Carnivore

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Summary: "Consider the Source"!
Review: A unique opportunity to experience film history in-the-making. The "Carnivore" DVD is worth buying just for the 40+ min. "Featurette" alone: "Carnivore Kills," an intimate and honest documentary, reveals the process of making the film "against the odds" in suburban Chicagoland! Director Ken Mader is currently a hot property in his new Hollywood home... If you truly love & understand filmmaking, "consider the source" of any critique, and support quality, ethical filmmakers -- they are rare indeed, you can trust me on that! :-)

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Summary: carnivore? cannot believe some of these reviewers
Review: cannot believe some of these reviewers and their excuses. and sick of the low budget excuse. there's so many low budget movies that make it work and this is definitely NOT one of them!!
the sound in this movie is by far the worst of any DVD. you constantly have to mess with the volume to hear anything, terrible! movie is so predictable and unamusing! creature is just pure laughable. another movie with a cool looking cover that is easily one of the worst horror movies of all time. anybody that gives this movie more than one star must have been involved in the making of this movie.

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Summary: The worst film I've ever seen...
Review: Don't let the positive reviews fool you. They fooled me. I selected this movie from pay-per-view and watched the first 30 minutes. I could not believe that this movie involved adults. My 8 and 10 year old nephews have put on better skits with their Transformer dolls. The only good thing is that I now have an answer for the question "What was the absolutely worst movie you've ever seen?"

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Summary: THE stupidest movie ever created
Review: Don't waste the time or calories even considering buying or renting this movie. Absolutely horrible.

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Summary: CARNISNORE
Review: I have to comment on the review by the director's brother. While I can understand your defense of your brother, it still doesn't make this a good movie. If there was a lot of hard work that went into this bomb, it certainly doesn't show. Not one of the "actors" should have even been put on screen; the effects are entirely laughable; the sound and lighting are so far beyond professional standards, I don't see how a studio could have released such a horribly made movie. So Mr. Kurtz, pat your brother on the back, but don't think the rest of the world can sympathize with such lack of talent in film-making. Obviously, this is one horror movie to avoid.

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Summary: The coolest part about this movie is the cover!
Review: It goes beyond words how stupid this movie is. I enjoy scary movies and even the bargin ben ones.But this goes far below any bargin ben movie.Amazing special features NONE!!! There are no special features exept scene acess.The movie itself sucked beyond any comperison. It makes Bambi look like a terrifying heart pounding movie. The horrible acting, lame effects, pathetic music,the furry little monster who looks like a hampster on steriods and oh god the horrible cliche storyline as well as every cheap monster cliche trick possible.Such as the creatures hand grabs hold of acorner and it's head slowly apears around the wall or it leaps at the camra just to suck every last thrill into the movie. That is possible the scariest part of the movie. And finnaly if you want a comedy or an example of a bad horrer film here it is.

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Summary: The worst movie on God's green and blue earth
Review: my little brother laughs at this piece of s*** of a movie. Everytime he watches it. If you gave this move something above a 2 then either you played on the movie. Or you been smoking that Blue berry yum yum, that's being for real. The movie is about four or five teenagers going into a house that has a monster in it. and the government wants to stop this monster that is in the house or some stupid s***. It's just a stupid story line. And when the movie starts you can't help but laugh at the level of dumb a**. Anyway they must have paid the actors $20 each to do this movie. Because none of them could act it was just a bad movie. I thought Jason X was the worst scary movie I every seen until I waste 81 mins of my life watching this garbage.

Unless you want to waste 81 mins of your life away don't watch this.

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Summary: Best movie to be filmed in basement in St. Charles, Illinois
Review: Not since "Guy Le Guy" has there been a movie that truly takes advantage of what basements in St. Charles has to offer. Two thumbs or claws, way up for this title. Truly a classic of low budget, gonzo film-making.

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Summary: From the Brother of F. Joseph Kurtz
Review: Okay folks, I felt it was time to put my two cents in. I understand some of you being upset about this movie, but there are some circumstances that you must know. The first thing is that this movie was originally released by MTI Home Video which did the cover art and included all of the extras. When MTI sold the distribution rights to 20th Century, MTI neglected to contact my brother and Ken Mader to also include the extras. 20th Century in all their (not so great) wisdom released the movie without the extras, but never changed the box art. For those people that wanted the extras, you should go to 20th Century and give them your mind!

Now, as for the movie; I was obviously very close to the making of this movie, but not directly involved. I know how much dedication my brother and Mader and all the others put into this. I give it a solid 3 rating because of my knowledge of the movie. This movie having been created by my brother is a part of me. The indoor scenes were shot in my brothers basement and the set work, I thought, was amazing for some amateurs! The spooky house was none other than our parents house and so it is with great pleasure that I watch this movie. Not the best, but something I can appreciate and something the my family appreciates.

The making of this movie also helped me in more ways than I had expected. I now like to buy movies in those Walmart bins and the more obscure, the better. I enjoy some of the worst movies, because I remember the time and effort my brother and Mader put into theirs and so I feel a sense of dedication to the many others that are trying to do the same. I refuse to knock the other "bad" movies, made by small-town people that are just trying to "break through" and be recognized. I will, however, knock the big budget, big studio, big actor junk movies.

Thanks,

David L. Kurtz

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Summary: Buyer beware -- don't waste your money on this DVD.
Review: The movie -- trash! The DVD box art says that Carnivore is a widescreen presentation that is `digitally mastered'. The film is NOT in widescreen, and `digital mastering' can only mean that either the master exists on some kind of digital medium, or worse, that the film was `mastered to digital' in the sense that DVDs were made from the master (obviously, since the product is a DVD).

The transfer is one of the poorer ones that I've seen (unfortunately it isn't the worst). It is extremely grainy (it looks like it was recorded from a VHS tape that had been rented about 300 times in the mid-80s, and then stored in a mildew-filled basement for 10 years), The sound has a lot of hiss and was equalized with far too much bass--you have to crank up the treble, crank up the volume, and you still can't hear dialogue in some scenes. I don't know what aspect ratio directors F. Joseph Kurtz and Kenneth Mader filmed in, but the framing suggests that it _wasn't_ filmed in `full-screen' (1.33 : 1), which is the aspect ratio on this disc.

Additional bad news is that the box art also promises a director commentary, a featurette called `Carnivore Kills!', a trailer, and optional Spanish subtitles. None of these are on the disc. Instead, the disc has two menu options. One for `Play Movie' and one for `Scene Selection'--which gives you access to only eight chapter markings. This is either a serious case of false advertising or an equally serious screw-up on the manufacturing end. And in both cases, it would probably be best for everyone to send their copies of the DVD back to 20th Century Fox and demand a refund plus a free copy of the DVD when the corrections are made. Even if some of the problems (such as the sound) are rooted in the source material, these can be fairly easily rectified in a moderately-equipped recording/engineering studio.