HazMat (2013)

I thought this was a really good movie, for the kind it was. The actors were very natural, and the smarmy host of the 'reality' scare show was just the right amount of douche. The two girlfriends were disposable; neither one was more than a cardboard cutout stereotype of what most people believe Hispanic ladies to be. The best friend was a dick; why anyone would torment their 'best friend' like that, it's just sad. I once heard a comic say that if you make disparaging jokes about someone, it means that you really don't like them. It's a kind of passive aggression, and this 'prank' is the ultimate definition of passive aggressiveness. I liked most of the cast members, and I was really rooting for Brenda to survive. Alas, it was not meant to be. I thoroughly enjoyed the fella who played Jacob; personally, I thought he was the best of a fairly good cast. It was well-written and tightly directed. A great combination of 'found footage' and third person perspective make this a really enjoyable watch.

This wasn't too bad of a movie. Kind of a low-budget old- school horror film. I've seen so many scathing reviews on the plot, background story, and characters. How about the positives? I thought it was decently put together, like at the very end, just when you think you have it -BOOM- you're wrong again. Jacob's character WAS hyped up before it as this shady dark depressing creepy person, so you already knew it was going to happen. Semi-predictable. I will admit I was wrong in guessing what was going to happen at least three times while watching this. I will agree with the people who say it was worth a watch, but to each their own.

Jacob is a nice but rather disturbed guy who is obsessed with chemical factories, especially the one where his father was killed, he thinks it is haunted. His friend Adam puts him on a pranking TV show without realizing the harm it will do. The crew sets up in the chemical factory and scares him, but the joke backfires and soon the crew, Adam and two girls are trapped within the factory with Jacob coming for them dressed in a gas mask and wielding an ax.HazMat wasn't very scary and used excessive gore that was irrelevant to the story. The acting was pretty bad as was the soundtrack, but the plot was very original. Cross the 1997 TV movie Goosebumps Welcome to Dead House with the 1981 slasher My Bloody Valentine and you'd get something like this. It's okay to watch maybe once, but I think it could have been better. One thing I did really like was that although a chemical factory was involved, there was no dopey happy-hippie environmental message preached to us in the movie. I was rooting for Jacob throughout the film though, I mean, it's hard to feel sorry for a TV crew and group of so-called friends who decide to prank a boy in the same chemical factory where his father was killed, that's very cruel of them to do and I was hoping they'd all end up dead.

Howthe last reviewers can say "this is a classic" "Wow"? I'll never know!? Also said was "I was surprised at how well written and acted this film is"? The acting was terrible, and writing very bad. With this sort of movie the acting needs to be very good, it was bad! One or two of the actors were just about OK sometimes, otherwise BAD! I was wondering if this was the correct review for this movie or these people watched something else! Or as in many cases it seems with some reviews obviously the person was involved with the movie! I gave it 2 because the idea was OK. I'm trying to pad this review out to warn many of you to avoid it.Summary: Bad Acting, Bad Script, but not a bad idea. Don't believe the positive reviews, this is trash.