just watch it!

I like Black Panther, but I didn't like this movie.

Absolutely Fantastic

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

This movie is nothing short of absolute garbage. The corny old style horror host leads us into a movie that is even worse. After about 30 minutes of trying to develop a nonexistent plot and one dimensional characters we finally get to the bats. At this point we find that the bats' bite turns people into some kind of zombie vampire like things (which apparently look just like normal people). Okay, this movie might still have a chance, zombies are cool right? Well, they might be if we ever saw them again. The rest of the movie consists of the characters babbling, or sitting around, or walking around with some dramatic music only to have nothing happen. Not only is this movie uninteresting, it also isn't scary. The few times something actually does attack it can be seen coming from a mile away and usually ends with no more than a single bite. On top of how horrible the script and acting is the film looks like it was shot with some leftover equipment from the Vietnam era. I can understand if the director wanted to give the movie an older look but, in the end it just ends up looking bad and sounding worse. This movie completely fails to pay homage to the 70's style "B" horror movie to which it is modeled after. If your going to produce a low budget film you should at least try and write a script that can old the attention of an audience. If you want to see a good old style zombie flick just go get yourself a copy of any George Romero movie and pass on "The Roost".

I don't know about the rest of you, but once I edited out the framing device, which really ruins the movie (did Ti have to do this for added "commercial" value?), that is, all the black and white inserts, like we're supposed to know we're watching a late show movie, The Roost is truly scary, in no small part thanks to the editing, the use of light and darkness (a bow to the cinematographer), and the best use of space of any genre movie of recent vintage. The ending, of course, stinks. Wish I could have been surprised, but you see this one coming, better to have left him, a la The Sopranos ending, alone on the bridge in the dark, the moon red, the bats gone, everything blocked. I confess that I had to stop watching this one several times because it is so unnerving, especially if you don't know what to expect (and this one caught me cold). What this film needs is a director's cut, and it will be a cult classic, period.

Okay little creeper using the "more is less" approach with quite a wacky premise..four young adults, on their way to a wedding taking a scenic route, meet a dangerous detour when they come across deadly bats(who have formed a colony within the barn of a nearby isolated farmhouse)which turn those they bite into zombies! Character actor Tom Noonan serves as a type of creature feature host for this flick, even interrupting at one point when he found the whimpering(..at the seemingly hopeless situation they face)of brother Elliot(Wil Horneff)and sister Allison(Vanessa Horneff, whose lip sticks out in a pout for most of the duration, as she complains, gripes, moans & groans about this and that..)grotesque. The first victims to encounter an unfortunate demise at the teeth of the bats were the elderly couple who live in the farmhouse and a policeman the group need assistance from in order to reach their car which was wrecked when a bat crashed into their windshield leaving the vehicle's axle locked on a big rock.The film is shot, on digital, entirely in the night which probably makes the bats more effective. I think those killer bats were mostly CGI, but the director has them flapping past the screen and at victims at such a frenzied state, one can barely tell. When you get a good look at the bats on top of a roof window, they aren't as effective..but as a collective swarming around their prey, I think the CGI isn't a detriment. The film really follows the characters as they try to remain out of the path of the bats, but when the zombies pop up out of nowhere that double threat really heightens the suspense. I like the disorienting violin strings as they get under the skin..this is what the director also uses to keep the viewer on edge. Not a bad way to waste about 75 minutes..looks like a little indie horror flick that might be featured within the "8 films to die for.." collection(whether or not that's a compliment or insult depends on the mixed response those film so often receive). The gore, if you're wondering, comes from the zombie flesh ripping and blood spatter.

Pretty lame. Young people take a detour and become stranded. Duh, sound familiar? Simple formula; lousy acting. No elements of fear or fright till the last fifteen minutes or so. THE ROOST is part of a Friday night fright show on WDIE TV hosted by Tom Noonan. Four friends are on their way to a friend's wedding and decide to take a short cut that ends up being a detour. After running the car off the road, the four find what amounts to be a deserted barn. Something is not quite right. The rafters are lined with thirsty vampire bats that attack and turn their prey into the undead. Cast members: Karl Jacob, Vanessa Horneff, Sean Reid, Wil Horneff and John Speredakos.