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List Price: $24.99 | | Label: Showtime Ent.
Salesrank: 72892
Released: September 25, 2007 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
When a lonely highway is inexplicably closed, five students sharing a ride to a party find themselves trapped at a deserted travel oasis. Refusing to let the new circumstances interfere with their fun, they settle in, only to be interrupted by odd, haunting visions of severely mutilated travelers – victims of a killer – a killer trailing a dark force of decay and rot. Led by a blind grad student with heightened senses, they must survive the night and confront what appears to be a terrifying abyss between the living and the dead. As the body count rises, the bizarre mystery deepens. Those strong enough to survive are left to answer the burning question: What the hell is the Reeker?
Reeker Reviews:
I'm sure someone's already made the joke, but I'm too lazy to check: Reeker reeks. 
2009-09-15 - Reeker (Dave Payne, 2005)
Unfortunately for Reeker, I didn't see nearly as many movies this week as I did last week, so it has very little competition for the worst movie I saw this week. In fact, I'd have to say it stands head and shoulders above everything else. I mean, when your big twist at the end of the movie explains everything...except for the first scene...someone obviously wasn't paying attention.
Story: a bunch of kids are going to a big music festival out in the desert (think Burning Man here). After a stop at a diner, they discover that one of their number, Trip (All In's Scott Whyte), is carrying about twenty thousand dollars' worth of stolen drugs. Gretchen (The Quarry's Tina Illman), who's driving, stops and orders Trip out of the car. When Trip can't get a signal in the desert, she agrees to drive him back to the diner to use their pay phone. When they get back, though, the diner and accompanying motel are deserted. Except, that is, for whatever it is that did very, very bad things to the family in the first scene. (It took me reading the message board to understand what that all had to do with the rest of the flick. I have to say that in general, I don't miss that sort of thing, and usually I'm the person doing the explaining. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm thinking if I didn't put the pieces together until getting outside help, most others won't either.)
As with most recent no-budget schlockfests like this one, you can count on all the basic, and clichéd, things that are supposed to make you jump. You can count on a couple of scenes of supposed levity. You can count on pedestrian camerawork, competent direction at best, and terrible acting. Reeker delivers on all counts, including having one of the dumbest names I've ever seen on a horror film. But really, the only surprise here is that someone thought this was worthwhile enough to make a sequel to it three years later. Avoid at all costs. (half)
Better than Dracula 3000 and thats not a good thing...........
2009-08-25 - **SPOILERS**
College age humans on the way to a big bash get together for a road trip and end up stuck at a deserted diner/motel in the middle of the desert(hard to believe.....).
This movie starts out in ridicules fashion with a mom driving her husband and son driving through the desert and the mom hits a deer standing in the middle of the road. Someone then throws a bucket of fake blood all over the windshield as they show a very poor imitation prop deer fall to the side of the road dead. Now that the mom cannot see anything at all after just hitting an animal does she hit the brakes and pull over? No, she actually speeds up while the son is screaming his a$$ off and attempts to get the `blood' off by using the windshield wipers. Oh btw, the husband is just now waking up (heavy sleeper).
After this fast paced opening the movie basically comes to a halt for the next hour. Don't know why the director decided to do this but if it was for character buildup, he was not successful. During the last 30 minutes we start to get some action but some of it is hard to understand. The `reeker' smells really bad when he comes to get you so they show these cheesy wavy lines that show that it does indeed 'reek' in the scene after the bad actors are already impersonating a cough and facial movements to let you know it smells. He seems to float around and actually jump time and space when they show him moving to and from victims, shooting him doesn't work but if you stick him with a shovel that does hurt him. Like I said he seems to float but in another instance he is on the top of the victim's car and by braking he is affected by gravity and falls off the car only to get run over. These are not things that I usually care to much about but I would like some consistency.
The ending is graced with a little twist that I actually thought was kind of left up to us to decipher. Were they dead the whole time? Were they in limbo? I dont know but it didn't work. They did not explain how everyone who was in the movie had died was part of this `dream' but yet there were 2 survivors-how were they in this `dream/limbo'with the dead people?
I was expecting a `B' movie of course so I gave it plenty of slack but this is just plain bad. My 11 year old who loves horror said `this is boring' and my 9 year old stated `yea, but it's not as bad as Dracula 3000'.I guess if you are familiar with that movie then you know where this one ranks!!-do not buy, catch it on cable and that's only if you need to fall asleep.
odd... very odd 
2009-08-12 - Reeker is quite the unique horror flick.
It's not scary at all, the acting is pretty bad all around, the characters are completely uninteresting, the suspense build-up misses the mark completely... and yet I don't hate the movie.
I can't explain it. It's a real mystery why I'm giving this movie as high of a rating as I am. It probably deserves a lower rating.
Something about the low budget feel of the entire movie sort of works in its favor instead of against it. It's like the movie isn't trying to be the scariest movie ever, and it knows its using all the same cliches other similar types of movies have been using for years, and it just rolls along at a nice enough pace to keep you guessing.
The storyline might be the one thing that saves it above everything else. Five people stranded at a small gas station in the middle of the desert where some rather odd things have been taking place there.
Strangely appealing is the best way to describe this one.
OOO OOO THAT SMELL! CAN'T YA SMELL THAT SMELL? 1 1/2 STARS!
2009-05-16 - After a promising opening, this film turns into another mindless horror film that is riddled with cliché's and even steals it's ending from another movie! The characters are stamped out of a cookie cutter mold and you'll have to be careful of splinters with all that wooden dialogue.
Reeker doesnt reek 
2009-03-19 - Reeker is a very good and intelligent horror movie. It follows the usual storyline for the genre; five teenages are stranded in the middle of nowhere and they are being killed off one-by-one.
Five teenagers drive into the desert headed for a massive party but they run into car trouble outside a creepy, deserted motel/diner and are stranded there for the night. To make matters worse, one of them is being persued by an ostensibly ex-doctor because he stole a bag of drugs from him to take to the party.
Reeker is scary and suspenceful and is quite gorey but not gruesome enough as to make you feel sick or look away from the screen. The begining and the end of the movie are both very good as well as the main part of the movie. The begining is scary and makes a good start to the movie because it gives a good impression of what is to come in the main storyline. The ending is a huge twist and it is very clever, it is one of those twists that you will never see coming and its a very intelligent twist because there are no plot holes or mistakes and everything that happens in the movie joins together.
The charactors are origional and not the stereotypes you would expect. The blonde girl is good because her charactor is really dumb, which makes the movie funny in places. One of the charactors is blind.
Reeker is a good horror (sort-of slasher) with a fantastic twist at the end. I would deffinatly recomend this movie to horror fans.
