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List Price: $24.95 | | Label: Monarch Video
Salesrank: 23947
Released: September 29, 2009 |
| Our Price: $19.49 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
CHAD AND SCARLET LEAVE THEIR OLD LIFE AND HORRIFYING SECRETS BEHIND IN SEARCH OF A FRESH START. BUT WHEN A NEAR-FATAL CAR ACCIDENT LEAVES THEM STRANDED IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, THEY TURN TO A MYSTERIOUS FARM COUPLE FOR SHELTER.
Farmhouse Reviews:
Tense with a Twist.. 
2009-11-18 - I wasn't expecting too much with this movie but I was pleasantly surprised. I ordered Farmhouse from Amazon during a horror movie drought. All I knew about the movie was that Kelly Hu was in it. That peaked my interest because she is smoking..Anyway, the movie involves the usual stranded bickering motorists who take refuge with a hospitable if somewhat strange couple in a remote farmhouse. The story takes some tense and graphically violent turns throughout the next hour or so but veers away from its SAW and HOSTEL underpannings and ends with an unexpected and supernatural climax. All in all a nice little horror movie and a welcome addition to my collection of the macabre.
And now a moral from the director... 
2009-10-29 - Both torture-porn AND a morality tale (killing is BAD!) (yep, that's the message) this film becomes downright silly (complete with glowing demon eyes and a heavy-handed lesson) and throws away an intriguing premise. Rife with hilarious dialogue (on approaching a farmhouse after a car accident a young couple has this exchange: Him: I hope someone's home. Her: Yeah, me too.) and acting replete with serious, slow delivery, this film can only be described as a complete time-waster.
One of the few direct-to-DVD gems
2009-10-11 - I only gave this movie a shot because I was aware that Steven Weber is a true horror fan himself so I kept hope alive that he involved himself in a quality project. After a clunky start that had me reaching for the remote the movie strengthens with competent acting, good writing and just the right mixture of dread, suspense and gore. Be warned of a certain torture scene right out of Martha Stewart's Hostel. As for Mr. Weber, he is the real deal as an actor - turning from genial to pure evil with one look and not the slightest bit of camp in his performance.
Life After Death 
2009-10-10 - It took about 5-10 minute before I started getting into the movie. I almost shut it off. BUT, this movie was good. Not scary, but had some gross parts, nothing like Hostel. The ending was good. I just wished the torture lasted longer and was more severe. Karma, aint it a beach. Enjoy.
A Not Guilty Pleasure
2009-10-03 - This film started out with some promise, with fairly good production values and decent acting. I felt a little like bailing out half-way through it though, when the torture started - when the blood began to spatter. It seemed as if the film was degenerating into typical schlock shock - gratuitous gore.
But I'm glad I stuck with "Farmhouse." It takes a surprising U-turn, becoming more than exploitation, more than sensationalism.
You know how a couple of decades ago, starlets used to justify their on-camera nude scenes with the rote pretext that those scenes were "integral to the movie's plot." In this case though, the torture scenes really do turn out to be integral to the plot. And that plot turns out to be quite well-crafted. With almost old-fashioned attention to detail, all the loose ends get tied up. All the seeming little discrepancies that a viewer will probably just overlook along the way - get explained. This movie proves itself to be considerably better than the usual slap-dash slasher film being ground out.
The real shock in "Farmhouse" is the forewarning moral that the movie impresses the viewer with. So this is one gore-fest that you don't have to feel guilty about devoting 95 minutes of your life to watching.
