Charlie's Farm (2014)

"You're not planning to go there? Totally. What do you know about that place? Nothing! Stay out of there, boy.""Girl in woods" ended with the birth of an urban legend. This Australian slasher starts with one. The legend of Charlie. A disabled son who escapes from a lynching, organized by villagers. This retaliation was necessary to put an end to the violent activities of the crazy Wilson family. Murder and cannibalism were their favorite leisure activities. "Charlie's Farm" is a masterful blend of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and "Friday the 13th". Don't expect an intellectual story, of course . And the intelligence quotient of the participating characters isn't impressive. This bloody slasher meekly follows the established rules of a true slasher. I was just wondering if the massacres in terms of originality would rise above average. Indeed, they did in a way.The recipe for a slasher movie is as simple as the simple-minded who appear in it. Take a gang of youths with not enough brain cells, who still continue with their stupid initiative despite multiple warnings. Next you come up with a destructive and inhuman creature out of the past who's hiding in the area where those stupid morons are heading for. That's it. You have all the ingredients to create a slasher. The mindless company is led by Jason (Dean Kirkright) and Mick (Sam Coward), also named "Donkey" because of the size of a particular body-part where, according to another legend, most brain cells of a male are hidden. The company is completed by Natasha (Tara Reid) and Melanie (Allira Jaques). Traditionally, the characteristics of the females are totally opposite. Natasha is the cautious type, while Melanie is the adventurous and naive girl. Obviously their feminine curves are proportionally balanced, so that even a widescreen viewer is presented with a richly filled image.The subsequent course of the film can be summarized as follows. First there's an introduction of the future victims, using nimble and uninteresting conversations in such a way that they look amiable. After the announcement of their ultimate plan, you get to handle some flashbacks with relevant background information. The road to their destination is littered with individuals who are trying to persuade them to abandon their plan. Fruitless attempts as always. Usually other random fellow sufferers arrive coincidentally and join the group (here a couple suddenly pops up out of nowhere). And after this it's just patiently waiting until the presumed legend appears. From that moment on it's simply guessing who'll be the first victim that'll be chopped into pieces by Charlie and who'll be the lucky one to get away scot-free.Thus we have dealt with the chapter "content relevancy". This part is negligible (as usual). What remains are the massacres and the central character who's responsible for this. And to be honest, this was the shortest part of the film, but also the most entertaining part. Charlie is impressive and frightening at the same time. He behaves like a human meat grinder. And without hesitation he'll stab his absurdly large knife into a victim who gets in his way. The massacre is bloody and merciless. The most grotesque killing is that of "Donkey". On the one hand it looked terribly painful and on the other hand it was such an absurd, comic situation, I spontaneously started to laugh. Charlie himself (played by Nathan Jones, former WWA) is an imposing, hideous-looking character. A retarded serial killer with a demonic grin. Unscrupulously he turns somebody inside out, so he can use him later for dinner. The used effects look professional and successful. Physically Charlie looks really creepy (although there were some moments when it looked rubbery). You can expect some gore fragments with several liters of blood being used. And a gloomy environment similar to the basement of the Sawyer family."Charlie's Farm" is not such an impressive or original film. And of course it's without depth. The intention of the film is also to be meaningless and will purely focus on the senseless and morbid killings. Fans of this genre will therefore enjoy this film and appreciate a sequel. One thing I must admit. I wasn't expecting such a dark denouement. More reviews here : http://bit.ly/1KIdQMT

If you are a horror buff you will surely have seen a film like this. The genre is identifiably American, but in recent years the Australians have started making them, low budget, and in this case lowest common denominator. Two couples decide to spend a weekend at a haunted farm, at least the guys do, the girls having been kept blissfully ignorant until they are warned off by the natives. Rather than turn around and head straight back, they proceed, and are shortly joined by another couple. The ghost is all too terrestrial, he is the imbecile son of the former inhabitants, whose speciality was serial murder and cannibalism. He has been living feral for the past three decades, and as you have probably sussed, is not very friendly. The only question is, how many of them will he kill? There are a few gory special effects herein, but there is no plot as such, and if you have better things to do, like watching paint dry, you won't miss anything if you don't watch it right to the very end. Or even half way through.

If you're stepping into this territory, you gotta know what you're in for. Welcome to a slasher B-movie! That sums up the whole thing.The movie is short if you compare it with today's standards; and, for a short movie, I think the storyline got kinda messed up. It seems like they took too long trying to put the audience up to the facts, but then they realized that they had only a short time to start making things happen and so they rushed the finale in. When the storyline gets real, it's already the end of the movie.I'm not saying that's a terrible thing. I mean, c'mon! Halloween (1978) did the same thing and it's considered a classic! What I'm saying is that this movie is for those that enjoy a slow paced movie. Storyline is given to you without rush. Only thing, though, that got rushed was the ending.The villain was OK, generic, but rather fine. I think they could've put more work into it. He's no personality whatsoever and often you'll be agreeing with the townspeople about him being a retard. At first, I thought he was not, but when you're introduced properly to him, you get the point straight up.I can't say this movie is worth watching, by any means. It's bland and shallow. Though, for its short length, I'd say you wouldn't be losing too much for watching it. It's just another slasher B-movie. Nothing to it.

"Charlie's Farm" could have been a modern-day classic. Undoubtedly designed to take advantage of the increased interest in Australian Horror movies created by "Wolf Creek" the makers have chosen a less cerebral, slasher path here and have come up with a pretty gory film. The storyline is flimsy (pure clichéd slasher movie contents including the clueless pretty blondes and their dickhead boyfriends, locals who tell them "don't go there!", even a campfire scene for telling scary stories, and, of course, gore, gore and even more gore..) and while Bill Moseley shone as Charlie's demented dad, the rest of the cast at best struggled with the task at hand (especially the totally underwhelming performance from Tara Reid - one of the "Home and away" kids could have done better). The effects were delightfully amateurish and I'd love to know how much fake blood they went through!But where the movie fell over was Charlie; his grotesqueness and size was so exaggerated it was funny. In fact when Melanie is running away from Charlie I'm sure she is laughing, not screaming in fear. Whichever way, it was a good watch and my partner and I still laugh about it.