Beautiful People (2014) Reviews

• Someone has intense Mommy Issues...

  lurre-836812018-07-26

  This should be called "Incel Horror" because this is definitely born of the "Involuntarily Celibate" faction. Zero story, awful acting, they try to rely on rape for shock value and it's just bad. I didn't even make it to the end, not because it was "too disturbing" but because it's just crap... I would love to find the director and demand my money back as well as the hour or so of my life I wasted on this garbage.

• Derivative garbage!

  metalrage6662017-05-16

  Maybe I'm only one of a select few who's watched this nonsense all the way through, but all I've managed to accomplish is to waste my time. Movie starts with 3 low-lifes forcing a husband and wife to have sex while their teenage daughter is forced to watch. Apparently this is some kind of sick test for married couples to show their "true love" for each other. When the couple fail to satisfy the head thug, they are slaughtered and the daughter has her neck broken. I can see why people are switching off. On their second home invasion attempt, they unwittingly choose the house of a doctor involved in human experimentation. The doctor is turning people into zombies at the behest of a clandestine government agency. When the 3 psychos start terrorising this new family, the zombies lurking downstairs in a sealed off part of the house start making noise which makes the invaders suspicious so of course one decides to investigate and thankfully he's killed for his trouble. Needless to say, the other zombies manage to escape their confines and venture out into the house and then outside randomly killing everyone they come across. At this point you think that this will end up as stock standard fare of people endlessly running for their lives, but when the doctors wife and the youngest of the 3 invading sadists end up almost exhausted from running and fighting, they decide to rest at a rocky shore along a river bank. Despite being wounded, for some reason this loser decides to then rape the debilitated wife who's too out of it to successfully fight him off and after he's done, he smashes her face in with a rock. So she manages to survive a forest full of bloodthirsty undead only to be murdered by a useless waste of life for no apparent reason. After he's done he stumbles off and from memory we don't see him after that. The film ends by showing a government SWAT team that's turned up at the doctors house where the youngest son is the only one to have survived. However as he hasn't been bitten and is not infected, they no longer need him so he's taken back to the house and executed. It's all these random, meaningless acts of unrestricted violence against people that can't defend themselves that stop a movie like this from being seen as entertainment. An epilogue in a style reminiscent of the updated Dawn of the Dead or 28 Days Later movies by way of news reports and real life flash footage we see the zombies rapidly infecting all they come across and the country being overrun with armed forces fighting a losing battle with their increasing numbers causing widespread panic. Beautiful People has stolen heavily from almost every other horror and zombie movie made in the last 30 years. As you watch this you can mentally tick off movie after movie that this garbage borrows heavily from. The Undead look like like left-overs from Resident Evil or Hellraiser. The acting is so poor it's laughable and from what I've read it was done this way so they could focus more of their attention on "story" and "effects". God knows how you can focus on a story that's plagiarised from every other movie, that's why they call it plagiarism; it requires none of your own talent when you copy another's work. There's a difference between influence and outright theft. This whole thing looks like a hamfisted mish- mash of unfinished scripts that have been salvaged out of the recycling bin, and that's where this should've stayed. This is a terrible movie and simply not worth watching.

• Wow was this a contest for worst film ?!?!

  nycscott12018-12-03

  This has got to be the worst movie I have seen pure garbage bad acting story ending just a true waste of my bloody time !

• Brits Kill Italian Zombies

  Theo Robertson2015-04-28

  This has the distinctive feel of being two stories joined together . One being a violent and brutal though admittedly disturbing and effective home invasion movie and the other being an apocalyptic zombie film but the two stories as you can imagine fail to gel together , To give the film some credit the home invasion subplot is well done . Three violent , sexual sadists hit upon a good idea to rob isolated mansions in the Italian countryside after they've murdered the occupants . To be honest the robbery aspect is peripheral , perhaps to the point of being non existent but no doubt they enjoy raping and murdering the householders . These chaps aren't taking any prisoners and it's only a matter of time before they pick on the wrong house and being set in Italy there's bound to be a few zombies around the corner It's definitely an unpleasant film but the scenes where the trio of bad guys enter the Pontecorvo home and subject the family to intimidation and terror does have a compelling power rarely seen in this type of subgenre and you almost feel sorry for the Pontecorvos' . I say "almost" because there is a major spanner in the works and that is Mr Pontecorvo is a mad scientist type and in his lab in the basement he's been conducting human experiments on behalf of the American government along with keeping his zombies fed on the occasional passer-by . Why the American government needs a villa in Italy to do this is never explained or how Mrs Pontecorvo and her children seem unaware of the zombie liar in their home is similarly never touched upon . Apparently the mansion up the road is also conducting the same experiments and just as the zombies are killing the residents of the Pontecorvo home and making their escape the zombies up the road are doing the exact same thing . It's as difficult to suspend disbelief as it is to feel sorry for someone carrying out human experiments along with characters obligingly turning a blind eye That's a pity of sorts because if BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE kept faith in the first idea of totally amoral villains holding a family at gunpoint and inflicting needless and cruel violence upon them this would have been a memorable shocker , probably not for any good reason but memorable all the same . I was also somewhat surprised by the cast because looking up their resumes I'm led to believe at three of them are British , namely Cutler , Southern and Davies and I guess Italian horror has something of a tradition with this . It was something of a surprise watching the classic infamous ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS and seeing well known Scottish born actor Ian McCulloch in the lead role . I also take it these characters have redubbed their lines in their own voices which lends an element of conviction especially from Cutler though this is somewhat negated by the copy I saw online being slightly out of synch with the on screen action . It's negated even further by the dialogue being gloriously bad such as "You're going to be a great director one day . I bet Gus Van Sant would like to deep throat your c--k" . If nothing else lines like this lighten the mood in a depressing , nihilistic horror movie

• Everyone who had anything to do with this movie should be ashamed of themselves

  shattered__dream2018-11-18

  Poor concept, badly written, terribly acted and executed. Don't waste your time.