Fearmakers (2008)

There are many insane people living outside of psychiatric clinics. As a matter of fact, it is even the trend today to let them live in community as long as they do not harm their environment. However, with "art" it is a bit different than it is with everyday's activities. Max Bense had already attacked Joseph Buys in the 50ies making it clear that the slaughtering of a pig has nothing to do with art. And this was before Godard's infamous film. Nevertheless, the second law of thermodynamics predicts the chaotic state as the more natural state than the ordered one. Therefore, it should not really astonish that movies with an "entropic" understanding of what is art, are in the majority. However, living in a democracy, it seems to be a price that one has to pay that the lowest-level nonsense can be sold as art.Another point, however, it is, that by such movies like "Fearmakers", a whole country like Germany gets into a bad reputation. On the international market, the new releases from Germany are mainly about "Vergangenheitsbewältigung", i.e. the innumerable Anti-Nazi- and Anti-Stasi movies, followed by Gay movies, and then by trash movies like one to comment here. Nazi-Stasi-Gay-Trash - every American must think that this Tetrad is what Germany produces today, and people like Rose are responsible for this thrash-image Germany gets. The reality look quite different, but obviously, it is easier to reach the international market with pseudo-art than with real art. At the same time, where hundreds of movies from Germany's past are still waiting to be finally released on international DVD - fine, old works who could stand the competition of their foreign concurrence - what one gets in the US is the garbage of Rose and his brothers in the "spirit". "Fearmakers" is not even German, it is 90% English. There are German actors whose German is hardly understandable, full of elementary mistakes. Such elaborates like "Fearmakers" are mental polluting of the environment.

I really liked Barricade, from the same director (the German Timo Rose), and when Fearmakers finally was released, i was expecting another good mix of ultra-gore with good directing and great fxs like Barricade, but... Fearmakers is like a German gory remake of Ringu or one of those oriental ghost movies that were so popular a few years ago. That can sound at least "funny" but its not. This movie is a waste of time and money, and a waste of talent because Timo Rose can make much better. The plot and the acting here is abysmal, and there isn't so much blood and gore to make us forget all the wrong things in this movie. No, unfortunately this ain't that bloody too. The only good thing about this movie are the FX, thats all. Its not worth at all and i wrote good reviews of movies like Gorotica, Nikos the impaler, Sadomaster and Zombie la creazione. So I'm not very demanding with this kind of movies. 3/10

OK, to truly appreciate this movie you have to consider the work that Tom (Joe Davison) and Sammy (Timo Rose) do to be logical in the first place.If you do, then it is a sure bet that you are a fan of "Ghost Hunters." If not, then the characters of Tom and Sammy are just out there and a couple of ridiculous nerds. Funny? Not really, just strange.All this about a "revenge spirit" and dreams is just a frame for a good old fashioned mystery about the death of Sarah's (Debbie Rochon) sister. Debbie was, of course, her usual great self, even if she had a horrible script to work with. She did her best, man.Blood and gore was good, and, of course, there is the gratuitous flash of Debbie as she steps out of the shower. That alone is worth watching the flick for, in my humble opinion.

Terrible, unwatchable and ridiculous comes to mind when describing whatever Fearmakers was supposed to be.The editing was a catastrophe. Half of the 'effects' seem to be done in Microsoft (TM) Paint...I kid you not. However they managed the rest was just as awful.There are seemingly unending minutes of filming just for the sake of filling the time. Scenes that are pointless, repetitive flashbacks, over and over.They should have just released this on YouTube (TM), even if abandoned there, it is still unable to be classified as a 'movie'. If you pay money to see this, you would have been more fulfilled buying a package of toilet paper.This isn't a movie, it's simply garbage and the ending sentiments echo what you might say to everyone involved in Fearmakers.