're thinking good. If you like good look elsewhere as this is as a far from good as you can get. The script is dreadful and offers major flaws throughout, story line is thin at best and the acting, with a couple of exceptions is up there with one of the best examples of utter drivel that I have come across in nearly 30 years of enjoying movies. That said it still makes The Blare Witch Project look like a cinematic masterpiece.
Avoid this at all costs, utterly dreadful stuff I am sorry to say.
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Almost Human is desperately trying to be a spin off of "Fire in the Sky". Nevertheless the movie fails and just turns out to be a disappointing horror film that isn't just scary! If a horror movie fails to be perfect, it should at least scare the hell out of me, in this film, it is not scary.
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Production Company
Channel 83 Films,
Ambrosino / Delmenico
Release Date Feb 21, 2014
Duration 1 h 20 m
Rating Unrated
Tagline An unspeakable horror has come home.
Awards
iHorror Awards
• 1 Nomination
