Wednesday, October 24, 2018

The Review: Bad Ben



Bad Ben 8/10

Another week another horror movie with B&H. This time we watched a movie from 2016 called Bad Ben. I'd never heard of this festival of nonsense but I am so glad I watched it. It only cost a few hundred bucks and was filmed in the writer and directors house named Nigel Bach. He plays a guy named Tom Riley who bought a place from a sheriff's sale and wants to flip it and sale it. He is the only person in the movie and the only voice you hear and you will laugh at his voice often. When he says “Goddammit!” you will too. He looks around the house and finds things like crosses and bibles which he promptly tosses in the trash. He leaves and comes back and furniture is moved around. He thinks someone is doing this and activates a series of cameras in every part of the house along with filming it himself on his phone.


Even after putting in cameras weird shit keeps happening and the basement camera does not work. That is saved for the end. I started calling whatever was doing this the Angle Gang because they would place things in the house at angles. Then they became Tilt Gang and as the film went on I just wanted to see shit in the house tilted. Tilt Gang strikes more as Tom finds things like pentagrams and voodoo dolls, bloody baby clothes with a photo and treasure chest of knives, and a small grave in the yard. No problem for Tom who desecrates all of it immediately! Tilt Gang decides it is not taking Tom's shit anymore and Tom says the same to the spirit. Tilt Gang waits until Tom falls asleep and beats the shit out of him and I laughed and laughed.


Tom performs an exorcism which I assume he learned online and thinks shit is cool until shit is very much not cool and get worse and it is hilarious. I gave this such a high score because while it was cheap as hell and the main character is not close to being a good actor it made me laugh my ass off and had a very strange story. If you can find a way to check this out you should and make sure it is with a group of friends. Tilt Gang 4 Life!

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