Kolobos doesn't really have much going for it. I watched it because I was in the mood for a gore movie and thats about all it really has that is good and even then not great.
The story follows a mix of conventional slasher tropes in an unconventional setting that might have been somewhat unique for it's time but been done many times since. Then there is the ending.
The ending(and certain scenes in peppered throughout the movie) made me feel like the movie was either too short or went bad with test audiences so they made this absurd B plot which added 20 minutes to the overall movie that led to a very unsatisfying end. You could remove it all and add a somewhat different ending, one in line with the rest of the movie, and no one would know the difference. Maybe this is a spoiler but the ending is VERY unsatisfying and can't answer the questions that the viewer naturally thinks of.
The characters are mostly insufferable and talk/act as if it was written by someone not of society. Maybe it's just the 90's aesthetic and 90's nature of the characters, but I lived through the 90's and nobody I know was like these folks. Maybe it's a case of an old person trying to write "hip" characters.
Another negative is the "slasher" with embarrassing makeup effects.
It's shot well and the gore is good but thats really all it has going for it. Any tension made by the film is ruined by the ending.
Don't watch this one, you will be upset that you did when the ending begins.
The story follows a mix of conventional slasher tropes in an unconventional setting that might have been somewhat unique for it's time but been done many times since. Then there is the ending.
The ending(and certain scenes in peppered throughout the movie) made me feel like the movie was either too short or went bad with test audiences so they made this absurd B plot which added 20 minutes to the overall movie that led to a very unsatisfying end. You could remove it all and add a somewhat different ending, one in line with the rest of the movie, and no one would know the difference. Maybe this is a spoiler but the ending is VERY unsatisfying and can't answer the questions that the viewer naturally thinks of.
The characters are mostly insufferable and talk/act as if it was written by someone not of society. Maybe it's just the 90's aesthetic and 90's nature of the characters, but I lived through the 90's and nobody I know was like these folks. Maybe it's a case of an old person trying to write "hip" characters.
Another negative is the "slasher" with embarrassing makeup effects.
It's shot well and the gore is good but thats really all it has going for it. Any tension made by the film is ruined by the ending.
Don't watch this one, you will be upset that you did when the ending begins.