Hurt (I) (2006 Video) User Reviews

Good for what is was, great for research.

[wanabwrestler · 5/10 · 28 April 2016]

Just FYI, this film is made by and stars unpaid volunteers. The producer Doug Phillips usually writes and stars in his movies also.

This film follows a police plain clothes detective as he investigates a crib death after the mother had discovered the dead baby and called nine-one-one in her surprised state. The case is almost dropped, when the autopsy ends up showing suspicious evidence, a natural crib death was ruled out, and the mystery begins.

This wasn't a bad film. Interesting story too. I would have liked to see the end of the mystery stretched out more. I personally would have ended it after the mystery is solved, but a happy ending is always a nice way to end a movie. Could have used a bit more relationship developing though. It seemed added in at the last moment.

Who I would recommend this film to: This film is wonderful for beginning film artists and actors. Great research material for what angles work and don't work, how to get scenes to flow, and for actors to learn what the camera "likes" so as to not rely on editing in their acting (as many do). It is pretty well done for being 100% volunteer work, and I am told most of the Doug Phillips films are made, start to finish, in only one weekend!

**I was given this film on DVD in return for an honest review.

Seriously? This movie is on here?

[lowriderlarry · 1/10 · 28 November 2007]

This is quite literally, the worst independent film I've ever seen. I don't know how it got on here. All it is is some old guy trying to be columbo and make out with young girls! Doug, come on. I really hope that no one else out there will waste their time seeing this thing. I don't really know how this could be put on IMDb. But even more so I don't know why he went through the trouble to put "hurt" on here. As far as camera work goes, I don't think he ever did anything with the camera besides push play. If you've got a not-so-good camera that's fine, but you should at least try to do something with it. His shot choices consisted of mediums and extreme closeups with the camera never moving; nothing else was done. He only used natural lighting, which is fine so do I most of the time, but he didn't do anything to use it to his advantage. So I don't know if you'll read this Doug, but if you do then I think you need to start re-evaluating your film-making style.