Cabin 28 (2017) Reviews

• Save your brain cells

  Acidpickle2017-08-12

  If you want to watch something worth your time, you might as well re-watch Strangers. Where do I start? The acting, the cinematography, the musical score, the pacing, the movie? All of it is terrible. I was actually infuriated by the terrible accents, and god forsaken acting. The only reason I kept watching was to actually see if the movie could get worse, and SPOILER ALERT, it does. The gore is terrible, and you can't wait for the mother to be killed right from the beginning. Every character has an annoying trait that won't stop, and you constantly wish they are killed next. Save your time, your money, and your IQ for something with a little more substance.

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• Horrible

  dashawn-209082017-09-27

  I can'y believe I wasted my time With this movie. Ended up watching the Documentary. But back to this movie, the acting was horrible. There was no introduction with the characters, so it was kind all over the place. Also i felt the writer could've made the characters fight back a little stronger than what they did. It's not much I can really say I was just mad I even wasted my time watching this movie.

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• Awful Garbage

  claudio_carvalho2019-02-25

  "Cabin 28" is one of those movies that make the viewer regret to have spent time watching it. The story and the screenplay are lame; the acting is terrible; the cinematography and special effects are poor; in summary, this film is an awful garbage. The only thing that works is the wonderful art of the Brazilian DVD cover that lures the viewer. Advice when most needed is least heeded. Anyway, the advice is to stay away from this crap. My vote is one (awful). Title (Brazil): "Cabana 28: Madrugada do Horror" ("Cabin 28: Dawn of the Horror")

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• boring rubbish

  climbingtiger9572017-09-28

  i would describe this film as no atmosphere,bleak,dull ,and so predictable it borders on cheese.its one of those films where you are constantly waiting for something to happen.i was maybe waiting for a family member to disclose some horrible reason why they moved to cabin 28,but it never happens.little black and white clips of the kids with depressing music playing.i am a big horror fan but i had to fast forward the torture scenes which they seemed to overplay just to get a reaction,where as i just found them sick .there is no ending it just drolls of into the distance with some more depressing music.so there you go ,i would definitely not recommend this film to anyone,i fast forwarded the last 20 mins out of sheer boredom.

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• 1981?

  A-Zupreme2017-08-10

  I hate to be too hard on what seems to be a low-budget production, but some of the greats were also low budget. Yet, many have managed to become something amazing despite so little so I have to speak frankly on what didn't work about this one: 1) The film didn't at all look like a representation of an event that took place in the early 1980s. The hook of this movie was basing it off of a real-life murder/kidnapping case of 1981. Unfortunately, neither the house nor the family conveyed a vibe of the 80s which put me off from it from the start. 2) The loud, over-dramatic music that told viewers when something major was being revealed or happening, as opposed to trusting your audience to know it for themselves. It got to the point where it became funny when this music played, which is a bit awkward of me to say about a movie with such grim subject matter but it almost seemed to border on parody at points. Ultimately, less is more and that's a weapon that low-budget productions need to utilize (and well) in order to succeed. 3) The look of the masked killers/intruders was not scary. I understand that ski masks and brown-sack bags with eye holes cut out have been done in other movies, but they at least look menacing as compared to these cheesy Halloween masks on display here. 4) I understand the concept of filler, but a movie as slim as this one shouldn't need it. Yet, there seems to be a lot of that going on here. 5) Finally, did we really need to hear "Night of the Living Dead" being played in the background on the TV? Did this really happen? Again, their hook was basing this on something that really happened, granted they did say that some things have been dramatized for effect at the start. Yet, it would have been nice for them to be a bit more choosy on WHAT they dramatized. Moments like this just remind you that you're watching a horror movie, not immersed in the terror along with the characters. Also, far too many self-aware horror-comedies play these classic horrors in their films (often as a loving wink by the creators to their favorites). So, it didn't do this one good to fall into that mix if it was trying to achieve something genuinely scary. 2 out of 10. I just could not get into this movie at all, though I will give it credit for having me look into the real-life case and learning about these poor people and what happened to them all those years ago. Movies like this remind us that the real horror resides not in the cinema but with us... in the real world.

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