Brennan Bailey, Fernanda Dorogi, Jessica Lucas

Three women are stalked by a killer with a grudge that extends back to the girls' childhoods.

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R, 1 hr. 25 min.

Directed by: John Simpson

Release Date: December 26, 2008

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DVD Release Date: January 20, 2009

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  • May 7, 2009
    When three girls are stalked and then kidnapped by a killer they have no idea what or who could have done this that is of course untill there finally brought together in the sameplace do they find out that they all have the same one thing in common and that this might have someth...( read more)ing to do with why they have been kidnapped something that dates back to there childhood now they need to find a way to escape before they end up dead, This movie was in my mind really good and filmed in three different segments so that you see what happens to each girl which i thought was pretty cool not exactly a blood and gore horror movie but up there as a suspense thriller it should be checked out.
  • March 18, 2009
    This was such a little unexpected gem that I suprised myself by actually liking it. Do not expect horror that will have you tearing your eyes out in fear and the suspense is...well suspense but I really enjoyed it. The ideas have all been done so many times before but its still w...( read more)orth watching.
  • March 13, 2009
    Don't let the title deceive you. Amused would be the last adjective I'd use to describe how I think this movie was. On the upside, the first few minutes would probably hold you interested. But by the time the killer is revealed, everything goes downhill, and to warn you, the iden...( read more)tity of the killer is revealed so early that it might have been enough reason to make you leave the theater already.

    I guess the only effect this movie had on me is that it made me more scared of clown stuffies.
  • March 13, 2009
    I really wanted to like this movie, it had some decent moments specially the first two stories but then it just goes down hill with all the plot holes and pointless situations.
    Good production values, decent acting but ¨AMUSEMENT¨ fell flat becoming more DISAPOINTING than AMUSING.
  • January 16, 2009
    Delayed for much, much longer than any passionate horror fan can care for, Amusement sports a trailer than makes it look like a classy though ordinary take on the clown killer pitch. If it were just that, I believe I could have called it worthy of its terminal straight-to-DVD rel...( read more)ease. But alas-- the film we have here, beloved genre fans, is a complete disaster, an embarassing mishmash of ideas, a few of them new, a shitload of them stolen, but all of them good for the garbage bin.

    Good god, where to start? Screenwriter Jake Wade Wall-- oh, hey, Jake! I didn't know you could pen anything worse than When A Stranger Calls!-- drives the film through a commendable trick : splitting up the whole thing in three separate stories, each possessing distinct characters and a distinct menace, only to have them culminate in a last act that should explain everything. In practice, that could be fine-- and I guess none of these segments are truly THAT fuckawful viewed on their own. But piled on top of one another, it is just deadening. Amusement contains WAY TOO MUCH lousy plotting (and not in a fun way) to pass as breezy genre entertainment, even at a brisk 85 minutes.

    Let's see : act one is a subpar Joyride that features the worst acting of the bunch (the boyfriend is especially atrocious), act two, undeniably the less shitty of the three, still feels especially stretched for the sole minute-and-a-half of pounding pulses it offers (oh, there it is, as a promo clip all over the web-- yep, that's the one with the clown, and you *wish* there was a better moment in the whole damn film), and finally, act three is a straight-up comedy. 'Uneven' is a word that HAD to be invented for Amusement. Add to that a climax that is morbidly stupid (the 'Reason Why' ends up being one of the lamest of the decade), last-minute revelations that end up patching nothing at all and a closing voiceover that I CANNOT believe was meant to be taken seriously.

    Even if the absolute worst element of this dreck is the shockingly stale screenplay, there is much, much more crap to dig out of it. Starting with... The Wretched Music. Now, I understand a horror film needs a tense, effective score to channel whatever fear a character feels directly to us viewers, but here, it is completely out of control. The Wretched Music seriously tries wants to steal our attention from the movie : strings kick in waaayyyyy before anything remotely creepy happens, and it never, ever lets up until the much-anticipated ''SHREEEE!!!'' occurs.

    But even in the ''SHREEEE!!!'' department, Amusement is seriously lacking. Hear me out : scares are scarce, and the gore is a bore. While it tries punching up some 'twisted' graphic moments in the last twenty minutes, my, oh my, they are not affecting as much as they feel out of context. But they will prove to be the closest to any kind of satisfaction a horror fan can get out of this puppy.

    And the performers? Well, the men (roles and actors) unanimously suck, so as usual, it's up to the females to provide 'surrogates' for the screaming teenybopper audience that Amusement is aimed at. It's hard to tell if the three lead actresses are good at anything at all with the surprisingly minimal character development that's given, but I'm totally not convinced any of them gave it their all on the set. They aren't noticeably bad (I take that back-- Breckinridge is kind of bad, more often than not), but they leave much to be desired. Then again : cardboard. Only pros can build something worthy out of cardboard.

    There's plenty more bad to cover here (shots that come dangerously close to plagiarism, unsurprisingly flat dialogue, and the interview segment, which for instance, just plain sucks), but you get the idea-- this turd was delayed for all the right reasons. And while I do like abysmal horror films as entertainment, this one is more infuriatingly bad than joyously bad.

    Incidentally, I recommend you to skip it. Shocker.
  • November 22, 2009
    Eh, nothing special, not great, not bad... a little weird and the ending was horrible.
  • November 9, 2009
    AMUSEMENT this failed to deliver me. It was shocking! I think I only watched the entire film as the beginning looked promising. I hoped my fear of clowns would be increased by watching this... how mistaken was I...
  • October 18, 2009
    Even though this wasn't anything spectacular, I thought that this was decent. I don't think it would have worked too well on the big screen as that was what this was originally for. The first 45 minutes really had me going on the edge of my seat. I loved the convoy with the twist...( read more) at the end of that scene and the straight out killer clown in the next. I did not like the Lisa character as she wasn't written too intelligently. Overall, this is a very simple straightforward slasher movie.
  • October 15, 2009
    For a movie that started off with rather too many boring scenes, and some rather so-so acting, it managed to pick up a fair bit of speed during the second half.
    Some rather inspired sets led to a lot of the good stuff this movie had to offer. But it had some genuinely creepy and...( read more) messed up moments, which is a lot better than many horror movies out there.
  • September 5, 2009
    ok sya kaso ang tanga nung killer sa huli.. saya tuloy napatay..

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  • Muktidaya
    February 22, 2009
    Not bad, not good
  • ElDorito11
    October 12, 2008
    This sounds like a movie i wood really want to see.... and possibly own.

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