Basement Jack
Basement Jack
R | 25 July 2010 (USA)
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A young serial killer preys on families during lightning storms.

Reviews
Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.
Cassandra Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
LakiM9 So let's start, if you are looking for an average low budget 1980s teenage slasher, you are going to enjoy this movie. Like most teenage horror, this one has an average story, script and acting. A serial killer, nicknamed Basement Jack because of his habit for hiding in victim's basements before crimes is released and returns to Downer's Grove town to continue his massacre. Karen is a girl who escaped when he was killing her family so he hunts her. It is clearly visible that Jack had a problem in his childhood(intercuts from time he was a young boy, and when he murdered his mother at age of 17). Although there are a few beautiful segments, as for example lighting (when thunder), creepy piano score, bad CGI kinda "kills" it. Also there is nice editing when it shows 2 parallel actions. It is also having a lot of gore and blood, pointless camera movement(especially in the beginning) and a little bit longer ending.Whatever, if you are a fan of average 1980s slashers, watch this!
GL84 When a serial killer starts up another murder spree after years of being inactive, a cop team ups with a woman who claims he's back to kill her after failing to do so during his first rampage to put an end to the new reign of terror.A perfectly decent slasher, with a really unique set-up in which the killer targets a whole family during his rampage, then will pose them after death into mannequin-like displays allows for some extra carnage and gruesomeness, the kills are brutal and bloody, and the stalkings are really good, making it really serviceable in those areas as long as you ignore the killer's backstory, which nearly everyone of us will be able to guess in one or two tries, three at the most, as it pertains to the most utterly obvious scenario for creating a psycho and really just drags the film down with it's repetition and use, but it's still an above-average slasher anyway.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Nudity and several sex scenes
Allan Brunke I picked up this movie at Blockbuster a while ago and I wrote it on a list to come home and look up on IMDb. Reading the reviews and ratings, I was a little put off, because it only had a 3.4 star rating. After much deliberation in the movie aisle, I decided to pick it up, and I am glad I did.Not only did I get an excellent stalk and slash film, but the characters were played with an excellent degree of scare. The character of Basement Jack is one of the creepiest horror movie psycho's out there. I think what drew me to him the most is that he wasn't some half-brained zombie stalking after people like most horror movies are nowadays. Basement Jack was just a child that was horrendously abused as a child in sick, sick ways, so he was just mentally unstable, but not stupid. There was a certain level of elegance in his stalk and slash, not just stalk, stalk, stalk, kill.On the negative side, some of the characters were a little lacking in the acting department, but at the same time, it made them seem like actual people and not actors trying to portray people. Also there are a few small plot holes that don't really ever get summed up.But overall, I really enjoyed this film and I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys to cuddle up with their most jumpy friends and watch someone slash up a bunch of towns people.I rate this: Definite Watch.
VegaValo Saw this film at Fangoria and I must say it is very well done. It doesn't try to be anything it's not. That said, for a low budget film it delivers and it's definitely worth watching. I've seen too many large budget horror's that don't compare to this film. Basement Jack provides all the elements of gore and the high scare factor that you would expect from a slasher movie.I particularly liked the performances of Michele Morrow (Karen Cook), Lynn Lowry (Mrs. Riley) and Nathan Bexton (the manager). Morrow was definitely the star of this film delivering a strong performance and giving her character a natural hot factor.I would definitely recommend watching this film!