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I'm going to keep this simple: This is NOT a good movie.

I'm not going to put any spoilers in here, because everyone else kinda did that. I'm not going to explain the characters or the story line, because others have done it, and there isn't really much to explain. But here's my take on it:

The story is bad, the camera work looks like someone shot it with an iPhone, the script seems like it's mostly ad lib, there is next to no gore at all (at least for a movie this bad, you would think that it would be heavy on the gore), the acting is HORRID, the characters are vastly underdeveloped, the interactions make no sense, the movie itself drags for the first half hour, and then when it picks up it is almost comical, there is NOTHING believable about this film--it's just a flat out mess.

I didn't give this a 1 because I've seen a LOT of bad movies in my day, especially of the horror genre. However, this movie didn't get a 1 out out of 10 simply because I've seen worse movies to compare it to, not because it wasn't really bad.

Read the other reviews, and compile them all into one. Everyone is telling the truth all at the same time, trust me. If you like rustic independent films shot by film students, then this is right up your alley. If for some reason you want to see a really good horror film, either just because you like horror films or because you want to kick Halloween off with a bang, don't waste your time.

As said many times before, this is not coming from anybody who takes pleasure in hating a movie. In fact, quite the opposite, this is coming from somebody who tries to see good in anything that's bad regardless of how strong any negative feelings are. Eaters is one of few movies in some time where there is nothing to say redeeming about it.

It is hard to say where Eaters failed most heavily, but the acting is a definite contender here. Atrocious isn't describing it enough, with the yellow T-shirt guy and the biker leader agreed tied for the worst performances, the former looking like he both didn't want to be there and didn't have a clue as to what he was doing and the latter is more irritating than menacing. Everybody looks disengaged and stumble constantly through their lines, giving the already crass and awkwardly written dialogue- that is enough to make even a toddler feel dumb- even less fluidity than it already suffered from. The cardboard, stereotypical characters were not worth giving a toss about, they're all annoying and the bikers have no sense of presence and instead behave like idiots. The missing girl isn't on screen anywhere near long enough to make one care properly about the situation the characters are on or the basic story.

The story is another massive failing, there is nothing scary, suspenseful or tense about it, structurally it's choppy, a lot of scenes are so mind-numbingly stupid and pointless it was insulting and it just drags on and on with scenes stretched to interminability. There is nothing competent about the direction, which is literally all at sea, nor about the filming. The opening is alright, but everything else visually is unfocused to a dizzying degree, was starting to wonder whether the cameraman was drunk or something. Scenery is basic and drably lit, and the sound is so flat that hearing what was being said was difficult and sometimes like somebody trying unsuccessfully to tune a radio.

Overall, horrendously bad with nothing good to say in its favour. As someone who tries to be fair when viewing films/movies/shows Eaters really has to be one of the worst movies seen in quite a long time. 0/10 Bethany Cox

Low budget movies are one thing, but total lack of acting talent is another. Usually you can find one "actor" that has a modicum of chops, but this is ridiculous. It's as if no one has ever acted a lick. Probably none of them have and they are all friends/relatives of the director. I could've done better and I'm sure I did even in grade school plays.

Too many other movies to watch to waste 90 minutes on this train wreck.

I would say I've seen worse, but I'm drawing a blank.

I will say remember the director's name: Johnny Tabor. That way you can avoid anything else he may have the misfortune of writing and/or directing.

It's been a very long time since I've seen such horrific acting, casting and directing. To find all three in the same film doesn't surprise me when a 'Biker Gang' consists of four normal looking men trying to look imposing and missing by a mile. As a biker myself, I'm used to seeing stereotypical representations of motorcycle riders, but this just made them look like fools. The plot is (you'll be unsurprised to hear) a common one that frankly has been done a lot better in other movies. The characters are as weak and two dimensional as the acting and the narrative and script appear to have been written by teenagers without a firm grasp of what making a film should entail. Unless you enjoy watching paint dry or grass grow, I'd give this shocking excuse for a film a wide berth. Low budget doesn't have to mean low quality, it's just a shame no one reminded the director and production team associated with this disaster.

Personally I'm a fan of low budget movies, especially because of the fact it's fun to watch. 5 kids roll out and get caught up in the middle of no where at a rest stop. One of the girls disappears and they're forced to look for their long lost friend. The acting is great, I enjoyed the discourse and odd nature of the bikers and the bunch. The wig on the main guy cracked me up, it was too rich. They're your classic villains without a cause type characters.

This kind of reminded me of a hills have eyes with a different nature of villains in terms of choice. I like the male and female main protagonist mainly because of being capable of putting you in the willing suspense of disbelief. There was a commitment there that made it entertaining to watch.

The Villains reminded me more of the Strangers with hats. Very creepy and somewhat 1930's Halloween type costumes. Cryptic and Dark in demeanor. What made this a good film for even it's lowest of budgets is the fact the actors were so committed to telling a good story. Think you'll enjoy it if you give it a chance.

It's obvious ANARCHYSOAP worked on, or acted in this garbage film. I find it interesting he mentioned character commitment, because while watching this piece of 5hit, I kept laughing at how the actors had absolutely ZERO conviction and telling my girlfriend about it over and over. Especially the least talented guy in the yellow shirt who was supposed to be getting married. He was the absolute worst, with second place going to the annoying 5hithead who gets tied up in the barn. You basically want to see this cast getting killed in the most brutal of ways, minus the girl because her body was pretty rock'n, and she had an attractive yet odd Maggie Gyllenhaal vibe going on.

The first few scenes were nicely shot as the Mustang pulls into the rest area, and it makes you think it might be starting out good, and then it just collapses after the girl disappears. I've never seen a more disjointed film. Like 10 minutes of two idiots looking around, and you're thinking, wtf happened to the damn biker gang guy, or this guy, or this girl? I mean really stupid direction and pacing that's just awful. Mostly because instead of fleshing the story out, they added filler. I'd say 85% of this dung was filler.

As others have mentioned, laughably long scenes of people hearing others screaming, and looking as if they hear nothing. It reminded me of WCW wrestling with Hulk Hogan seeing the image of the ultimate warrior in his mirror, yet Erik Bischoff couldn't see the warrior. WHA WHA WHAT???

SO, endure this feces at your own risk. You have been warned.

To start, if I could give it a zero, I would.

Absolutely terrible acting (yellow shirt and bad wig in particular, if you've already seen it) almost no plot to speak of, and heavy reliance on creepy masks in order to justify it as a "horror" movie, with no other actual horror or suspense to speak of.

Anyone who actually recommends this movie either played a hand in making it, is in denial, or possibly so extremely sheltered that this is the ONLY movie they have ever seen, and thus have nothing to compare it to.

If possible, I'd give it .000001 stars, because the only thing remotely scary about it is how terrible the acting and plot was.

A group of these young friends, while on a road trip stumble into a biker gang. On their way to find one of their friends, after she's gone missing, they find themselves lured into a trap, now turning their nightmare into something more sinister as they come face, to face with the supposed "Eaters" One plain sentence can pretty much sum this entire movie up. What a load of crap. This movie was just.. terrible. To start off, the acting. The acting in this movie was absolutely atrocious, and words can't describe how painfully obvious it was that these "actors" had the slightest clue on how to act. Their line delivery was terrible, their reaction acting, as well was dreadful, and their all around delivery of their characters was God awful, and just painful to sit through. On Top of that, the characters they acted as were flat out, to the core, completely clichéd. You have your typical bunch of clichéd characters, at this point, you could literally care less about. This film just delivers the same copied group thrown into the same, boring situation, just another time. The entire plot of this film was mixed together with clichés, and to top that off, it was presented in the most atrocious of ways. You have the same, agonizingly old situation where a bunch of characters are stuck in the middle of nowhere, more specifically, the desert. And you have the same old situation where they're being hunter by killers. The only thing that this movie differs with, is an execution of the same exact cliché, only in a more agonizingly boring, and convolutely ugly way. The pacing in this movie just threw any interest out the window completely, as we have an unwanted mixed bag of which sends the storyline, overall to be a horribly slow, slow movie. We barely see these "Eaters" until the 30 minute mark of the film, even then, we barely really get to see them at all. The film makes itself even more pointless as we get barely ANY story whatsoever. We literally watch these strangers of characters be thrown with these strangers of killers. What makes matters even more worse is the budget. With such horrible elements of the film, we get the horrid elements with an even more horrid budget. The cinematography was atrocious, most of the shots couldn't even focus, making things look blurry. And for the most part, we get ugly shades of yellow throughout this entire film, making even the smallest of things look ugly, and simply unsettling, and not in the good way. And finally, the audio.. Half of this film, the audience struggles to hear what their trying to say as it pans in, and out constantly, making it not only frustrating, but angering, and annoying.

In conclusion.. what an atrocity. I can honestly say this is one of the worst, in not the worst horror films of 2015. Terrible, God awful acting, horrible elements, lazy writing, ugly technical work, and all around a jumbled mess of a supposed "film" I honestly can't recommend this under any circumstances, you're better off watching a high school film of a horror film, in all honesty, as this proves to just be another one of Lionsgate's dump films.

I really wanted to like this film. The plot seemed decent and i found the villains pretty creepy. The acting in this film though is shockingly bad. I mean really, really bad. There isn't a good way to describe it other than it's like watching a high school play, but in all honesty most high school plays have better acting. Marcelle Bowman was the only decent actor in the cast. The dialogue and delivery was just horrible from everyone else in the movie. There are quite a few plot holes as well.

All in all, this could be a good candidate for a remake with some good actors and a new screen writer.

Where to begin with this mess, the acting is atrocious, the audio quality terrible, and finally the camera work and editing. I'm not going to spoil anything because to you are going to have to see this movie to see how truly bad it is. As everyone has said it actually starts off strong with good shots of the main characters and their mustang, a little background of the main characters, and it really feels like it is professional grade and you are in for a treat. Then without spoiling anything once they hit the rest stop (it happens like 5 minutes in) everything goes downhill. It seems as soon as they step out of the car they all forget how to act. The 2 girls have to go to the bathroom and we are shown these "scary" "intimidating" bikers. They of course hit on one of the girls are she comes back from the bathroom, and at this point while cliche the movie still looked ok. Later on our main characters have another run in with the biker gang and this is where I realized one of the major problems with this film. First off the acting obviously and the delivery of their lines. Nolan (the main man) has a gun to the bikers face and he trips and stumbles over his lines and it got to the point where a pistol sitting on a pillow would be more intimidating. To be fair to the cast the dialogue is so bland and basic if a middle school student were to write some of these sentences they would receive an F. It is so uninspired and vanilla I don't blame the actors for not caring about what they were saying. The second main problem with this film is throughout the entire 90 minutes the audio is so bad you have to struggle to hear what the characters are saying. The music blares at some parts or the music is too quiet and you can hear the transition from background music to the inserting of the audio recorded with their five dollar microphones. This was most apparent in the first ten minutes when it is showing the title "Eaters". They are talking in the car but you cant hear a word but it's not like your missing much with the uninspired dialogue. Finally the third biggest problem with "Eaters" was the camera work and their editing. All of the action scenes are unfocused or shaky. There is even a point in the movie where you can hear the camera man's footsteps! As for the editing this was glaringly off in the fight scenes, if you can call them that. Every time someone was punched or kicked it was like watching the 1960 superhero shows. The punches were pushes with the punching sound played way too loud. The same goes for the kicking. The only thing they did right was the gunshots and the angles with that. This movie had so much potential and that is why I am so angry and disappointed with this movie. The pacing is what kills the horror aspect of this movie. What I mean by pacing is how fast we are shown vital parts of the story so it can flow. It takes us 30 minutes to get to the "real villains". We are a third of the way through this movie and we are just introduced to the main villains. This is quite the problem but don't worry the writers decided to cut out silly things like a back story or what they really are or how long they have been living there. By doing this it creates shallow villains that aside from the masks are not scary. In the end they leave so much left unexplained and it leaves you with this annoying feeling in your gut. Along with a weak plot that after a while becomes more lost than the main characters. The plot seems to be forgotten at BackHeel. They began to introduce so many new things, characters, and events I had to check what time the movie was at. Once I did this I was concerned with how little time was left and how much they still had to go into detail about and explain and how much had to be resolved. At the very end of the film I had literally 23 questions that weren't answered. Of the 23 about 13 were vital to the plot while the rest were just little nitpicks. While the problems above would made any genre of film terrible those along with terrible pacing and a forgotten plot absolutely destroy it's chances of being a decent horror film. The worst part about this movie is what it could have been. I would be brave enough to see a remake if they decide to do one but if you're looking to kill 90 min, I would still not recommend this movie but don't take my word for it, if you think you are brave enough(and the movie is free) give it a shot.

I wanted to turn it off from the start but stopped myself from doing so because I wanted to see what happened. I wanted to know what they were. From the title I just assumed they were zombies or something, but I was wrong. The story line is the same story that we have been seeing and hearing for years. I sit here all of the time wondering when they are going to come up with new ideas. They keep making the same boring stuff over and over and over again. *yawn* Anyway, the acting was so bad that I wonder if they even know how off key and bad they actually sound when they are saying their lines. Honestly, I don't know what was worse, the boring over used story line, the bad acting or the biker dude's ugly fake hair. Oh well, if you want a good movie, this isn't it. If you want to waste some time, this is the movie for you. Bad, just bad.

I appreciate this type of film for it's simplicity. The actors are a bit green, the editing could have been tightened-up, the scoring could have intensified certain scenes and I might have enjoyed a bit more expansion or backstory on the masked ones. It had elements not too far removed from TCM and Hills/Eyes, but the suspense was a bit subdued and the antihero iconography couldn't seem to find it's footing. Nonetheless, nothing really pulled me out of the story and I enjoyed it for what it is - a novice indie road thriller that managed to tell it's tale without Hollywood money or big-name actors. So, for me, this film didn't suck at all, and unlike other reviews, I don't hold it up to any expectations. I know what it takes to get a film made and even tougher to get some kind of distribution - theatrical or not - so, hat's off to the filmmakers for a decent ride. Keep rockin'!

The only good thing I can tell about this film, that it has an interesting plot. Sadly, that's all. The acting is so poor, the props are trash, and did I just hear the cameraman's footsteps? Some scenes are very amateur, like it was filmed only once, and nobody cared about the quality. And back to the plot. Actually, I really liked the main idea, it seemed very mysterious...and, it still is, because there are no further information about those masked men. Well, I think it was so awful I nearly enjoyed it!

Fun fact: I wanted to watch an another movie with the same title, accidentally opened this.

The only good thing about the Movie is that you wanted to know what was gonna happen. What were these "people". But even on that you dont get an answer. Resulting in you watched a boring story , pretty unbelievable and not scary. With terrible acting. I thought for once to not look at the rating here on imdb before watching . Unfortunatedly i should have.