SomeoneFilm Review: Reeker, and No Man's Land: The Rise of Reeker
June 15th 2009 00:35
As I explained before, I lost a review of each of these movies, so basically I'm going to just do one review to cover the both of them. Don't worry, you won't miss much, they're basically the same movie.
Premise: A group of people feel a mysterious earthquake, and then finds that they are trapped in a remote desert locale with a demon hunting them.
Now, I watched No Man's Land before I watched the original, so I may have a skewed opinion about it. Both the movies are, and I am not exaggerating, virtually identical in terms of scripting. Even down to the exact same twist/explanation at the end. When I bought these movies I had no idea that they were so similar, so I didn't watch them together for comparison.
However, seeing as this is basically your typical hollywood-style horror movie, I'll be brief. No Man's Land is a complete ripoff of Reeker. Someone has decided that the Reeker franchise wasn't quite dead yet, so decided to add a little bit of a backstory to the Reeker character, and then proceed to basically rescreen the first movie. The whole Reeker backstory from the movie can't have lasted more than 15 minutes, after which they've decided they couldn't be bothered thinking of anything more inventive, and just used the script from the original Reeker film as filler. Like I mentioned previously, the similarities extend right down to the same twist at the end.
Now, I haven't seen No Man's Land recently, so my memory of it is a little sketchy, but overall I thought that the second one was better, simply because of it's bigger budget. While the first has a more cultish feel to it, the second has much more to offer in the gore department, which is really the only reason we watch movies like these anyway.
Overall... I can't really pick which one to recommend. It depends what you're looking for. If you prefer a more cultish tinge to your films, or if you think watching a blatant money-grabbing ripoff would be sacrilege, well then go with Reeker. If, on the other hand, you are after some higher budget gore effects, and don't mind recycled scripts, then No Man's Land is probably a better bet.
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