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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Lions Gate
Salesrank: 31878
Released: March 18, 2008 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 09/09/2008 Run time: 80 minutes Rating: R
Description of Crazy Eights - After Dark Horror Fest:
A solid cast of name actors enliven this indie ghost story from the 2007 After Dark Horror Fest. Dina Meyer, Frank Whaley, Traci Lords and Gabrielle Anwar are among a group of friends directed to an abandoned home by instructions left in a will by a deceased companion; naturally, they become trapped inside the structure, which is revealed to be a former hospital where behavioral experiments were conducted in prior decades on scores of children. That the group should have a connection to these experiments should come as no surprise to viewers, nor should the fact that the hospital's vengeful spirits plan to keep their secret safe by eliminating the intruders in Ten Little Indians fashion. In fact, there's very little fresh material for horror fans to gnaw on in Crazy Eights: The dialogue is leaden and the plot constantly forces one or more cast member to irrationally wander alone into the darkness in order to meet their fate. Director James K. Jones should be credited for bringing a professional and atmospheric look to his production, and for some restraint in the gore department, but the picture as a whole treads overly familiar territory and is therefore not particularly frightening. The cast certainly tries hard, especially Whaley and Lords. The sole extra is a handful of webisodes that follow the search for Miss HorrorFest 2007. -- Paul Gaita
Crazy Eights - After Dark Horror Fest Reviews:
8 Crazy Actors looking for a paycheck 
2008-10-24 - This movie blows chunks! The gore factor is extremely low and most of the kills are off camera.I have seen good horror movies where the killer or main protaganist is not seen on camera to build suspense,but here this method fails as we only get see a shadow(Supposed ghost thats 4 feet tall.) and a pair of cheap halloween monster hands,you know the kind I'm talking about,you can find them at any walgreens in the halloween section for under 5 bucks! The story starts off good,I thought the idea here of having children being experimented on is really terrifing as would anybody but come on what parents would drop their children off at a seculeded building with labs in them to be studied on(Micheal Jacksons house guest come to mind)even if they are told the studies are harmless behavioral studies that they get paid for.You couldn't give me all the money in the world, being a parent myself.To make matters worse we are never given any information about the experiments except that most of the kids are never heard from again,come on!!!!!! The story just ends right there,daadaaddaa that's all folks as the last of the crazy eights dies and once again we never even get to see it!Let me mention that the crazy eights are survivors from the experiments that are now grown up and the name crazy eights comes from the name the childhood friends called their baseball team,ohhhh!!! creepyyy!!!. The cast here gets wasted as I like the actors,just not in this celluloid waste.I only take time to write this review so that I may save others from wasting their time and money as I so unfortunatley did.The only bright spot for me was that I only blew a dollar for the rental from Redbox. After Dark Horror Fest movies are a ripoff and waste of time,as I have yet to see one that was any good.
A gory spook story that we've seen before, and seen better 
2008-09-12 - Crazy Eights, an offering in the second year of the After Dark Horror Fest, is a gory spook story that doesn't offer anything that hasn't been seen plenty of times before, and were it not for it's game cast, this flick would be a pure waste of celuloid. Crazy Eights revolves around a group of old friends (Dina Meyer, George Newbern, Traci Lords, Frank Whaley, Burn Notice's Gabrielle Anwar, and The Wire vet Dan DeLuca who also co-wrote this flick) who are re-united after the passing of a friend of theirs. Turns out that all of them were involved in some sort of dark research and experiments, and soon enough all of them become trapped and start to get picked off. What kills Crazy Eights is it's predictability: you know what's going to happen right before it happens. Not to mention that there are so many non-sensical twists and developments that the film ends up becoming almost incomprehensible as it winds down, and the road getting there is more boring than anything else. The grainy look of the film doesn't make matters any better either, but as said before, the cast is good. All of them, even Lords (who pulls off a great and blood-curdling scream), manage to accomplish some great work, but that's the only thing about Crazy Eights worth mentioning really. All in all, you'll certainly see worse horror flicks, but you can certainly do better than what you get here.
Genuinely creepy moments so cut it some slack 
2008-08-25 - I caught this on on-demand Fearnet and wasn't expecting much. However, from the introduction to the final scene, the film held my interest and had some pretty creepy scenes. Worth renting and I'll take this over any of the Saw movies any day of the week.
traci
2008-07-28 - i'm a big traci lords-fan (not of her porns) and so i bought this dvd, because i was lucky that there was a new movie starring her. the idea of the movie was not so bad, but the movie for itself was a little bit boring. also i think that some brutal scenes were cut. on this dvd were trailers from the other 7 films from the after dark horrorfest, and i think, those films are better. especially borderland, where i also bought the dvd.the first star from my rating is for a new traci-film, and the second star is therefore, that she plays almost a leading role!
Almost worth the price.
2008-07-02 - This movie carried some decent B-movie actors (and even a porn star) through a fairly solid story, but most of the people that watched this with me agreed that the ending was extremely weak. It had a great build-up, quality kills, but fizzled into either a rush job, an undecided director's bad choice, or both.
Slightly scary with elements that have been run into the ground repeatedly.
If you can rent it cheap, you'll like it more.
