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Evil Intent

I’m at a loss of words for Evil Intent. I don’t like to get nasty about films (well, for the most part), and I try to find the best in everything to give as balanced a review as I can. There are a lot of things you can say about the film; it is cheap. It is short. It is wordy. But is it good? No, I’m afraid you cannot say that about it.

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Stephanie and Kelly are two best friends who live together in an apartment. Stephanie, who is constantly shown taking medication for mental problems, is going out with Paul, who also happens to be Kelly’s ex. Kelly reassures Stephanie that she is OK with it, but then we see her emptying out Stephanie’s meds. Teaming up with another mutual friend (Tricia), Kelly starts to make Stephanie paranoid that she is hearing noises that aren’t there, until there are voices driving her insane, hoping to push her to murder Paul and take the fall for it.

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Reviewing films, you get an awful lot of screeners, with quality ranging from Hollywood blockbuster right on down to backyard camcorder. This film falls firmly in the later. You try to give indie filmmakers some leeway, because it’s not easy at all, but director Glenn Berggoetz is the same man who bought us the abysmal 'Midget Zombie Takeover' and he has no goodwill left with us here at BloodGuts. This is just too much to unleash on the public.

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Evil Intent is what you would get if you took out the clipart birds from Birdemic, and then sucked out any so-bad-it’s-good humour. The majority of the film takes place in the girls’ apartment or on that damned couch. I swear, it is a drinking game in the making. If you took a shot for every scene set on the couch, you wouldn’t remember the night, or the film, which wouldn’t be a bad thing. Production values are naught, technical quality is for the birds, and the little gore there is wouldn’t fool a five year old. The only saving graces here is the plot is moderately OK, (and even then, that is stretched out at only 73 minutes, including extended credits), most of the acting is passable, and the final act remembers audiences like twists and excitement in films.

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This film is allegedly available on some hotels’ PPV. If you ever paid for it, you would be fully in your right demanding the hotel repay you your entire nights cost, and then gave you a massage, just for good measure. There is no two ways about it. Evil Intent certainly isn’t the worst film I have seen by a long shot, but it is inadequate, meanders, and has no place being anything but an example for the filmmakers to learn what not to do next time.

Director: Glenn Berggoetz

Year: 2013

Running Time: 73 minutes

Age Rating: TBC



Reviewer: Richard Waters

RATING



Plot: 3

Fear: 0

Gore: 1



R1/5​

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