Gnaw (2008)

Dreadfully Boring

A Disappointing Continuation

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

There are 2 sets of reviews for this flick. The first, obvious batch, is from those involved with making it, they give it incredible raves. Those have been rightfully called out for being bogus.What I do not understand are those who have made this out to be one of the worst horror flicks ever. It's not even close to being that bad.Come on, any horror fan who decides to watch this flick knows exactly what they are going to be viewing...a cinematic marriage of "Motel Hell" and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre." As if any of the "Saw" sequels, or "Fridays the 13th" sequels, or "Halloween" sequels (except for #3) were going to offer something original and different? So why rag on this one for being derivative? Were you expecting "Inception"? As opposed to some other low-budget flicks I have seen, this one offers some pretty good cinematography and while the characters are fairly stereotypical, the acting is actually rather serviceable.This film does have a few very gory moments, including a tongue-removal (a la "Mark of the Devil"). But in many other scenes, the gore is mostly left off screen. I think this was partially due to budgetary constraints, but I didn't mind. I watch horror more to be scared, not to be completely nauseated.The major flaw I found with "Gnaw" was its essential incompleteness. Without giving too much away, was the vegetarian fed 'meat' in the captivity which the film suggests, but doesn't show? Her fate? Unresolved. Perhaps, intentionally. Also, why would someone find an elaborately painted fingernail in their dinner and not react? Shouldn't there have been a scene where the innocent victims suddenly have a realization about what they are eating, while they are eating? Not in this movie, where a cohort rushes in with a revelation that quickly overshadows the discovery.And yes, why on earth would the 3 not attempt an escape together? Having said all that, this film did deliver its share of creepiness.Was it as awful as some posters would have you believe? Naw.

After just watching the ironically un-amusing 'Amusement,' I took an even further step back with the playfully titled 'Gnaw.' Such as, if you see this in the video store, you should move on while saying, "Gnaw, we should watch a decent movie tonight." This movie was bad on many levels, and though mercifully it was only 90-minutes, it seemed to drag on to 3-hours. This definitely was my error, but I had thought I was getting into another giant mutated animal low-budget horror, thinking back to the 80's creature feature: 'Gnaw: Food of the Gods 2.' Nope, this was just an extremely simple, 100% rip off of, say, every single horror movie made. I mean, not an original idea was thought up. We've got all (but mainly #2) 'Texas Chainsaw Massacres,' (any one of the dozens of) 'Wrong Turn' (films), 'Motel Hell,' 'Friday the 13th,' 'Hostel' (or, all torture-porn films) and many, many more. Get this for a premise: six friends of all clichés and statuses venture out to a seemingly "normal" house in the middle of nowhere on a holiday when no one really knows that much about this place, but it sure sounds like a vacation full of booze, sex and relaxation. Someone not even born knows what's coming, so it's no spoiler to say there's a (sometimes) masked psycho bent on, go ahead guess. I'm really no killer, and I've already covered this in my apparently poorly conceived review of 'Shuttle,' but if you get a chance to stop/kill your attacker, you should do it. I would. 30-40 stabs would be released from me to make sure my initial bonk on the head of the killer wasn't the only blow. 1/funniest scenes involved someone ignoring this rule and reaching for his, what? Inhaler? Simply gnawful.

it's one of the worst movies i have ever seen....i could of shot better film with my 8mm camera....just a waste of film i do not have anything good to say about this so called film i don't even know how it ends...because i didn't even get that far just terrible the person who made this film needs..by the way the people in the film needs to be shot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OK they will not let me post my comment unless its about ten lines they need to change this some movies do not deserve more than one line so im gonna try to spread it out a little bit hope it works.now they saying do not pad your comments this crap sucks man i really don't have anything to write..so back in Detroit where i was born we had some fun

A small observation about the merits of this film and these reviews.....ALL FIVE of the preceding posts are from single posting members (in the UK)and were all posted within two weeks of each other. What? Did a memo go out to the entire movie cast to post positive reviews on IMDb? Did someone really "like this film so much that she saw it several times and recommended it to several of her friends"? Night of the living dead it ain'tFor shame.