Botched (2007)

Macabria · **Posted:** Sun Oct 14, 2007 7:05 pm **Post subject:** Botched (2007)

RATING
7
DIRECTOR
Kit Ryan

CAST
Stephen Dorff
Jaime Murray
Sean Pertwee
Jamie Foreman
Geoff Bell

YEAR
2007

RUNTIME
90 minutes

DATE REVIEWED
10 / 05 / 07

Quote:

Botched is a film that really took me by surprise. When I started watching the flick I was under the assumption that it was just a heist comedy, but then 20-minutes in some dude gets his head chopped off by a pair of large sheers, delivering a very bloody and awesome scene. I was hooked and as I continued to watch I was treated by decent comedy, fun characters, lots of gore, and a couple over-the-top killers. How the hell did a movie like this slip by me? Apparently it slipped under the radar for a lot of people, as it only received a small blurb over a year ago on various news outlets, but then it pretty much fell off the planet until recently. Scheduled to hit DVD in Germany and other countries later this year, there's currently no US distribution set, but Darclight Films owns the rights, so it'll likely get a DVD release sometime next year.

Originally titled "13" (after the unused floor that they're stuck in) the film is the effort from first-time director Kit Ryan, and tells the story of a man named Ritchie (Stephen Dorff) who's in debt with the Russian mob after they helped his mother immigrate from Russia and start a new life. A professional thief, Ritchie now has one last job to do for the mob before he's finally set free from the debt, but it'll also prove to be his hardest task yet. Teamed up with a couple goofy brothers, the trio are sent to steal a golden cross from the penthouse of a Russian skyscraper. After successfully obtaining the cross, the trigger-happy older brother makes a scene in the elevator after some people refuse to get off, which eventually alerts security and forces the elevator the stop on the unused 13th floor.

Now the theives have a group of hostages to take care of as they attempt to negotiate with the police via a two-way radio. Little do they know that the person on the other end of the radio is one of two twin psychopathic serial killers (one of which believes he's the reincarnation of Russian ruler "Ivan the Terrible") that make short use of the hostages and would-be thieves. Fans of the UK horror-comedy Severance will likely take a shining to this, as two films are similar in gore and comedic aspects, although this film goes a step further by delivering over-the-top characters and gore sequences. The movie is pretty fun from the start, from the interesting and goofy characters that you either love or hate, to the ridiculous dancing lead killer that has rigged the floor with traps, and uses a variety of ancient weapons to dice up his victims.

The only problem I have with the flick is where most of the film is taken place -- the unused 13th floor -- as it gets a little tiresome seeing the lead characters constantly running from one corner to the other (that all look the same), and sometimes looking far too much like a movie set than it should. It also seemed like they could have done a better job in terms of traps, since we really only get one main trap, which wasn't all that great to begin with either. However, this can be overlooked since there was a lot of time for character development, and managed to deliver a good amount of gore-candy for us fans.

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perkin2000 · **Posted:** Tue Oct 16, 2007 2:05 pm **Post subject:**

This film was so bad I nearly cried. It is like something written and directed by 12yr olds. Idiot ones at that. I saw it for free recently and still felt ripped off. Terrible.

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Tue Oct 16, 2007 9:00 pm **Post subject:**

We have ourselves a box quote right there :googley:

Can you confirm the rip and quality perkin?

perkin2000 · **Posted:** Wed Oct 17, 2007 5:23 am **Post subject:**

Confirmed and the quality is excellent. I saw a TV show last year about the worst places to live in the UK. Architecture students were taken on day trips to the town of Cumbernauld as an example of how not to do it. I suggest if there's any wannabe film makers out there, they watch this for the same reason.

Macabria, if you read this PLEASE don't take it as anything personal, I'd much rather some brave soul like yourself puts this out there rather than people parting with thier hard-earned to endure it.

Films like this tarnish the good name of horror. Actually, a lot of films do, but this one really stamps on its balls.

Koffkongen · **Posted:** Wed Oct 17, 2007 9:36 am **Post subject:**

Do you have a screen or two?

Macabria · **Posted:** Wed Oct 17, 2007 9:37 am **Post subject:**

perkin2000 wrote:

Confirmed and the quality is excellent. I saw a TV show last year about the worst places to live in the UK. Architecture students were taken on day trips to the town of Cumbernauld as an example of how not to do it. I suggest if there's any wannabe film makers out there, they watch this for the same reason.

Macabria, if you read this PLEASE don't take it as anything personal, I'd much rather some brave soul like yourself puts this out there rather than people parting with thier hard-earned to endure it.

Films like this tarnish the good name of horror. Actually, a lot of films do, but this one really stamps on its balls.

perkin2000 · **Posted:** Wed Oct 17, 2007 1:42 pm **Post subject:**

Koffkongen wrote:

Do you have a screen or two?

Deleted the copy I had.

Suprisingly.

AntiHero · **Posted:** Thu Oct 18, 2007 9:48 am **Post subject:**

Man, I wonder why Slasherpool, and UHM gave this such a good review if it is so bad. The reviews on those sites were absolutely glowing, so while I respect the negative comments, because after all everyone is entitled to their opinion, I am going to check this out myself before I pass judgment.

PS: I was pretty stoked to see this already, so we'll see. :roll:

Phantasm · **Posted:** Thu Oct 18, 2007 12:33 pm **Post subject:**

Yeah, I don't agree with Anthros reviews most of the time, but heck it's fun to read his reviews and I check his reviews one or two times at month.

I can't figure him out. Sometimes he gives good rating to bad movies and sometimes he gives bad rating to good movies. Sometimes he is correct.

perkin2000 · **Posted:** Thu Oct 18, 2007 1:57 pm **Post subject:**

of course, everyone's different etc.

Don't say I didn't warn you though

Macabria · **Posted:** Mon Oct 22, 2007 8:59 pm **Post subject:**

*some shit added*
just the blood in scrshoots looks kind of...well, in movie it's more red:) shoots i've made with BSplayer, i dont no why they so...

About movie: for me it's more Horror Action-Comedy. Strange one :deadhorse:

vtwin0001 · **Posted:** Mon Oct 22, 2007 9:48 pm **Post subject:**

perkin2000 wrote:

Architecture students were taken on day trips to the town of Cumbernauld as an example of how not to do it.

They clearly need to go out more of their country... Over here all constructions are a piece of shit, and each time it rains, it get flooded!!! LOL

vnorske · **Posted:** Wed Oct 24, 2007 1:09 am **Post subject:**

Neat!

zanydeath · **Posted:** Wed Oct 24, 2007 7:31 am **Post subject:**

Phantasm wrote:

I can't figure him out. Sometimes he gives good rating to bad movies and sometimes he gives bad rating to good movies. Sometimes he is correct.

Quoted For Truth.

He's weird..seriously. AnthroFred is really schizo that way. I still love reading his reviews. WHY he would give such a simplistic moron movie such glowing praise is anyone's gues.. I hope Hollowed ground is better. He gave that one four stars as well.

Phantasm · **Posted:** Wed Oct 24, 2007 12:34 pm **Post subject:**

well and he gave 4 stars to BAD REPUTATION, which turns out to be good.

It has it's flaws of course, but overall it's a good movie.

Think of it as "I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE" in modern times :wacky:

weasel666 · **Posted:** Wed Aug 27, 2008 2:50 am **Post subject:** Re: Botched (2007)

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spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Wed Aug 27, 2008 3:03 am **Post subject:** Re: Botched (2007)

thanks, mrM's post at fh looked much better though, nfo code is better for posting nfos than code

fixed the screenshots too

weasel666 · **Posted:** Wed Aug 27, 2008 4:53 am **Post subject:** Re: Botched (2007)

spudthedestroyer wrote:

thanks, mrM's post at fh looked much better though, nfo code is better for posting nfos than code

fixed the screenshots too

yeah i took this from scarymule which is a portuguese forum where we all are members of the staff.

Matool · **Posted:** Wed Aug 27, 2008 10:43 pm **Post subject:** Re: Botched (2007)

well, on the contrary I enjoyed it, a lot of scenes are funny and well acted, it's stupid but works fine enough for me :beerchug:

it's an horror comedy, almost zany, and Dorff does a good job !

MrBlonde · **Posted:** Mon Sep 08, 2008 7:43 pm **Post subject:** Re: Botched (2007)

lol, this was so much fun! glad i missed it at first and got the maz version instead.

ta!

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