Wordiezett So much average

Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

Peter Tidman At first glance The Horde may seem somewhat thin. I enjoyed it thoroughly and understanding what was involved in making it, the modest budget, time constraints, limitations, make this a model of creativity from Paul Logan. The skill and talent of director Jared Cohn in pulling all the factors together in producing a very entertaining and mostly shocking horror flick. Looking a little closer and recognizing the broad spectrum of talent lending itself to this film and it becomes more so. Few collaborations of creativity can boast of creating good economical entertainment time after time with the constraints harnessed to The Horde. Paul Logan shares his skills and acting talent in a way that leaves you wanting to see him in more and his story creation does not disappoint. Jared Cohn has gathered a talented cast hand picked for their ability to become the characters we see. There is no doubt that we have and will continue to be entertained in new and greater fashion again and again. See "The Horde" Watch it twice or three times and you will see more each time. Really good entertainment.

FlashCallahan .......And if that sounds like your cup of tea, it will come as no surprise that even though this film is entertaining, it has none of the scares of Wrong Turn, and barely any of the action of Commando.John Crenshaw accompanies his girlfriend and her students on a weekend photography project deep into the woods. What should be an educational and fun-filled weekend turns into the opposite as the group are besieged by a horde of hideously disfigured, mutated humans with an insatiable taste for blood. As things go from bad to worse, Crenshaw becomes their only hope if they are going to get out alive........If you are a fan of horror movies, particularly that of the 'Gorenography' sub-genre, you would instantly know that when it features Bill Moseley in the opening act as one of the nicest people in the whole film, you know that's not the last you will see of him. And that's the fundamental element that is wrong with the film, it's not original enough to be anything other than passable horror fluff. Everything has been done before, from the opening scene featuring two victims, very Wrong Turn, to the stereotypical characterisation.We have the incredibly ripped lead, who looks beyond uncomfortable in his own body, who you just know will lose his cool at least twice in the film. Then we have the students.We have your over lusted couple who sit in the back of the car kissing for the entire journey, you just know that they will go first and go quickly. Then you have the token rich boy who is abhorrent and rude to everyone.....and you just know that his death scene will be the the most drawn out one of the film, and it will be the goriest part of the film.The other two students are a little boring and have common sense, so obviously they may be safe come the end, and the teacher is the most cookie cutter of all the characters.By the way, if you think that these are spoilers, you have never seen a stalk n' slash horror film before, because it follows the same formula that everyone of these films has done in the history of cinema, because film makers don't like change.The family of killers are again your atypical selection of freaks and burly men with whom you may have seen in another film. And talking of Commando, Vernon Wells makes a special guest appearance as a face eating bad guy who has a wonderful scene with the spoilt rich boy.But then for some reason, one of the family appears to be a tree, so any element of reality is just thrown out of the proverbial window.Costas Mandylor pops up at the beginning and the third act as the big boss, because he was one of the main bad guys in Saw, and the makers must have thought 'I bet if we have him in a small role, there will be fans of Saw who will think that everything he's in will be horror gold'.It's not a terrible film by any means, but you'll have that terrible sense of déjà Vu whilst getting through it.One for gore hounds, and for people who like all of the plot explained in the final ten minutes.Oh, and the great Don 'The Dragon' Wilson pops up in what must be the weirdest cameo that I have ever seen in my life.In fact, it's worth watching just for his cameo.

rootuser-40030 Please see my rating system below. I am not a producer, promoter, or in any way financially attached to this film (other than I paid to buy it)Sit down and get ready for a mix of Rambo meets Friday the 13th meets The Hills Have Eyes! The Horde is a dive in to a world of drug runners, hill folk, and a photography class outing that all come colliding together for an action/horror flick that gave me a lot I didn't expect.As a kind of typical slasher flick, think you've seen this movie before in some iteration? Quite possibly, until we add a slight wrinkle. Not all of the campers are hapless victims, and in fact, one of them is a former Navy Seal, and BAM! suddenly we change gears into Man on Fire meets the Most Dangerous Game meets Taken.John Crenshaw (played by Paul Logan) becomes our hero and sets out to rescue his campers and rid the world of the hideous Hill People Drug, Rape and Cannibalism Cartel (that's a joke), infamously known the world over as the HPDRCC. Logan does an excellent job with the stunts. I don't typically expect to see many if any stunts, and if there are any it's usually camera work, but in this case we had several well choreographed fight scenes. In particular, when Stone (Matthew Willig) squares off against John Crenshaw, the shots look great. NO WIRES. No fake camera, and we get to see just a couple of guys doing their own stunts and I think it plays out well.The main bad guy, Cylus, played by Costas Mandylor comes off as your typical maniacal, egotistical, erudite, enlightened psychopath, and Mandylor just nails it. I really believe Costas should be the person playing Neegan right now in the Walking Dead. I buy his character even with the lack of dialog he has. He is the man in charge and you believe it throughout the movie.The entire crew does their job, each one of them over-doing his or her role to the most annoying point where I am relieved to begin to see them get chopped up one by one. This is the point of the movie isn't it? I don't feel too bad when anyone dies, and some points, I'm rooting for the Hill people and I loved it! Then when I realized the hill people were sicker that heck, thanks to the role played by the immortal Vernon Wells as Earl, I begin to think they are going to get what's coming to them in the form of a John Crenshaw knife bomb to the top of the head.Overall, if you are looking for a FUN movie, that is not afraid to pay homage to many great horror flicks in it's own way, then you'll have fun with this one. The price is right at $3 on Amazon and it's worth a Saturday night sit down. If you paid $15 to watch the Fantastic 4 that quite literally had 100 times or more the budget of this movie, and you wanted your money back like I did for that Fantastic 4 piece of garbage, $3 is a real bargain for something entertaining.Walk in knowing what to expect, and quit expecting to get big Hollywood out of movies that are shot in just a couple of weeks, that folks barely get paid, and that isn't the umpteenth remake of a comic book I read in grade school. These movies are supposed to FUN! Have FUN and turn off your "Critic" filter and maybe just enjoy the spread!**** My rating system **** I have rated well over 700 movies on IMDb, and written reviews for quite a few. I try to take a scientific approach and as a result, my ratings fit a bell-curve pattern as would be expected over a large sample set. I am slightly skewed on the tail (Hey, when I hate a movie I hate it) and slightly under represented on the head (Hard to find a perfect 10 IMHO).I rate Independent flicks against independent flicks, and I rate big Hollywood against big Hollywood. It is not fair to take a movie that cost tens of thousands of dollars or less and compare it to a movie that costs 7 or 8 figures (Maybe 9!) With unlimited retakes, huge production crews, massive marketing budgets, teams of professional writers/re-writers etc. I expect more out of big Hollywood movie. I try to rate equally on story.I like to take the time to write reviews about smaller independent movies rather than movies that 1000s of reviews as I hope some one takes what I write seriously rather than getting lost in a cacophony of similar voices.

aftermoviediner The Horde is to be applauded. Applaud The Horde.Pause for applause."Why is it to be applauded?!" I hear you cry, well, there are many reasons.Mainly because 1) It is an independent film that puts practical effects above terrible CGI 2) It mixes the kind of fun, straight to video martial arts I miss from the 80s and 90s with the sort of surreal, gory and mad horror I miss from the 70s and 80s 3) It is enjoyable and doesn't take itself seriously without trying hard to be ironically so bad it's good. 4) All the "cameo" or supporting players do an amazing job chewing the scenery - especially Vernon Wells in his sequence. 5) It's lit and set designed really well.If you had to pitch The Horde to your genre loving friends in a sentence then it would be "Rambo versus The Hills Have Eyes" or "John Matrix versus the Wrong Turn inbreds"The Horde feels like a film made by genre film fans for genre film fans. It skirts around the edges of being knowing, having cinematic frames of reference and certainly aiming to attract a midnight crowd but not only is it apparent, from the fight set pieces to the practical special effects, that a huge amount of dedicated work and craftsmanship has been put into making it but it's also having immense fun just being an entertaining, adult, tearaway, violent, gory romp.When I first put the film on I had no idea what I was in for. I assumed it was going to be just another zombie film, probably because of the french film of the same name. In fact, the name of the movie could've been given a little rethink, not just because it is a familiar name of other films and a computer game but also because it doesn't sit completely right, for me, with what happens in the movie (but that's a small nitpick).Initially the film was reminiscent of some of the later entries in the Friday 13th franchise. The early slasher kill sequence, the set up of the cliché youthful characters, the purposefully weak innuendoes about sex, the improbable excuse to go into the woods in the middle of nowhere, the forced dialogue etc. Have to admit, it had me a little cautious that this was going to be a difficult movie to get through. Remember, I had no idea what the film was about or what was about to happen. I also need to indicate that if you're an 80s horror fan, you'll be no stranger to this type of dialogue.It wasn't till we got to the Don Wilson cameo, followed by the barroom brawl, and meatheads were taking flying kicks to the face that I sat up and my mind changed.I am a huge 80s and 90s action fan and also a huge 80s horror fan and so what happened next appealed to me greatly, especially once the night-time roller-coaster of carnage and mayhem got underway.The main cast of the kids and the teacher are a mixture of newcomers and up and comers. They all handle themselves fine. Two of them aren't given much to do but make out and talk about making out, but that's sort of to be expected, two of them have a little more to do as they seem on the brink of a relationship but are also a little more down to earth, nervous and normal teens.Sydney Sweeney, whose part gets considerably more challenging as the film goes on, does well with the softer, sweeter dialogue in the earlier part of the film and her small scene with Tiffany Brouwer is a stand out before everything gets dark and nasty.I am not sure if being affectively annoying and punchable is something to be praised but Thomas Ochoa, with the equally punchable character name of Riley St. Claire, is highly successful as the spoilt, rich daddy's boy who doesn't have a kind word to say about anyone and who can't stop gassing on about all his money. It's quite timely really as he is like a skinny, young, dark haired, effeminate Donald Trump.Rounding out the main cast is our hero, the aforementioned, Paul Logan. He wrote the film, produced it, stars in it and did the fight choreography. That's very, very impressive and I doubt the man had much sleep. Doing multiple jobs like that on a lower budget movie means long days, short nights and not much sitting down. His fighting style is watchable and accomplished. I felt it could've been served better with a different shooting style and slightly better editing but it definitely got the point across and made for some entertaining rumbles.For those in the know, the supporting cast is a who's who of action and horror stalwarts that are having a wonderful time chewing the scenery and tearing up the screen.The last thing to be said on The Horde, which I hinted at earlier, is just how refreshing it was to see an indie genre movie of this kind use real make-up effects, proper design, lighting and set dressing, great stunts, martial arts and so on. A lot of modern films lack that authenticity and it always makes a movie, in my view, when I can see strange, wonderful and creative ideas, designs and effects on the screen.The movie has just about a little bit of everything. It is violent, gruesome, gory, disgusting, sexy, fun, enjoyable, weird, surreal and action packed. A B-Movie in every sense of the word. With a more dynamic director and a snappier, tighter edit this film could really be a new cult favourite. As it stands it is a valiant effort, with some highly enjoyable ideas and moments, practical effects and stunts galore. I'd watch a sequel.