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Sometimes you just need a film to kill sometime. And this one did that.
Hollywood Kills is the perfect example of a great premise that gets turned to doo doo butter cause of budget and the cast.
A crazy director likes to invite young actors/actresses to his studio. Then he drugs them and hold "Auditions". Where he kills them while filming the kills. This time a young female director in the bunch of aspiring thesbians. So the crazy director takes her nails her to a director's chair. And forces her to watch as one by one her friends are slaughtered.
See sounds decent. Coming out in 2006 this was trying to catch some of the wave of popularity that Saw/Hostel and other films like that had. Just Saw and Hostel had budgets higher than what I paid for my first car and a cast that wasn't found by throwing darts at the Los Angeles phone book.
At least the kills are all practical. The best is a broken champagne bottle shoved into someone's mouth. The worst is when the crazy director cuts the lady director's eye lids off,so she cant shut her eyes. And it looks like those fake "nasty eye" appliances you would find near Halloween at places like K-mart and TG&Y.
Barely and hour and 20 minutes including the opening and closing credits the film still fills too long. Maybe cut the film down to 30 minutes and it would work decently as part of a horror anthology film or an episode of a TV show like Tales from the Crypt,Tales from the Darkside or Creepshow.
The cast... only one person in the cast have I seen in anything before. The actor that was Scutt Farkus in A Christmas Story. And his part is tiny with little screen time.
Overall I say don't buy this.I got it on a set that was 20 horror films for 5 bucks. And feel like even at 25 cents a movie I overpaid for Hollywood Kills. Maybe if you have to see it track it down on TUBI or one of the other FAST apps.
Hollywood Kills gets a D+
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