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Wow what a bad movie I mean You at least hope there would be cuter girls getting naked throughout the film alas not and well it just sucked plot sucked, dialog sucked, scenery sucked. I mean really a factory made out of plywood and 2x4's with couches and beds scattered around. Yeah it was a big load of crap. Ron Jeremy play's a horrible drunk in the movie and he barely has a part to begin with. The plot is just your basic horrible government cover-up that reeks of influences like resident evil, REturn of the living dead part 3. It was a bad movie to get from blockbuster in fact I actually feel like finding the people who mad the movie and slapping them a couple of times.

Well, the plot of Death Factory follows the tragic story of a woman who becomes infected with bioweapons (at a CHEMICAL factory of course), and gets sick, or insane, to say the least. And she eats people to survive, yet has somehow grown steel teeth and what looks like a knock-off of Edward Scissorhands, because toxic chemicals totally do that, right? Her younger sister, who brings various friends and hobos to the factory, brings her gang of drunk college buddies to party in the old factory, really meaning to feed them to her mutant older sister, who by the way is named Alexa.

I'll start off by pointing out the most obvious thing - this movie is CHEAP! It appears as if they were trying to copy Resident Evil, which came out that same year, but also looks like it was filmed on a camcorder by students. And the characters are the basic doped-up kids who care about nothing but love and partying. The "factory" was more of a shed full of old couches, with a few Ebay purchased beakers and test tubes thrown in to convince people it had at one point been a military corporation. I was twelve when bought it at the dollar store, and to warn parents right now in case the title doesn't imply, THIS MOVIE IS BY NO MEANS APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN!!! For some reason the mutant monster is wearing a g-string, there are many explicit scenes, drug/alcohol references, and the mutant girl looks like a clown with rabies. So much swearing I couldn't even count it, and some low-budget but very gory scenes such as a woman having her eyes gouged out, flashbacks of chemists being dizembowelled by the monster, a boy being stabbed, a hobo being ripped apart and many more that are cheap but probably very disturbing to children. I now own it, thank heavens it only cost me a buck, because I wouldn't ever pay to see this again. will say on a positive note that I'm a big fan of fiction movies about chemical pollution causing adverse effects so this appealed to me, but it was mostly just a joke.

Death Factory came out in 2002, and appears to be a copycat of Resident Evil, which came out the same year. A chemist at the Dyson chemical plant becomes infected with a strange virus, and she is fired and left alone to die. Years later a group of community college graduates decide the abandoned factory is the perfect place to get high and party, but the infected woman from years before is still alive, and responsible for a murder massacre that had Dyson shut down. Now she is living in the Dyson plant, ready to kill anyone who invades her home.

First off, I understand that it's a low-budget horror film... but come on, the woman who was a scientist was wearing a g-string and nothing else as she murdered people in the factory? Had she no dignity to at least throw on a lab coat? And speaking of lab coats, leaving them on couches in a Styrofoam enclosure dose not make it look like a top-secret research lab, nor does ordering high school chemistry classroom glassware and putting it up in various rooms. What kind of virus makes a human grow steel knives for hands and daggers for teeth? And by the dates mentioned, the scientist would've been about nineteen when working there, and I highly doubt that nineteen is the age when you're hired to work in a biological weapons factory.

The characters were hard to care about, so I didn't care what happened to any of them, and the end was like a rip-off of the 1980 slasher Friday the 13th. If you want a funny horror flick to watch with your friends at night, this one is alright, but as far as a good movie goes this one doesn't fit the category.

*** This comment may contain spoilers *** A group of stereotypical teenagers are looking for a place to party, when one girl talks them into going to the abandoned factory on the outskirts of town. When they get there, while inside they they find out that the factory was closed due to a biological chemical accident years earlier, where one worker went insane and killed a number of people there. The girl (played by sexy little Tiffany Shepis in horrible makeup) was turned into some kind of creature with Freddy Krueger- like fingernails and freaky looking dental work. Now she is killing them one by one, and chewing and clawing them into pieces, in full gory detail. Near the end, it's revealed that the girl who suggested this factory as the place for their party is the sister of the girl killing everyone, as she needs their blood to survive. Surprise of surprises.

I rented this because sexy little Tiffany Shepis is in it (and I was at home sick with a flu and bored to tears) but she's only briefly in a few darkly lit scenes, and she's hidden behind blood splattered makeup the entire time. But that's the entire point of this mediocre, zero budget, shot on video flick: it's an excuse to show off some extremely gory effects. Nothing more. Nothing you haven't seen 1000 times before or since. If you're looking for gore and lots of it, rent this one. If you're like me and just wanted to check out Tiffany Shepis again, rent The Hazing. Again. The ending of Death Factory is straight out of the original 'Friday the 13th'.

And that just makes this all the better. This movie was horribly low budget, blessed us with the worst acting I'd ever seen, and peppered with some really horrid sets.

Honestly, this movie is not fit to watch. It is not scary. It is not eve a good attempt. The only decent factor about this attempt was the writing. The story itself was a decent fast-paced tale of zombies created by a virus. While not original by any means, it was a decent production considered it had no hopes of anything better than going straight to video.

Some straight to video ventures are actually quite decent. Unfortunately, this movie is riddled with the low budget disease to the point of resembling a third-grade film project.

It rates a 1.0/10 from...

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Three teen couples that include the expected pairings; the nice, preppy couple, the black couple and the 'bad' couple (who show what bad-asses they are by wearing leather and bandannas), break into an abandoned former chemical lab. You know one of those places one shouldn't go into at night because people always seem to be disappearing there and it has a notorious history of mass murders and unorthodox scientific experiments taking place on the premises. Tiffany Shepis has the role of Alexa, a vicious, white-faced, zombie-like, kinkily-clad ghoul with metal claws who attacks them all. The character was obviously inspired by Melinda Clarke's zombie in RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD III and is fairly well-designed for the budget and engagingly played by Shepis. There's plenty of blood and T&A and the surprise twist at the end is OK, I guess. Of all the films I've seen directed by Brad Sykes and released by Brain Damage Films, this is easily the best one and I somehow sat through every predictable, forgettable moment of it without turning it off. Porn star Ron Jeremy shows up as a drunk bum to help open the movie.

Death Factory starts as flashy annoying git Francis (David Kalamus) & his annoying girlfriend Leticia (Rhoda Jordan) tell their equally annoying friends Rachel (Lisa Jay) & her boyfriend Derek (Jeff Ryan) plus Louisa (Karla Zamudio) & the nerdy yet still very annoying Troy (Jason Flowers) that they are all invited to a party at his house as his parents are away for the weekend, unfortunately his parent's change their mind & they have to find an alternative venue to hold their festivities. Louisa comes up with the perfectly reasonable idea of holding the party in a disused factory that has been condemned as any sensible person would, the group are well adjusted human beings & as such have no problem in holding a party in an abandoned rundown potentially dangerous factory, I mean would you? However their flawless plan goes awry when it turns out that the factory is inhabited by a flesh eating zombie (Tiffany Shepis) that wants to kill everyone it meets, sometimes it's just not your day...

Written & directed by Brad Sykes Death Factory is crap, I'm sorry but it's as simple & straight forward as that. Why is the question I ask here, why do I keep putting myself through this much torture by continuing to watch this sort of absolute crap? The script is terrible, for a start it's very boring, it's slow & the fist 40 odd minutes of this are almost irrelevant while for some reason it takes itself extremely seriously. Add to that the fact that there were many plot holes that bugged me throughout the entire film, for a start the most annoying one was that for some inexplicable reason these idiotic teens couldn't just walk out of the factory once the realised there was a killer running around, I mean why couldn't they just walk out of the door they entered the place through? Is that such a hard notion to think of & execute? Thre is no reason at all for them to have stayed in the factory once things went bad, none whatsoever & I don't buy the 'maybe the got lost' idea either (did these kids have the memory capacity of a goldfish?) so I just kept thinking to myself 'get the hell out of there you annoying idiots', they never did though. I wasn't sure about the killer either, I must admit she looked pretty cool at times but where did the metal teeth come from & the long metal A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) rip-off sharp nails attached to her fingers? The script is as unambitious & threadbare as they come & is merely an excuse to kill a bunch of annoyingly clichéd teens off & nothing more, not much effort was put into it & it shows as the result is a poor low budget straight-to-video horror film of the worst kind that has zero entrainment value beyond seeing how the killer dispatches her victims. Overall I'd say this is one to avoid...

Director Sykes seems to specialise in this sort of low budget straight-to-video horror crap & if the rest of his output sucks as bad as this I hope I never see another one of his films. The character's are awful as is the dialogue, in fact you could turn the sound off Death Factory & still easily understand what's going on it's so simplistic & predictable. Just to add insult to injury there are meant to be a couple of 'twist' endings too including one of the group being a traitor, wow guys I didn't see that coming, & another 'shocking twist' that reveals, wait for it, that the killer in fact isn't dead! Damn what a surprise, what an original 'no-ones ever thought of that before' twist! Does that mean that there's going to be a sequel? I'm shuddering at the mere thought... There's no atmosphere, the entire film looks cheap & unappealing, there's no scares or tension & even the gore is disappointing. Almost of the kills are exactly the same, killer grabs victim, slashes them with Freddy Kruger rip-off razor nails & bites their neck, these scenes feature lots of blood but it's of the splashed around everywhere variety rather than any explicit gore.

The budget was obviously low but there are plenty of great low budget films out there so that's no excuse, is it? For some reason the filmmakers keep shooting scenes in front of the same wall, a wall with a strange sign on it saying 'Nuclear Medicine', eh? I sat there looking at it (hell it was far more interesting than was happening on screen elsewhere) & thinking what the hell does Nuclear Medicine mean?! Basically Death Factory has all the production values of your holiday video. The acting is terrible.

Death Factory is total crap, I'm sorry but that's the way I see it. Sure the killer is OK but she's a blatant rip-off of Freddy Kruger from A Nigtmare on Elm Sreeet & the self mutilated zombie character played by Mindy Clarke in Return of the Living Dead III (1993) both of which are far superior to Death Factory in every way...