Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Lack of good storyline.

A Brilliant Conflict

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

First of all, no one except people below the age of 15 and right wing Christians will ever be scarred of Dani Filth. So a movie with him as the main villain will have that against it from the beginning. But apart from that this is a fun, gory, flawed B-movie.Considering the opening line of this review, you will probably guess that I'm not a big Cralde of Filth fan. I listen to them maybe once a year or so, but there are much more interesting black metal out there by far, and far more interesting artists.The movie is basically an anthology consisting of four segments linked together by a main story about a hypnotist serial killer occultist at a mental asylum, taking his revenge on the people responsible for his incarceration through occult means and with the help of the character played by Dani Filth.I was 19 when this movie came out and I watched it almost immediately. Back then I really liked CoF, even though I would not say I was a fan then either. I would also say that I still think the uncensored version of "From cradle to enslave" is a really neat music video. The point of this is that a movie which CoF are involved in comes with certain expectations when it comes to gore and nudity. And here the movie delivers. I remember that I liked the movie back then and when I re-watched it yesterday I still liked it, even though I have changed my opinion about the band.The movie is very heavy on the gore, contains some nudity and the gore looks rather good for the most part, considering this is a low budget movie. The acting is not good but not terrible either, the music is okay and naturally features songs by CoF, even though there are only two and I think also one intro song to one of their albums. In spite of its cheesiness, the movie also many times manages to get the mood right and although I find it too long it never really gets boring. The main story and the stories of the segments aren't that bad either. There are some really bad effects though, but they are not the gory ones. There are some car scenes with for example a car crash, which I had a hard time telling how it was made, only that it really looked fake. Like the car was cut into the scene in some really weird way.I honestly don't see how you could expect more than a cheesy movie with a lot of gore and nudity from this one. And this is what you get. I really have a hard time seeing how anyone can be disappointed by it. I think that maybe, at least with some individuals, some movies you are just not supposed to like if you are a certain type of person. That is of course not to say that people can't have legitimate reasons for disliking this movie. That is why I said "some individuals."

The creators of this film should be stoned. And I don't mean in the weed way. They had so much going for them: creativity, style, talent - and they had to ruin it all with one scene. The number one rule of film-making, leave alone humanity, is that you do not depict violence against those who cannot defend themselves (ie. children & animals). This movie broke that rule on the later. Did the creators actually think they were cool for depicting the disembowelment of a stray cat and the demon protagonist eating it's entrails? It wasn't necessary, and it wasn't entertaining. Those responsible for this movie shouldn't be shocked when they are ostracized by common movie buffs, to horror fans alike.

In London, Detective Pete Neilson (Edmund Dehn) is investigating several bloody and gruesome murders with all the victims connected to the trial of the serial killer Kemper (David McEwen) that is interned in the Fenham Asylum.Melissa (Emily Bouffante) has one night stand with a sick man she met in a Gothic club and while going to the house her friend Natalie (Eileen Daly) on the next morning, she has the sensation that she is surrounded by demons. Sooner she finds that she carries an offspring of the man.Emma (Emma Rice) and Sophie (Rebecca Eden) go to the house of an old man to steal his money, but their robbery becomes violent when the dweller wakes up.Nick (Louie Brownsell) has a great complex with his beloved girlfriend Nikki (Melissa Forti) because his leg was amputated in an accident. He becomes deranged, gets a leg and forces his doctor to implant it, with tragic results.Richard Neilson (Stuart Laing), the son of Detective Neilson, works in an Internet company and becomes obsessed with snuff movies in a website, where the user can select the means of killing the victim, losing his job. When the site vanishes, Richard seeks information finding the truth about the movies."Cradle of Fear" is a collection of four original, erotic and gory horror tales. Using great special effects, performances and music score, sexy actresses and lots of blood, I liked very much this surprisingly good B-movie, but the Satanism used to entwine the four tales with the investigation of Detective Neilson does not work very well and is the weak part of the tales. The first story is certainly the best one, but I was really impressed with the excellent special effects that in many cases gives the sensation that the violence of the scene is for real. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "Nascido do Inferno" ("Born From Hell")

A tribute to the old anthology movies of the '70s, "Cradle of Fear" is a lot of fun. Filled with monsters, copious amounts of the red stuff, some nudity, a good pace and plenty of imagination, I was left feeling very impressed with this shot-on-video production from director Alex Chandon.Emily Booth appears in the first short-tale about a goth whose one-night-stand with the demonic Dani Filth proves a big mistake. Booth is as delightful as always and I was pleased to see she makes a brief appearance in one of the "Grindhouse" "trailers".Edmund Dehn links the stories together as the slightly seedy Detective Neilson. Dehn delivers a good performance and his role really helps keep the stories linked and interesting.The effects are shoe-string but enjoyable. Quality-wise, they're on a par with those in Brian Paulin's inferior "Bone Sickness".Some will hate this film but I was drawn in by its atmosphere and ambitious scope.9 out of 10.