This is a horribly incoherent film, and it has way too much plaid (way too much), but the stop motion monsters are fun to watch.
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I've seen movies like this before with extremely bad editing and that are incoherent. Jaws 4 and Dead or Alive are some good examples, but they may not be this bad. Anyways, good review on the movie.
Though something caught my attention, there is no Buy It label at the top of the review like usual. Is the movie only available through the Winterbeast website? Speaking of which, if it is only available through that site, how did you come across it?
Despite how awful this movie looks, I feel I need to see it. It reminds me of The Crater Lake Monster, which wasn't so incoherent, but had similar stop animation. :teddyr:
The creature from the 2nd image looks like a low-tech wooden GIR from Invader Zim...
:^)
Is it possible to buy this movie anywhere? There's no link to Amazon like a lot of your reviews.
I need a new bad movie to watch, and this sounds pretty bad.
OK, I found where to buy it.
Here's the link.
http://www.winterbeast.com/2009_002.htm
QuoteEDIT BY ANDREW: Just correcting the link.
Oh, very cool, it's just 7.99, shipping seems to be free.
They use Paypal.
The video clip made me put this on the top of my Netflix list. I love stop motion, but the plaid scares me. I'll have to get back to you if my head survives the plaid.
QuoteFollowing a bizarre nightmare that involves a rotting friend and a wiggly monster
:bouncegiggle: :teddyr:
I think you must have a Webcam on me when I'm sleeping, Andrew. :teddyr: :thumbup:
Quote from: InformationGeek on May 17, 2009, 10:20:39 AM
Though something caught my attention, there is no Buy It label at the top of the review like usual. Is the movie only available through the Winterbeast website? Speaking of which, if it is only available through that site, how did you come across it?
Writer and director Christopher Thies contacted me about the film. I still do not accept screeners, but I ordered a copy from the site since it interested me. After watching it, the need to write a review finally became overwhelming.
Quote from: Earthbound_X on May 18, 2009, 07:56:41 PM
Is it possible to buy this movie anywhere? There's no link to Amazon like a lot of your reviews.
For independent films like this I place a link at the bottom of the review (if the film is available).
Quote from: bryan on May 19, 2009, 01:32:40 AM
The video clip made me put this on the top of my Netflix list. I love stop motion, but the plaid scares me. I'll have to get back to you if my head survives the plaid.
It's a whole lot of plaid.
Wow...Andrew Borntreger : Marine, B-movie reviewer, masochist...a man among men.
Andrew: Oh, Man, I am so in for this film. It sounds right up my alley. Plus, you have to love a character that becomes a park ranger (normally a noble pursuit) so that he can score chicks. I can only repeat: I am so in!
Thanks to Earthbound for supplying a buyer's link.
Great review! I even love the fact that it was basically unfinished. -- Mykal
Well, they got my money, and, in a bad movie way, it was worth every penny.
It looks like they shot this thing over a ten year period, with characters aging drastically from shot to shot. Just how many different fake mustaches did that ranger wear, anyway?
The short bits of animation are the highlights, but all the creatures seem to suffer from some neurological defect that makes them wiggle their heads and wave their arms constantly. At least the monsters don't wear plaid.
Very little of this makes any sense (ex. why did the weird lodge owner have those PSYCHO-ish coprses all over the house, and why did he don that clown mask and dance around? Why did nobody in town seem to notice the giant chicken monster flopping down the main drag? And what happened to all the ani-monsters anyway?), but learning they never finished the thing explains a lot, I guess.
That random, disjointed animation clip has got to be one of the most unintentionally terrifying things that I've ever seen! Creepy stuff, I really need to see the rest of those weird critters.
A friend of mine got in Winterbeast thias past weekend and we suffered through it on Memorial Day.
In addition to not being able to figure out what in the hell was going on for the duration of the movie, the "acting" made me want to go to sleep.
The fun and crappy stop motion animation is what saves me from giving this movie a complete rock bottom rating. Too bad there wasn't a whole lot more of it.
And all of that plaid, my god, the plaid...............
Quote from: Torgo on May 26, 2009, 10:13:29 PM
And all of that plaid, my god, the plaid...............
You noticed it too?
Quote from: Mykal Banta on May 21, 2009, 09:28:44 AM
Andrew: Oh, Man, I am so in for this film. It sounds right up my alley. Plus, you have to love a character that becomes a park ranger (normally a noble pursuit) so that he can score chicks. I can only repeat: I am so in!
Thanks to Earthbound for supplying a buyer's link.
Great review! I even love the fact that it was basically unfinished. -- Mykal
If you hunt this down, I'd love to hear your thoughts. It's really, really bad and confusing. With a group of friends who like to goof around while watching bad movies it could be a lot of fun.
Quote from: Raffine on May 23, 2009, 11:13:20 AM
The short bits of animation are the highlights, but all the creatures seem to suffer from some neurological defect that makes them wiggle their heads and wave their arms constantly. At least the monsters don't wear plaid.
Quote from: Torgo on May 26, 2009, 10:13:29 PM
The fun and crappy stop motion animation is what saves me from giving this movie a complete rock bottom rating. Too bad there wasn't a whole lot more of it.
There was quite a bit more of it than I would expect from such a low-budget film that was never actually finished. I liked the silly stop motion critters!
The monster reaching into the house looks like the peperami animal!
Just read your review of Winterbeast, and it's got me hankerin to find this one and watch it. As bad movies go, this one looks freakin' awesome! :bouncegiggle:
Just watched the randam video clip, when the rock climber gets it. LOLOL--did that monster just THROW GANG SIGNS?!?! :buggedout:
I particularly liked the part where the stop motion tree type creature took the clay version of the topless chick and "slammed" her against the side of the cabin. That and when the older guy who looked like equal parts Malcolm McDowell and Timothy Leary had that mask on and was dancing around the corpses.
Quote from: Torgo on June 05, 2009, 09:15:39 AM
I particularly liked the part where the stop motion tree type creature took the clay version of the topless chick and "slammed" her against the side of the cabin.
I listened to a bit of the commentary and they said that later that day she appeared in almost the same 'topless screaming victim' scene for another movie.
Bet THEY didn't have a wiggly peperami animal monster, though!
Sweet merciful barrel of funky monkeys! You are correct, forewarned is nowhere near helpful! Though I have to say, there is one thing worse than the plaid- the lodge owner's ubiquitous deranged smile. I may have nightmares about that. The mask towards the end was an improvement.
I agree, I wish they had more of the critters. Especially if they danced pimp-tree-alien style like from the clip. I expected the deer heads to start laughing a la "Evil Dead 2" style. Wow, just wow. We're talking "Game over, man!" wow. This is the weirdest thing I've seen since "The Seventh Curse".
Good review. There's no way I can write my own review now because I can not think of a better way to try and explain this alphabet soup of 'scenes' without massively borrowing/ripping you off. Here will be my review- "Go see Andrew. [url]"
:thumbup: (for the review)
I just found out that my buddy Chris was the Winter Beast. He even has a movie poster. I'm going to buy a copy right now.