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Title: Left for Dead (2008) Starring: Maria Alche, Andres Bagg, Victoria Maurette, Mariana Seligman, and Javier De La Vega Director: Albert Pyun Rating: R (Restricted) Runtime: 87 minutes Avg. Score: 3 Submit Comment Hits: 6

Review of Left for Dead

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• Posted on 2008-03-31
  This movie is way too bad for even one star!
  
  I read here where one other reviewer actually made it to 50 minutes before giving up on this 'movie!' Me, I hit the eject button somewhere around 23 minutes and still felt stupid for watching that much of it. The women are ugly, the soudtrack should only be listened to by the deaf, the dialogue is tortured, the acting ability somewhere between high school and jr. college drama club and the ridiculously stupid freeze frames make me want to track down the director and gut shoot him so he suffers as much as I did and you will if you buy or even rent this movie.
  
  If you still do rent or buy this movie remember this: You were warned!
  
  I am also disappointed that Amazon doesn't allow less than one star for rating movies because there is NO way this movie deservres even one star!
  Score: 1
• Posted on 2008-03-20
  Very Indi Western Horror
  
  The other critics may be right as I found this film a bit klunky through its graphic design defying crediits and on into scenes that seemed very low budget; and then I began to enjoy the film and even adore its style and panach. This flick is worth a look. I'll watch it many times. The dubbing accents are something else as the pretty lead lady sounds like "Scarlett O'Eastwood" and the effects good enough (Cheese but good) for this beyond MTV edited, Chics with Guns, B-film. Don't miss out on this "to become cult movie." My copy from Amazon is the real deal. I like it.
  Score: 5
• Posted on 2008-03-20
  "Left for Dumb" or "Best Leave This One Alone"
  
  While it doesn't surprise me that awful movies like this get made (I guess high school kids need hobbies too), it does amaze me that they somehow get distributed. Having never made a movie myself, I now take great comfort in knowing that if I ever decide to take up movie making as a hobby, ANYBODY can now make one. Thank God for NetFlix! I would have been REALLY peeved if I had purchased this turd and wasn't able to get my money back. I mean it looked interesting enough as a Western/horror movie, but the DVD cover is the most exciting thing about "Left for Dead". The style of this movie is unlike anything I've ever seen, and that's not a good thing. The filmmaker thought it might be a neat idea to insert a freeze frame at the end of the scenes...every scene. I don't know if this was done for dramatic effect or to make the movie last longer. If you remove all of the freeze frames, you could probably whittle this mess down to a solid 45 minutes.
  
  In all fairness, I only made it about 50 minutes into the movie, so the rest of the film might very well be brilliant, but I'll never know. All I know is that an hour of my life is now gone, and so one star is far too kind.
  
  Oh yeah, the story. A bunch of European looking prostitutes in an old Mexican mining town freak out and kill everybody (pre-movie storyline). The town preacher sells his soul in the hope of one day having revenge on the evil prostitutes. Yup. I guess the fact that the crazy prostitutes aren't a bunch of naked hotties is uncharacteristic for a movie like this. This movie (or at least the first 50 agonizing minutes) had no nudity, which is fine because the last thing I want to see is a bunch of naked sea-hags running around.
  The movie begins 15 years after the prostitutes killing spree and goes downhill from there. There's something about a jilted lover and the pregnant daughter of the prostitute leader. I won't go into detail, because even though this was probably the worst movie I've ever seen, I don't like to give away spoilers. If you want to know more about this movie, you must suffer like I did and watch it.
  
  The other reviews give this movie 5 stars. Don't believe a single one of those reviews!! There is NO WAY that anybody could give this thing 5 stars!! Though the other reviewers say they are not the makers of the movie, there's a good chance they are probably the director's proud parents. Some bad movies are fun to watch and this is not one of them. Bad acting, bad script, bad effects, and dumb story don't equal good B-movie. This movie is no Plan 9 From Outer Space and will NEVER be a classic, despite what its own marketing claims.
  If you must watch this movie, do so at your own risk and rent it...but you've been warned.
  (This movie was so bad that I was compelled to write this review from my cell phone.)
  Score: 1
• Posted on 2008-03-09
  Wow
  
  What a beautiful little horror picture. I am a huge horror buff and i have seen them all but i was so surprised how good this was. It is a western take on a slasher film but with real believable characters. No horny teens here. It says on the cover it is like Saw, but if you hate Saw don't worry it is nothing like Saw. The acting was way above average and i am actually surprised this got no theartre release as it looks great. Go see this i was truly blown away. And no I did not help make this film.
  Score: 5