Albino Farm
College students exploring the Ozark Mountains for a school assignment, stumble upon a group of scary, redneck cave-dwellers.
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- Cast:
- Tammin Sursok , Chris Jericho , Richard Christy , Duane Whitaker , Sunkrish Bala , Alicia Lagano , Kevin Spirtas
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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
To me, this movie is perfection.
If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.
Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.
I couldn't begin to tell you how many times I've been to the real Albino Farm, but it has to be dozens! It was a favorite hangout for teens and college kids during my college days back in the 80s, mostly due to its reputation for hauntings.This film presents a fresh new take on the Albino Farm, as the old legends I remember had more to do with ghosts and satanism, and less to do with cannibalistic mutants. The film is an exercise in the grotesque but avoids much of the cliché gore that is so common in the slasher genre. Unfortunately, the story suffers from underdevelopment, doesn't really delve much into who the mutants are or how they got there, although I did like the mystery touch they applied to the Revivalist mutants in the final scene (would they kill the girl, or accept her as repentant, would they show her mercy or mortal judgment?) There was also a lot of room for development in both Chris Jericho's character "Levi" and the character of the mute boy, which I wish they would have explored a little more. But hey, it's a slasher film, so what do you expect, Oscar-worthy writing?I watched this film with a magnifying glass (metaphorically speaking), eager to see just how many places and buildings I recognized from those old college jaunts, and it brought back tons of memories! I was pleasantly surprised to find some of it was actually filmed at the real Albino Farm. The round stone tower that the kids call the "watchtower" in the movie is probably the most iconic feature of the real Albino Farm. We used to climb that thing and hang out all night on top of the tower. The film never really shows the top of it very well, but it is topped with what look like castle battlements, leading some locals to believe the farm may have served as a strategic site during the Civil War, though I'm not familiar with any battles being fought at that location. Most of the other structures in the film are not actually found at the Albino Farm - there used to be two houses and one shack, as well as a barn, some chicken coops and the iconic tower, but the houses both burned down or were demolished decades ago. The last time I was there, probably fifteen or twenty years ago, the barn, the tower, the coops and the shack in the south woods still remained, while there were only foundations left of the main house and the shack at the north edge of the central field, which is just west of the tower. Today I'm not sure than anything but the tower still remains. I've been over every square inch of that place dozens of times, and I can state with nearly absolute certainty that there is no cave there. I believe the cave scene might have been filmed at Fantastic Caverns, a few miles northwest of the Albino Farm (which itself is actually right at the northern edge of Springfield, about half a mile due north of the Greenlawn Cemetery).Most of the ghost stories about the farm seem to refer back to that era, if they don't necessarily originate from that era. One old tale told that the farm was once used as a psychiatric institution that housed some albino patients, and that the farm got its name from that. That tale is probably closest to the theme in the movie, though the tale goes on to suggest that the farm is haunted by the spirits of the patients who died there. I don't think there's much historical support for that story, although it was quite fun to spread around back in the day! Another tale has it that there was an albino slave who killed himself by jumping from the top of the tower, and that it is his spirit that haunts the farm.Also common were stories of Satanism. There were numerous examples of satanic graffiti all over the walls of the now-demolished shack at the north edge of the field, and I personally once witnessed a ritually mutilated dog wrapped in a sleeping bag and partially burned in a fire circle in the same location after the shack had been torn down. But for the most part, I don't think there was any real satanism going on in earnest out there, I suspect it was mostly just kids trying to add to the reputation of the area. But whether it was kids being stupidly violent, or whether there was real occult activity, the real Albino Farm has long enjoyed a rich reputation for the paranormal, without even bringing mutants into the mix! Are all the ghost stories true? Who's to say?
When a WWE Wrestler is the "and" at the end of the starring credits, its gonna be bad. This worthless piece of trash is filmed in a town in Missouri where they supposedly have this "Albino Farm" that is of legend somewhere in the Osark Mountains. Everybody there is inbred or has some type of physical deformity. The Main characters are a joke. Four college kids researching rumors in the Osarks - Stacy, Brian, Melody, and Sanjay - for a class assignment. WTF? What school are they going to? Then Brian, the jerk, wants to make fun of some rednecks so they go into this revival and sit there and talk to a guy that looks like Chris Elliott in Scary Movie 2. Then they go into town to eat and meet a girl with hoofs for hands. They then split up and one team talk to Chris Jericho to take them to the Albino Farm. Then comes the first redeeming quality of the movie - Melody flashes the hicks to get them to go. As this goes on and on, on the albino farm, there are disfigured people who want to kill everyone and then Stacy, who was clearly a B cup earlier in the movie has opened her polo to partially expose her now obvious D cups to become the second most redeeming quality of the movie - you don't see them, but they bounce a lot. In the end almost everyone dies, and Stacy goes crazy. This movie was an absolute travesty and I REALLY want the $5 I spent at Blockbuster (This was a new release?) and the 95 minutes I wasted on this back. I think Chris Jericho owes me.....
Albino Farm starts as four teens are driving along in the middle of nowhere in the name of research for their rural America project of some sort or another, after suffering a puncture & stopping off at a gas station for repairs the four friends learn of a local legend concerning a so-called 'albino farm' which intrigues them & they feel they could make a good project out of the legend & decide to stick around the area to investigate. The four split up with Stacey (Tammin Sursok) & Sanjay (Sunkrish Bala) asking some questions around town while Melody (Alicia Langano) & Brian (Nick Richey) head out to the albino farm itself after some locals offer to take them there. Once there however they discover a dark & terrifying secret while back at the town it seems not one normal person lives there as things get creepy for our teen protagonists...Written, produced & directed by the pairing of Sean McEwen & Joe Anderson this is a pretty poor clichéd ridden backwoods mutant Hillbilly teen horror slasher that has little to nothing going for it. The opening twenty odd minutes is a collection of horror film clichés with a group of city teens driving along in the middle of nowhere, a punctured tyre, the amazing revelation that their mobile phones don't work, a slightly weird gas station attendant, a sinister legend & a incomprehensible desire by the teens to investigate. This feels like a carbon copy of the opening of Wrong Turn (2003) & then once the albino farm is mentioned it takes absolutely ages to get to it which makes for a very boring thirty odd minutes as anyone in the audience is well ahead of the game & knows that's where the film is going to end up & the fact it takes so long to do so just kills any interest, tension or momentum the film had built up. Then once the mutants turn up you can throw in a large dollop of The Hills Have Eyes (2006) & it's sequel with lots of running around in caverns at the end where there are lots of conveniently placed bottles of propane with which the heroine can use to eliminate the mutants, now who left them just lying around? The character's are all horror clichés & it's very predictable as to who will be the lone survivor, the plot is poor with not much reason behind anything, there's no reason behind the albino farm itself, no reason behind the mutants, no reason behind the deformed townsfolk, no reason for anyone to kill anyone & there's even a rubbish ending that makes no sense.I have a couple of big problems with Albino Farm on the production side of things, first of all once the film switches to the albino farm it becomes incredibly dark & I found it was almost impossible to follow what was going on, the mutants themselves never say anything so there's never any dialogue & they just scream & grunt & it becomes really annoying as there's like a straight twenty minute stretch of near darkness with quick editing & nothing on the soundtrack but grunts & screams. Then there's the low body count, only three people die on screen, someone gets a hook through their mouth, someones arms are broken & head twisted around, two character's arms are sewn together but little else in the way of gore. I also have no idea why it's called an albino farm, there's no albino's there & it's not even a farm either.I would suspect that this had a low budget & it shows with a straight to video look, it's competent but unspectacular. Apparently filmed in Missouri. The cast aren't great with ex Home and Away regular Sursok quite nice looking while Chris Jericho was a WWF wrestler I believe at one time.Albino Farm is a poor low budget horror film with clichés aplenty, a rubbish story that doesn't make any real sense & a low body & nudity count that doesn't help matters either. Very little to recommend here I'm afraid.
Four college friends decide to stop of in a bizarre back-woods town full of people with birth defects while heading deep into the Ozark Mountains for a class assignment, entranced with these 'freaks' the group decides to investigate further much to their own detriment. The film is based, albeit extremely loosely, on the real Albino Farm. Also for any wrestling fan who only want to see it for Chris Jericho, you'll be disappointed as he's not in the movie much despite getting top-billing.This is a dark film. Not really in subject matter, just that a good deal of the last half of the film is night time and more than a tad hard to see. This of course hampered my enjoyment of the film somewhat, but what I could see wasn't all that bad for a low-budget "Hills Have Eyes" clone. Some of the special effects were surprisingly effective (not counting the atrocious cgi towards the end of the film) and the acting was mediocre, yet well done enough for a film of it's ilk. There's absolutely no doubt that this movie won't set the world on fire, but it's competent enough to warrant a rental for undiscriminating fans of 'hillbilly horror'.Eye Candy: Alicia Lagano's body double briefly flashes her breasts and Bianca Barnett gets topless but she's in 'pig bitch' make-upMy Grade: C-MTI DVD Extras: Commentary by Co-writer, directors, producers Joe Anderson and Sean McEwen & co-producers Barry Curtis and Jason Stewart; a 24 & a half minute Behind-the- scenes featurette; a written essay on the legend of the farm; cast & crew bios;and trailers for this movie, "Pandemic", "Metamorphosis", "Killing Ariel" & "Cash"