Berserkers (2014) User Reviews

LET'S MEET AND EAT

[nogodnomasters · 4/10 · 19 May 2019]

The opening of the film, the non-zombie introduction of characters was quite good, with perhaps the best proposal scene I have witnessed on film, it was good for a laugh. After we get through the birthday blues and the rejection, we start with the zombie part which was a satire of other zombie films where Hunter (Jacob O'Brien Mulliken) is an over-the-top hero, a role he has written for himself, i.e. he plays a writer.

The film ends without closure open for a sequel. The film suffered from its budget. It was unpolished in plot and acting. I think Jacob O'Brien Mulliken is on the right track, I felt he didn't think things through, i.e. not know where he wanted to end while he was filming.

Guide: F-word, sex. No nudity. Troma style effects.

B rated at most...

[stevenjporter · 3/10 · 22 July 2021]

So. I want to start by saying, I did kinda enjoy the 80s B movie feel. And while the writing was... Mediocre and predictable, I enjoyed it more than my star rating suggests. The practical effects are both over the top and ridiculously bad all at the same time. But even that isnt why it is 3 stars. It doesnt end. And I dont mean its too long. I mean, it literally doesnt have an ending. It just... stops. Like a book where someone removed the last few chapters. There is no conclusion, not even a bad one, it doesnt tie up a single lose end, and you never get any question answered. It was left open, extremely obviously, for a sequel, and honestly, I would have watched it. But if one exists, I cant seem to find it. So do yourself a favor, and skip this movie. You will thank me for it...

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[BandSAboutMovies · 3/10 · 16 June 2021]

Originally a short called Meltdown, this film follows Hunter, a man who proposes to his girlfriend who turns him down, at which point his friends reveal to him just how horrible of a person she was. And then, as things happen, zombies attack. Then there's a jump into the future and Hunter has become a much more capable man of action.

Set in Somerset, PA, this film follows in the tradition of zombie movies coming from Pittsburgh, Writer/producer/director and star Jacob O'Brien Mulliken was also in the movie Monongahela, which is about the hunt for a creature in the Mon river, which is about a half mile from our house.

I thought the effects for this were pretty solid, even if some of the IMDB comments savaged the entire film. Then again, most of those seem like they're coming from Pittsburgh-based talent who are either upset that they were in the original short and not the remake or those that got screwed over in the process of making this movie. Actually, if you filmed that commentary page, you may have a better movie than this.

Worse than awful

[j-34621 · 1/10 · 22 January 2016]

Sometimes I really wish that IMDb offered negative ratings.

I want a button to push that says "I want my money back!"

Or one that says "I want that hour and a half of my life back!"

Like this is so badly done I want to file a class action suit to make sure these filmmakers never make another film.

This movie would have been better if hey had left the lens cap on.

I try to imagine the production meetings that were made to bring this...thing to life.

"Hey man, I wrote this script. It doesn't make any sense. There is no overall arc, and the characters aren't ever developed. But let's make it anyway!"

I wonder how these crappy independent filmmakers have zero self-awareness.

At no point was this story ever good.

waste of effort

[dprs · 1/10 · 13 July 2015]

I totally love horror videos and have seen dozens! Meltdown was the absolute worst video ever to be produced. The extra actors were so amateur. Heck, as far as that goes, ALL the actors were wannabees. I hope there wasn't a lot of money and effort put into this fiasco. Those who put this video together need to understand that there's a lot of good videos out there they need to compete with. To make a video just for the sake of making a video and hoping to become famous was a waste of their time and my time! My suggestion is to work with a real production crew first before attempting such an endeavor and put more effort into casting for those who know how to perform in front of a camera. The time I spent watching this video is gone forever.

Not Sure Who is Leaving Many Stars But...

[zki-59767 · 1/10 · 13 February 2016]

I'm going to venture a guess that most people leaving ratings and NOT feedback are involved with this horrible excuse of a film and not legitimate reviewers.

I hope every actor involved hangs their head in shame.

I hope the writer is ashamed.

I hope the producers and director have left the country.

This is what happens when you don't have people that respect the art of filmmaking make a film.

I want to destroy every physical copy of this film.

I'm afraid one day, aliens will find this and think this is how earthlings made movies.

Embarrassing.

I can't even watch

[j-89167 · 1/10 · 28 December 2015]

I'm in this movie and I can't even watch it. The writer/director/producer lied the whole shoot. Still haven't been paid. Most of the actors have no talent or just phoned it in. But that's what happens when you hire Union talent that work under the table.

I know SAG has been notified about the actors working without a SAG CONTRACT.

Anyway, this thing will be bad. Don't watch. I know I won't be. Not even using this for my reel. But I mostly feel bad for the people that thought this was a "real" movie. And th SFX are cheese. Not even like campy cheese but just straight up bad.

Save your money.

SOOO HORRIBLE you HAVE to see it!

[AndyVanScoyoc · 1/10 · 13 April 2023]

I really have no idea how these filmmakers (that goes for any of them who crank out this junk...who aren't serious about putting out an even halfway decent film) get the fundage to make such seriously STUPID crap, but this movie is SO over-the-top AWFUL that you HAVE to see it...if nothing else, just so you can laugh yourself silly.

Best with a pizza and loads of people to suffer with; from the acting (are there REALLY guys as pathetic as Hunter, who enjoy being abused by women who obviously don't care about them?) to the editing, to the general content, this movie is a lose-lose from the opening scene.

The best part of the movie was Zeke, the bartender.

He was hilarious, believable (the older generation are probably the only ones who would actually keep their heads on straight if there was a zombie apocalypse) and made the film worth suffering through.

This movie was obviously made to waste money, time and to make you wish you could self lobotomize after watching it.

Stupid, stupid and agonizingly stupid.

Remember that and you might actually have a laugh or two.

Really glad I wasn't in the remake

[fiddlefaddle-77610 · 1/10 · 17 December 2020]

I was in the original production but seeing the reviews for this remake make me so glad the lead actor, producer and director (same person) didn't invite me back to remake this 😂

Don't waste your time.

[MissBellLoria · 1/10 · 3 June 2023]

This movie is so horribly misogynistic, it's not just one character, it's every character, so who ever the writer is has a serious problem with how they write about women. The times it wasn't being misogynistic it was so boring, the other two people I was watching with had a 40-minute debate about a cup they saw in the movie because it was so entertaining. The lighting is sooo terrible, there were times that some people's hair looked like it was glowing.

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Just finished watching this

[luiceebabii · 6/10 · 26 May 2017]

I can forgive a lot of things in low budget films, so I actually enjoyed it.

It really picked up midway and seemed to hit a good stride. Quite frankly Hunter and Callie had more chemistry than Rick and Michonne ever had. My only question is this: (Spoiler?) At the end someone says "This is only the beginning" So, when is the sequel coming out?

Zero budget cannibal zombie attacks

[Leofwine_draca · 2/10 · 5 March 2017]

MELTDOWN is yet another addition to the endless wave of low budget zombie movies currently coming out of North America. This independent, shot-on-video production is even worse than most I've seen, featuring truly terrible camera-work and a general seen-it-all-before vibe that makes it a real chore to watch.

The story is about three friends who find themselves in a wave of cannibalistic attacks. They take refuge in a house, and for the second half of the production the narrative gets bogged down in an endless flashback which adds absolutely nothing to the film other than padding out the running time. A couple of splattery gore scenes does not a good film make; this is real junk.

Low budget poorly acted horribly cast.

[berg-74532 · 3/10 · 14 May 2020]

I'm sure the people involved believed this was not only there big break but also that they captured Romero magic none of which is true and unfortunately probably made some of them to continue trying to be actors. I'm not sure why I'm not sick of zombie movies but I'm not. I more likely will watch a bad zombie movie before watching something I know will be ok. I have to say one thing that was done very well was close up wounds, other then the tiny ladies mans crotch. The wound and bullet removal from the cuckold was very good and my guess is it was a continual closeups for a reason. The tiny blonde girl was the acting star and the friend of the male lead was solid. The rest were poor to horrible and were given roles based on how much money they gave to the project. Unless you have no choice watch something anything else.

Alicia Marie Marcucci

[thedarkestshadow-32785 · 3/10 · 17 May 2021]

The 3 stars are only because Alicia Marie Marcucci is so darned cute. Otherwise this would be zero stars.

Entertaining if flawed indie zombie effort

[kannibalcorpsegrinder · 6/10 · 29 May 2021]

After awakening from a birthday party, a man and his friends discover the news of a viral zombie outbreak in the area and have overrun the streets turning everyone into flesh-eating zombies, and after getting to safety they realize the greatest threat may not come from the creatures as they suspected.

This was a pretty solid if troubling zombie effort. This one is pretty much based solely on the enjoyable zombie action present here which goes a long way towards being fun. The attacks and encounters here are generally fun, with the zombies screaming out of the darkness to bite victims in utterly over-the-top showers of blood spray that drenches everyone around the incident, barricading themselves in a group to shoot at the oncoming hordes in all directions and the battles with the creatures at the campground at the end which uses the swarming tactics to great effect featuring tons of great action. That doesn't take into account the gore and blood-shed on the zombie deaths which range from gunshots blasting their head apart to being run over by cars, machetes run through their bodies, and much more which all work as well as the great make-up effects to give this a lot to like. There are some flaws to be had with this one. The main drawback here is the utterly uninteresting and just plain moronic storyline featuring the guy and his cheating girlfriend that everyone else's aware of. That this is such a cliche move that he's too stupid to realize just comes off as lame and ridiculous, much like the inability to recognize it due to how blindingly obvious it is with the treatment towards his friends and leaving him alone on the birthday to go with the guy from work. This storyline doesn't make any of this endearing or impressive but rather infuriating how stupid he is to take the chances to save her which puts them in jeopardy. That this is thankfully dropped doesn't make the inclusion of this storyline any less uninteresting. The last problem here is the film's sudden change of pace and tone in the second half where it becomes a post-apocalyptic drama about his leadership skills rather than about the zombies. They're taken out of the picture and used as a background threat dealing with either his relationship from before the apocalypse or the strange new cult that emerges out of nowhere and has no real connection to what's come before. That we just throw the zombies away for this bizarre gang of unknown, Bible-toting psychopaths rather than the zombies that had been responsible for so much fun beforehand is a bizarre choice, much like the decision to end the film on such a cliffhanger that obviously sets up the notion of an unfilmed sequel for no real reason, leaving this one to end on a sour, unfulfilled note. These manage to drag the film down the most.

Rated Unrated/R: Extreme Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.