This movie was so bad! The gore was pretty cheesy, the acting was terrible - every time someone was killed, we busted out laughing at how horrible it was! I agree with the other poster tho - the strip club scene was pretty amusing. However, it was a like a train-wreck, we couldn't stop watching it. I gave it a 4 only because we laughed and enjoyed ourselves making fun of it. The ending was pretty dorky and sort of set it up for another movie (god help us). The commentaries/making of were funny too - they spoke like they were making this million dollar blockbuster and talked about how great the special effects were (they weren't, trust me). Overall, a good movie to watch when you have nothing better to do and want to laugh at something campy.
22 Reviews
Best strip joint murder scene in the history of slasher movies...
Phillemos3 September 2006
Warning: Spoilers
...And if that's the best thing you can say about this movie, then that pretty much tells you all you need to know. Jolly Roger, a homicidal pirate from the year 1719 or something like that, gets resurrected by some teens drinking and carousing on the beach. He goes on a rampage, kills four of the six teens (the other two escape and become the leads of the movie) and then goes on a decapitation spree in the oceanside village of Cutter's Cove. He's apparently recognized all the people he kills as descendants of people who stole his buried treasure back in the 1700s -- because in today's modern society, everyone's family has lived in the same town for 300 years. And then he goes to a strip joint and kills a stripper and the bouncer. Whatever. His big ruse is that he's green and looks like Kermit the Frog with a pirate's costume and facial hair, so all the people of Cutter's Cove probably laugh themselves into getting decapitated by him. And the movie looks like it was filmed in a two-block area of a depressed fishing community. You know this is a bad movie when SciFi Channel makes it the centerpiece of its Saturday night lineup, but doesn't re-run it at 1 a.m. like it does most Saturday night features. I'm giving it a 2 only because Jolly Roger switched things up and amputated the strip joint bouncer's arm, then bludgeoned the guy to death with it -- a nice change of pace from the usual decapitations and a rather entertaining scene all the way around.
Can't decide if this movie sucks or is just so-so.
tbkemp16 June 2005
This movie is pretty much a remake/homage (or more honestly, a ripoff) of John Carpenter's The Fog. The acting and make-up are pretty decent, but the continuity is horrendous. I realize logic isn't something you should expect in a horror movie but the many flaws are clearly due to oversight, inattention or downright laziness. It also has one thing I can't stand. At one point the local police chief notices a security camera and reviews the footage hoping to get a glimpse of the killer. Well not only does he get a glimpse, he gets to see 2 separate murders from 7 different angles including the killer's and both victim's POV. Nice.
I love b-grade movies but unfortunately this movie doesn't suck enough to qualify. But it isn't good enough to qualify as a decent straight-to-video horror, either. I guess the best compliment I can give it is this: The production quality of Jolly Roger: Massacre at Cutter's Cove makes Bog Creatures look like Legend of Chupacabra.
I love b-grade movies but unfortunately this movie doesn't suck enough to qualify. But it isn't good enough to qualify as a decent straight-to-video horror, either. I guess the best compliment I can give it is this: The production quality of Jolly Roger: Massacre at Cutter's Cove makes Bog Creatures look like Legend of Chupacabra.
A short review of this picture
Raymond-Newby2 January 2007
A rather jolly film if you pardon the pun, but not really very frightening. The plot is very reminiscent of "The Fog". A dead pirate comes back and kills descendants of his crew who mutinied against him 300 years earlier. It's a film to watch if there is nothing else on the TV. Don't take it too seriously and treat it as a bit of fun. The acting is not of a great standard. There would certainly not be any Oscar nominations for this picture. I haven't heard of any of the cast although the leading lady, Kristina Korn is quite pleasing on the eye. The decapitation scenes, of which there are many are humorous but certainly not scary.
Review: Jolly Roger: Massacre at Cutter's Cove(2005)
crueltwistoffate18 September 2005
Ah, low budget horror like everyone knows...most times it's very awful and sometimes...it's really great. Jolly Roger, despite a dumb title is actually a pretty great little film. For real it was everything I was hoping it would be after being burnt one time before on an Asylum production (the same company that made Jolly Roger) with Scarecrow Slayer which I was disappointed with. Now back to this film, I have to really give it up to the director of this flick, Gary Jones, for really making this film look like a real film(with lots of cool camera movements). Most Direct to Video films don't have that since they're all shot on digital now and so most directors use the point an shoot but rarely do you get a sense of movement to the film. So I was really feeling the camera movements which gave this film a certain edge above the rest of the DtV films I've seen. Now I have to say this is one fun movie, I was just loving every moment of this flick. It's fun, gory and pretty well made. The film gets almost everything right right from the start by showing killing and boobs just in the opening minutes. That's always a plus in my book. The script is really quite good and has a pretty good story behind it. Did I see the future plot lines coming from a mile away? Of course but who cares...I had a blast getting there anyway. Man, I just really enjoyed this flick. Everything about it screamed I know what the fans want to see so we're going to give it to them...and that really makes me happy. This film knew everything that was expected and gave us more...great over the top gore, nudity and really cool deaths. Is this film gonna the most well regarded horror flick ever? No, but it does know what it is and what it's not. It's a great little horror film with a pretty story. The acting...almost everyone is right on except for the Woman who played the Mayor...god, she couldn't act for crap..but she dies so all was forgiven. The two leads, Tom Nagel and Kristina Korn, were great except for Tom who had a lot of off moments in this film were it looked like he was "acting". Kristina was great, I just loved her. She handled her part really well and I actually liked her character in a certain way ,that I've never seen a low budget horror film female lead, she played her kinda of scared, kinda weak, and always worried. She was the real surprise of the movie, I actually believed that she could be a real person while Tom I feel, couldn't keep up with her which is kind of sad because I feel it would have really made this flick even better. Another small beef was with Jolly Roger himself, I mean he looked cool and all except that I think they should have altered his voice a bit and made it deeper and more eviler. When he first shows up looking all bad ass and stuff you know he's gonna be one cool mother but then he talks and it's like"what was the hell was that?" His voice really doesn't match the look of the Jolly Roger. It's kinda hard to take him seriously as a threat when he speaks like a wimp. But he hardly talks so it's all good.Much Props to Gary Jones again for making an actually well directed, very few bad actor filled fun ride of a horror/ slasher movie. I really liked this flick a lot...I can't wait to start spreading the good word about this film...I was really impressed with it.
My Rating: A Bad Ass flick. Man, this flick has it all and then more. It's a fun blood filled ride with some actually great directing and some solid acting from most of the cast (except for a few) and just plain fun. This is a flick for horror guys like me that know what we want to see and delivers with shining colors. Great show.
My Rating: A Bad Ass flick. Man, this flick has it all and then more. It's a fun blood filled ride with some actually great directing and some solid acting from most of the cast (except for a few) and just plain fun. This is a flick for horror guys like me that know what we want to see and delivers with shining colors. Great show.
Not half-bad
BrandtSponseller21 January 2007
This is another one of those in-betweeners--similar to Kali: Tears of a Clown or whatever the hell the name of that film was . . . oh, yeah--after working up the energy to click a couple times, I see the proper name of that one was just Tears of Kali. An in-betweener is a film that's not low-budget-crappy enough to be directed by John Specht, but no major studio put 20 million dollars into this puppy, either, so you can't expect something as slick as, say, I Know What You Did Last Summer. In fact, IMDb is telling me that Jolly Roger was made for a mere 500 grand. For that amount of money, and considering how "hiss" poor this could have been if Sub Rosa would have backed it instead, this isn't a half bad film.
In fact, I popped it into my DVD player with the anxiety that it was going to one of those shot-on-a-99-dollar-DXG-video-camera messes where I can't hear any of the dialogue unless I crank up my stereo to 10 and put on a pair of headphones, but director Gary Jones and crew went to pains to ensure that this back-from-the-dead avenging Pirate slasher flick looks and plays relatively professional. That's not to say that you can't tell that this is a low budget indie: the acting can be rougher than the Pennsylvania leg of the Appalachian Trail; you'll swear that at least one actor had to be a producer or closely related to a producer; the music has a generic porno film quality; there are a number of weird jumps in the narrative where it seems like a reel of film or at least a couple script pages must have been lost but they just didn't think it was that important; it's often difficult to tell if the script was supposed to be written as more of a comedy--you'll certainly be laughing at some dialogue and events--like the ridiculous cop/coroner(?) and the fact that one protagonist figures that the best way to record a list of names off of carved stone with a paper and pencil is to do a rubbing.
But despite all of those blemishes, despite the fact that the plot is obviously cribbed a bit from The Fog and the villain was designed to cash in on the mega-success of Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean films, I found myself enjoying Jolly Roger more often than not, and it's not just because of the traditional slasher film move of showing plenty of breastages--although that certainly didn't hurt.
The title character is a nice, kinda campy idea for a new slasher villain. Jones and co-writer Jeff Miller wrote a simple but captivating and even occasionally suspenseful story where they do a decent job of weaving together a few different threads. Jones' timing is pretty good--the film has a nice flow aside from those few weird narrative jumps. Although some of the acting is rough, some is not bad at all. They found great locations. They made the smart move of putting a lot of the money they had into cameras, film, sound and effects.
I know some people said that the effects in the film looked cheap, and occasionally, they do look fake--for example, the Jolly Roger character clearly has a mask on with black makeup around his eye--but for this budget level, the effects are pretty incredible. There are decapitated heads galore, for example, which are modeled just as well as any 100 million dollar film. The actual scenes of violence--often leading up to those fake heads--are slightly rougher, but they're not at all bad. Rough technical problems are often cleverly shot around, and you'll never EVER see effects even a quarter as good in a Sub Rosa film unless they have a serious change of production philosophy and probably an influx of inheritance money from some long lost member of the Stanze clan. Even the Jolly Roger character, despite the obvious mask, isn't at all bad. The design of the character is great overall, and I actually prefer that Jones didn't just shoot his face in darkness all the time--a viewer should be able to use some imagination.
Don't pass this one up just because it's not perfect--just don't expect anything high gloss, and watch it with a sense of humor--there are occasional moments of enjoyable, sublime absurdity for those of you like me who enjoy that kind of thing. I'd love to see what Jones and his collaborators could do with a Jolly Roger sequel if they had at least 10 times the budget and maybe some input from Frank Henenlotter.
In fact, I popped it into my DVD player with the anxiety that it was going to one of those shot-on-a-99-dollar-DXG-video-camera messes where I can't hear any of the dialogue unless I crank up my stereo to 10 and put on a pair of headphones, but director Gary Jones and crew went to pains to ensure that this back-from-the-dead avenging Pirate slasher flick looks and plays relatively professional. That's not to say that you can't tell that this is a low budget indie: the acting can be rougher than the Pennsylvania leg of the Appalachian Trail; you'll swear that at least one actor had to be a producer or closely related to a producer; the music has a generic porno film quality; there are a number of weird jumps in the narrative where it seems like a reel of film or at least a couple script pages must have been lost but they just didn't think it was that important; it's often difficult to tell if the script was supposed to be written as more of a comedy--you'll certainly be laughing at some dialogue and events--like the ridiculous cop/coroner(?) and the fact that one protagonist figures that the best way to record a list of names off of carved stone with a paper and pencil is to do a rubbing.
But despite all of those blemishes, despite the fact that the plot is obviously cribbed a bit from The Fog and the villain was designed to cash in on the mega-success of Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean films, I found myself enjoying Jolly Roger more often than not, and it's not just because of the traditional slasher film move of showing plenty of breastages--although that certainly didn't hurt.
The title character is a nice, kinda campy idea for a new slasher villain. Jones and co-writer Jeff Miller wrote a simple but captivating and even occasionally suspenseful story where they do a decent job of weaving together a few different threads. Jones' timing is pretty good--the film has a nice flow aside from those few weird narrative jumps. Although some of the acting is rough, some is not bad at all. They found great locations. They made the smart move of putting a lot of the money they had into cameras, film, sound and effects.
I know some people said that the effects in the film looked cheap, and occasionally, they do look fake--for example, the Jolly Roger character clearly has a mask on with black makeup around his eye--but for this budget level, the effects are pretty incredible. There are decapitated heads galore, for example, which are modeled just as well as any 100 million dollar film. The actual scenes of violence--often leading up to those fake heads--are slightly rougher, but they're not at all bad. Rough technical problems are often cleverly shot around, and you'll never EVER see effects even a quarter as good in a Sub Rosa film unless they have a serious change of production philosophy and probably an influx of inheritance money from some long lost member of the Stanze clan. Even the Jolly Roger character, despite the obvious mask, isn't at all bad. The design of the character is great overall, and I actually prefer that Jones didn't just shoot his face in darkness all the time--a viewer should be able to use some imagination.
Don't pass this one up just because it's not perfect--just don't expect anything high gloss, and watch it with a sense of humor--there are occasional moments of enjoyable, sublime absurdity for those of you like me who enjoy that kind of thing. I'd love to see what Jones and his collaborators could do with a Jolly Roger sequel if they had at least 10 times the budget and maybe some input from Frank Henenlotter.
The people who made this hate us AND the horror genre
todbrowning200024 October 2007
I'll just cut to the chase. Instead of renting/buying this movie, take a few bucks out of your wallet, throw the money in the toilet and take a big ole dump on top of it. Flush.
There. Same difference.
Of course, THE ASYLUM has produced little watchable product so it comes as no big surprise, but this one is worse than usual. It looks like it was filmed as quickly as possible with absolutely no regard for logic, style or even entertainment. There's some gratuitous female nudity thrown in no doubt designed to try and draw your attention away from the fact that this is nothing but a steaming pile of cinematic poo. I'll be hardpressed to try anything else from these people. Avoid at all costs.
There. Same difference.
Of course, THE ASYLUM has produced little watchable product so it comes as no big surprise, but this one is worse than usual. It looks like it was filmed as quickly as possible with absolutely no regard for logic, style or even entertainment. There's some gratuitous female nudity thrown in no doubt designed to try and draw your attention away from the fact that this is nothing but a steaming pile of cinematic poo. I'll be hardpressed to try anything else from these people. Avoid at all costs.
this movie sucks like a lollipop
spence71114 September 2005
Warning: Spoilers
it really does in the beginning 6 kids are camping on a beach and a skull pops up and two kids open a treasure chest (dumbasses) i mean treasure chests don't get on shores by themselves so that must mean its cursed and so the skull turns into a demonic pirate he kills 4 of the kids the other two are thought to of killed them so they escape to find the killer and then we find out that jolly roger's shipmates killed him and took his treasure so he must cut off the heads of their grandkids to get his treasure back (what what) you mean to tell me that treasure can appear just by cutting off the heads of the people who stole it treasure dosen't appear just like that i'd like to play superman 64 then watch this oh and the ending sux badly if you want better pirate movies just wait for pirates of the Caribbean 2 a 2 out of 10 and i hope it burns in hell
Another moronic teen slasher.
poolandrews5 July 2006
Warning: Spoilers
Jolly Roger: Massacre at Cutter's Cove starts late one night in the small American coastal town of Cutter's Cove where six teenage friends are on the beach enjoying each other's company. Lovers Alex (Tom Nagel) & Jessie (Kristina Korn) begin to argue while another couple head off into the night for a bit of nookie when the guy spots an old chest half buried in the sand, he opens it & finds a skull which he throws into the sea. From the watery depths the skull begins to develop flesh & a body, eventually a nasty pirate known as Jolly Roger (Rhett Giles) is fully re-animated & returns from the dead. Roger starts by killing Alex & Jessies friends for which they inconveniently get the blame, can they convince the police that a zombie pirate was responsible? Can Roger be stopped in his quest to avenge his own death by killing the ancestors of the founders of Cutter's Cove who killed him? Watch it to find out...
Co-written & directed by Gary Jones I thought Jolly Roger: Massacre at Cutter's Cove was pretty poor throughout, even by straight-to-video teen slasher films standards which aren't that high in the first place. The script by Jones & Jeff Miller moves along at a fair pace, doesn't seem to take itself too seriously & features a fair few admirable traits like some good gore & the first ever cinematic scene featuring a zombie pirate visiting a strip club for no apparent reason other than to be gratuitous & get a few naked females on screen, hey it worked for me! On the negative side (how long have you got?) it's dumb, stupid, poorly written, predictable nonsense. I would imagine that the filmmakers decided that Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) did good box office & with a sequel due out soon thought they would take the whole pirate theme & make a Scream (1996), Friday the 13th (1980) rip-off with a wise cracking zombie killer. Hey presto instant hit!
Director Jones was obviously working with a low budget so I'll cut him some slack, Jolly Roger: Massacre at Cutter's Cove still looks terrible though with no visual style at all. It's not scary, it's more cheesy fun, you know it's the sort of film you can't take your eyes off because it's entertaining for the wrong reasons. To it's credit there's some decent gore, a woman is split in half, there's some decapitations, severed heads, severed arms, severed hands, kebab skewers in eyes, impalings & some really cool slashed throats & thankfully the filmmakers weren't afraid to use plenty of fake blood.
With a supposed budget of about $500,000 it's not much of a surprise that the special effects aren't up to much, this ain't no Pirates of the Caribbean in any way, shape or form! The acting was average at best even for this type of film.
Jolly Roger: Massacre at Cutter's Cove is an OK watch as long as you go into it knowing that it's crap. If your looking for a good film then forget it because Jolly Roger: Massacre at Cutter's Cove ain't it, but if your just looking for something to laugh at that has the usual language, bad jokes, blood & severed limbs & a fair amount of nudity then you could do worse. I've seen better, much better but at the same time I've seen worse, although not by much.
Co-written & directed by Gary Jones I thought Jolly Roger: Massacre at Cutter's Cove was pretty poor throughout, even by straight-to-video teen slasher films standards which aren't that high in the first place. The script by Jones & Jeff Miller moves along at a fair pace, doesn't seem to take itself too seriously & features a fair few admirable traits like some good gore & the first ever cinematic scene featuring a zombie pirate visiting a strip club for no apparent reason other than to be gratuitous & get a few naked females on screen, hey it worked for me! On the negative side (how long have you got?) it's dumb, stupid, poorly written, predictable nonsense. I would imagine that the filmmakers decided that Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) did good box office & with a sequel due out soon thought they would take the whole pirate theme & make a Scream (1996), Friday the 13th (1980) rip-off with a wise cracking zombie killer. Hey presto instant hit!
Director Jones was obviously working with a low budget so I'll cut him some slack, Jolly Roger: Massacre at Cutter's Cove still looks terrible though with no visual style at all. It's not scary, it's more cheesy fun, you know it's the sort of film you can't take your eyes off because it's entertaining for the wrong reasons. To it's credit there's some decent gore, a woman is split in half, there's some decapitations, severed heads, severed arms, severed hands, kebab skewers in eyes, impalings & some really cool slashed throats & thankfully the filmmakers weren't afraid to use plenty of fake blood.
With a supposed budget of about $500,000 it's not much of a surprise that the special effects aren't up to much, this ain't no Pirates of the Caribbean in any way, shape or form! The acting was average at best even for this type of film.
Jolly Roger: Massacre at Cutter's Cove is an OK watch as long as you go into it knowing that it's crap. If your looking for a good film then forget it because Jolly Roger: Massacre at Cutter's Cove ain't it, but if your just looking for something to laugh at that has the usual language, bad jokes, blood & severed limbs & a fair amount of nudity then you could do worse. I've seen better, much better but at the same time I've seen worse, although not by much.
Jolly Roger? Don't you mean Holy Crap it's Bad Roger!
blackhawk999995 December 2006
Warning: Spoilers
I thought this movie sucked. I watched this movie on the Sci-Fi Channel and, It was terrible! Firstly, the acting was poor and secondly the story quality was just bad. Come on this seemed worse then Plan 9 from Outer Space (and that was bad). Also Jolly Roger? A Pirate it should have been Tuff Steve or Rigid John! Concluding a non-spoiling review, I would have to say that some of the deaths were rather pointless (he slashed random people at random places.) Rhett Giles did a decent job as Jolly Roger. However, going back to writing Jolly Rogers motives were bad (collecting heads?) then the twist at the end was just awful. It could have been Sci-Fi but this movie was hopeless from the start. Avoid it! If you can! I know I wish I did
Asylum Filmmakers need to be institutionalized
BloodTheTelepathicDog6 October 2007
I have viewed a handful of films produced by the low budget "masters" at Asylum Entertainment and have yet to watch anything that could vaguely be described as entertaining. That being said, I rented Jolly Roger against my better judgment and was not surprised by the poor quality of this aimless, clichéd movie.
In Jolly Roger we have a pirate who is resurrected through the blood of a teenager (he cuts his hand on a treasure chest that is just laying about on a beach, for several hundred years mind you) and his blood brings back to life the title villain so he can go about killing descendants of the pirates who wronged him many ages ago. Of course, all of the descendants still remain in dead-end seaside community Cutter's Cove as our current transient lifestyles are abandoned in this sorry excuse for cinema. So the pirate runs around Cutter's Cove and cuts the heads off of people, all in undramatic and sometimes insipid fashion. Trust me, there is a difference between camp and crap and this pirate... horror/comedy?... falls into the latter.
GORE: $$$$ (Goregounds won't be letdown as there are more flying heads and blood splattered walls in this film than any other film I have viewed in recent memory. However, if you are a fan of unique ways to kill characters in films, then this will not appeal to you).
NUDITY: $$$$ (Much like the gore, the skin is plentiful in this film as well. Jolly Roger attends a strip club seemingly for the sole purpose of utterly the films most famous line, a clichéd piece of dialogue that is uttered by the buxom Bernadette Perez "Is that a musket in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?" Jolly Roger also kills a topless girl near the beginning while she is making love to her boyfriend).
STORY: $ (We've all seen the same premise in The Fog, and John Carpenter's film is head and shoulders above this garbage. The entire script is sophomoric with the worst dialogue this side of an Andy Sidaris film. Everything in this film has been done before... and done much better. Is it impossible for low budget horror filmmakers to conceive of another way to bring back a dead character? The tired accidental spilling of blood has wore out its welcome).
ACTING: $$ (Rhett Giles as Jolly Roger does the best job here as everyone else in the cast seems lost. Tom Downey wasn't too bad as the sheriff but his dialogue was atrocious and you could tell he wasn't happy with uttering his lines. The two young leads were rather weak but to their credit, their characters were carbon copied horror teens. Bernadette Perez, as the wise-acre stripper, gave a bit more depth to her role than you normally see from your typical actress/stripper).
In Jolly Roger we have a pirate who is resurrected through the blood of a teenager (he cuts his hand on a treasure chest that is just laying about on a beach, for several hundred years mind you) and his blood brings back to life the title villain so he can go about killing descendants of the pirates who wronged him many ages ago. Of course, all of the descendants still remain in dead-end seaside community Cutter's Cove as our current transient lifestyles are abandoned in this sorry excuse for cinema. So the pirate runs around Cutter's Cove and cuts the heads off of people, all in undramatic and sometimes insipid fashion. Trust me, there is a difference between camp and crap and this pirate... horror/comedy?... falls into the latter.
GORE: $$$$ (Goregounds won't be letdown as there are more flying heads and blood splattered walls in this film than any other film I have viewed in recent memory. However, if you are a fan of unique ways to kill characters in films, then this will not appeal to you).
NUDITY: $$$$ (Much like the gore, the skin is plentiful in this film as well. Jolly Roger attends a strip club seemingly for the sole purpose of utterly the films most famous line, a clichéd piece of dialogue that is uttered by the buxom Bernadette Perez "Is that a musket in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?" Jolly Roger also kills a topless girl near the beginning while she is making love to her boyfriend).
STORY: $ (We've all seen the same premise in The Fog, and John Carpenter's film is head and shoulders above this garbage. The entire script is sophomoric with the worst dialogue this side of an Andy Sidaris film. Everything in this film has been done before... and done much better. Is it impossible for low budget horror filmmakers to conceive of another way to bring back a dead character? The tired accidental spilling of blood has wore out its welcome).
ACTING: $$ (Rhett Giles as Jolly Roger does the best job here as everyone else in the cast seems lost. Tom Downey wasn't too bad as the sheriff but his dialogue was atrocious and you could tell he wasn't happy with uttering his lines. The two young leads were rather weak but to their credit, their characters were carbon copied horror teens. Bernadette Perez, as the wise-acre stripper, gave a bit more depth to her role than you normally see from your typical actress/stripper).
Yo Ho, A New Classic B Horror Movie Is Born
danthewrestlingmanorigin28 December 2006
Please do not view a film with a storyline like this, and give some pretentious review on it. It's a killer pirate horror/ comedy, and judged as a killer pirate horror/comedy it's an excellent film. Rhett Giles is hilarious as Jolly Roger, and is very different from his other serious toned Asylum roles like Frankenstein Reborn. The death scenes here are well staged, and Jolly Roger doesn't mess around, racking up a very large body count, mostly by decapitation. You also have plenty of sexy skin scenes, including the drop dead hilarious strip club scene. " Is That A Musket In Your Pocket, or Are You Just Happy To See Me?" is the type of gut busting dialog you can expect. The basic story is actually pretty good here, and with the success of historical period horror films like the excellent Straight Into Darkness, somebody should try to make a serious pirate horror film. If you enjoy tongue in cheek horror like Jack Frost, Santa's Slay, or The Leprechaun series, I can pretty much guarantee you'll enjoy this. Asylum should definitely do a sequel, as this is one of there better efforts.
So bad, it's good.
hypnose3 April 2006
What happens when you combine the Lower-echelon (of) Actors Guild with what appears to be the masterful effects of a high school editing suite? You get this oh-so-very-bad film.
From the outset, you know it's bad and the producers don't seem to want to hide from this.
The heads bouncing around like basketballs were fab and the camera techniques were non-existent. One in particular took the cake, in which a CCTV camera captured the murders in a strip joint. Watching the replay of the murders, you'd expect the security camera's angle to be used. No way! The sequence is just a repeat of the murders (from all different camera angles), only in black-and-white.
Don't get me started on the fact our skeleton pirate's white skin can be seen in the final sequence.
Thar! This Blows!
From the outset, you know it's bad and the producers don't seem to want to hide from this.
The heads bouncing around like basketballs were fab and the camera techniques were non-existent. One in particular took the cake, in which a CCTV camera captured the murders in a strip joint. Watching the replay of the murders, you'd expect the security camera's angle to be used. No way! The sequence is just a repeat of the murders (from all different camera angles), only in black-and-white.
Don't get me started on the fact our skeleton pirate's white skin can be seen in the final sequence.
Thar! This Blows!
Who needs John Basedow when you got Jolly Roger: Massacre at Cutter's Cove?
japanman89136 July 2007
I stayed up late one night watching this peutrid, abysmal piece of rotting, maggot filled, roadkill, movie. The acting for short, was abysmal, the plot...non existent...the character development...pssh...the editing looked like it was dragged through a cow's @$$...for short...to spare your eyes, this movie was one of the worst I have seen, but not the worst, I have that spot reserved for Talledega Nights. Although I have to say, this is a great weight loss plan, or abb workout, if you will. I laughed non stop at the sheer stupidity of every line and every movement of every character, and by the end of the flick, I had six pack abbs, a fine plan. Jolly Roger: Massacre at Cutter's Cove 1/10, and I'm being generous. But if you think spending several hundred- several thousand dollars on an abb workout machine, just stop and think...Jolly Roger: Massacre at Cutter's Cove is just a video store away...if the store employees have not already discarded it, due to the fact that it has contaminated every other flick on the shelf. and rotted through the shelf itself.
Heads will roll
Dr. Gore10 June 2005
Warning: Spoilers
*SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT*
A bunch of teens bring a pirate back to life. He's the Jolly Roger. The one thing that makes him very jolly is cutting off people's heads. He stalks his way through the town and kills any scurvy dog that was related to his mutinous crew. Heads fly off in all directions. Only the two star crossed lovers care enough to do some research on Jolly Roger to try to figure out a way to end his head chopping ways.
I was pleased with "Jolly Roger". It may be the best undead pirate flick I've ever seen. They were not shy with the blood and guts. Heads rolled here. Heads rolled there. Sometimes, heads just popped straight up. Lots of heads in a dead man's chest. Jolly Roger even had time to check out a strip club. He was there to do some head chopping and some breast watching. Of course, Jolly Roger couldn't leave without getting a lap dance. A lap dance for the zombie pirate. That was a great B-movie moment. I applauded. It made me jolly too.
A bunch of teens bring a pirate back to life. He's the Jolly Roger. The one thing that makes him very jolly is cutting off people's heads. He stalks his way through the town and kills any scurvy dog that was related to his mutinous crew. Heads fly off in all directions. Only the two star crossed lovers care enough to do some research on Jolly Roger to try to figure out a way to end his head chopping ways.
I was pleased with "Jolly Roger". It may be the best undead pirate flick I've ever seen. They were not shy with the blood and guts. Heads rolled here. Heads rolled there. Sometimes, heads just popped straight up. Lots of heads in a dead man's chest. Jolly Roger even had time to check out a strip club. He was there to do some head chopping and some breast watching. Of course, Jolly Roger couldn't leave without getting a lap dance. A lap dance for the zombie pirate. That was a great B-movie moment. I applauded. It made me jolly too.
Not that much that is jolly here
TheLittleSongbird4 November 2012
Jolly Roger: Massacre at Cutter's Cove isn't without its redeeming qualities. The strip scenes are amusing, Kristina Korn is easy on the eyes and likable and, although his character is made too much of a wimp at times, the talented Rhett Giles does give a decent performance. Unfortunately, that's the only praise I can give. It is a cheap-looking film, though I've seen cheaper, with dull lighting, very annoyingly slipshod photography and special effects that are so fake and lacking in any finesse or technical value. The music is obvious, unfitting and has nothing memorable. Jolly Roger: Massacre at Cutter's Cove also has some of the most sophomoric dialogue I've heard in recent memory, the story holds no surprises, as we have seen it all before and executed far better, has no atmosphere or nail-biting suspense and is eye-rollingly ridiculous at times too. Some of the scenes are clearly repetitive of others in the film, but clumsily disguised to not make it look so. There are no likable characters, again I don't mind stereotypes and clichés as long as they are written well and interestingly, which Jolly Roger: Massacre at Cutter's Cove failed to do. Jolly Roger is the one character you sort of root for, though Korn does decently with really bad material, the others are obnoxious in the worst sense. There are many killings, but they offer no genuine sense of horror, they're bloody but crude-looking and unoriginal and they are often very randomly placed. The acting is generally awful, Tom Nagel is bland while everybody else, especially in the scene where the Mayor talks to the kids about LeChuck, overacts to the point of utter embarrassment. Korn and Giles are the only two exceptions. All in all, not terrible or the worst movie ever, but it is a good idea to skip this one. 3/10 Bethany Cox
Jolly Roger: Massacre to my Eyes!!!
jorgito20017 January 2009
I'm a huge horror fan & can be pretty forgiving at times when the film has next to no budget, but tries its best to work with what its got. Some have managed to pull it off quite well (Ex. Hide & Creep (2004)). This movie is simply HORRIBLE...just HORRIBLE. The acting is non existent, the pacing has been stretched out to extremely BORING levels to flesh out what needed to be a full-length "film" (if you can call it that) & Jolly Roger's makeup is just laughable. Maybe the only redeeming quality are the hot STRIPPERS...but even a nice rack couldn't save this turkey! I regrettably watched this on a trip to Miami & wanted to gouge my own eyes out from how BAD it was! Complete Garbage! I implore you to stay FAR AWAY!
Atrociously Awesome
rglasgow15 August 2008
Warning: Spoilers
I struggled with how to rate this film. I really did. See I love kitchy horror films - which is what this was. This film had no pretensions of being classy or intellectual; it set out to be just a block of solid entertainment, and it succeeded.
That said, it was a truly awful film. So ultimately I decided I'd rate it as a 3 star film and proceed from there.
The start seems to start us off as a slasher film starring six teens; until four of them are offed in the first ten minutes. Next followed the single worst part of the movie; sitting around the police station with unbelievable actions on the part of the police and truly terrible acting on the part of everyone.
But it all gets better quickly as we cut back to our favourite pirate (and my favourite character) Jolly Roger as he proceeds to decapitate all those that get in the way of his lucky chaaaaaaaarrrrrms, which happen to be heads.
And that's basically the film. An undead psycho pirate hunting down people and cutting their heads off. Of course, the number one scene in the film is where Roger rips a bouncer's arm off and proceeds to beat him to death with it. Honestly, how can you get better then that? Well, you can if you bother to sit through the credits. I let them roll for a while and the end warnings are truly amazing, "The events, characters... purely fictitious. Really. Any similarity to actual... is purely coincidental, and very weird. We suggest moving, and/or staying away from hooks, planks, and cats o' nine tails or more." Honestly, that's what it says. It also makes sure we know that, "No animals, strippers, or pirates were hurt during the production of this screenplay." And that's why this film is amazing. It's a bad film that KNOWS it's a bad film and will make fun of it. It was easy to watch, fun to mock, and if you don't find yourself wanting to make a pirate joke or talk in a pirate voice every few minutes you have no soul.
That said, it was a truly awful film. So ultimately I decided I'd rate it as a 3 star film and proceed from there.
The start seems to start us off as a slasher film starring six teens; until four of them are offed in the first ten minutes. Next followed the single worst part of the movie; sitting around the police station with unbelievable actions on the part of the police and truly terrible acting on the part of everyone.
But it all gets better quickly as we cut back to our favourite pirate (and my favourite character) Jolly Roger as he proceeds to decapitate all those that get in the way of his lucky chaaaaaaaarrrrrms, which happen to be heads.
And that's basically the film. An undead psycho pirate hunting down people and cutting their heads off. Of course, the number one scene in the film is where Roger rips a bouncer's arm off and proceeds to beat him to death with it. Honestly, how can you get better then that? Well, you can if you bother to sit through the credits. I let them roll for a while and the end warnings are truly amazing, "The events, characters... purely fictitious. Really. Any similarity to actual... is purely coincidental, and very weird. We suggest moving, and/or staying away from hooks, planks, and cats o' nine tails or more." Honestly, that's what it says. It also makes sure we know that, "No animals, strippers, or pirates were hurt during the production of this screenplay." And that's why this film is amazing. It's a bad film that KNOWS it's a bad film and will make fun of it. It was easy to watch, fun to mock, and if you don't find yourself wanting to make a pirate joke or talk in a pirate voice every few minutes you have no soul.
Unexpectidly Good!!!
redhead989823 November 2007
Warning: Spoilers
Jolly Roger has a body count of 17, which is a pretty high amount of deaths for a 80 minute horror movie. It has a few good actors, and a few bad ones. Some of it makes you laugh. Like, for example, the mayor gets her arm cut of and starts running at Roger with no weapon! Another, is he rips a man's arm of and beats him to death with it! He also has bullets and fire in his arm! It is a bloody film! I have wanted to see this for a year. We went to Holly wood video, and my heart nearly stopped when i saw the title! I love this film! I think i might buy it off of Amazon. com! Pretty decent film for a low budget horror film! I would recommend it to every buddy that likes horror films! Enjoy this masterpiece by Gary! (Gary is the director of the film) this on my wish list along with Shark Attack 2 (DVD) Jack frost 2 (DVD) and Blood Surf (VHS)!!!!!
Jolly Roger was a hoot! Enjoyable, good acting, fun
punkin_flats13 August 2005
My husband rented this DVD and said usually Asylum put out pretty good, low-budge campy movies. I said, "ok, let's watch it." You know, it was pretty good! It was no big epic, movie classic or anything, but for a "B" grade movie I enjoyed it. The casting seemed good, the young actors seemed to fit their parts well. The acting by everyone seemed good (again) and believable. The plot was something different, I would have called the Jolly Roger a serial killer but strangely nobody used that term. He really cut a swath through the town. There was plenty of murder/attacks/scary scenes etc. pretty much evenly distributed through the movie to keep your attention. It had a good flow to it. Like the other reviewer, I agree that the bar scene was a hoot, just trashy enough to be believable and humorous also. I had to laugh out loud at many of the bar scenes. You probably will too. I liked the town where the movie was set, it was kind of gloomy and rainy and dreary for some good pirate atmosphere. All in all it was enjoyable and I actually wouldn't mind watching it at a future date.
Good effects, amusing story
UK_Zombie10 October 2019
Fun but flawed goofy slasher film
kannibalcorpsegrinder2 October 2021
Having a party on a deserted beach, a group of friends finds an old pirate chest buried in the sand and unwittingly release the demonic pirate Jolly Roger who continues on a rash of murders in the town forcing the only survivors of the rampage to find him as he carries out his revenge.
This one shouldn't be as much fun as it was. The main likable feature here is that the film has a charm that all movies of this caliber have, and it's supplied in spades. The greatest aspect is the cheesy way that the action comes out as it's not at all serious, and the resulting tone makes it all the more fun to watch. A lighthearted tone is essential in making a film with as goofy a premise as it does enjoyable featuring a pirate returning from the dead to wreak havoc in a town and a young couple wrongly fingered as the suspects forced to go on the run to stop him. It's something that doesn't need a serious spin on it to be fun and that it doesn't go that route in favor o the goofy spin it has instead worked to the films' benefit. Having a zombie pirate slashing people is a nice premise, and this one is goofy enough to pull it off. The deaths here are quite plentiful, and the body count is quite large even if just about all the deaths are by decapitation which makes it all the gorier. The other deaths in here are just as nice, as the opening massacre of the friends featuring a body split in half, thrashing with a pointed reed, and having a wooden stick poking out of the eye with the marshmallow still on it is quite nice to see, and the highlight scene in a strip-club featuring the pirate getting a lap-dance from a stripper before he attacks a bouncer and then a second stripper dancing on the stage which is a great, goofy sight. Combined with the effective look of the killer, these give the film a highly enjoyable killer. While the general air and atmosphere from the kills might be goofy and silly, the main plotline here has a lot to like. The idea of the film taking on a search for the killer's identity and purpose behind the killings while the rampage is ongoing gives this a fast-paced setup, as the film doesn't stick around long enough to become tedious. It quickly gets in and gets out not just with establishing the police searching for the killer while they conduct their own investigation into everything. That it reminds quite heavily of another major genre film with the whole idea of coming back to claim the lives of the descendants of the town's founding forefathers who screwed over the villain is quite enjoyable. These features hold it up over the few flaws as there isn't much to dislike here. The main problem with the film is that there's too much CGI in the movie. Every single kill is done that way where it's so obvious that it is that it does become distracting at a point. It looks better and more realistic to just get rid of computers for FX and go back to practical work, and it makes the workers responsible seem more personal, rather than just the dull, emotionless CGI that's cropping up in these movies. It's always something that's worth complaining about, so maybe it can get some clues about no longer using that technique. The film does have a couple of other questions that don't get answered or just a little off of what would really happen in a real-life situation which does seem a little off, but overall, there's not much else to dislike here.
Rated R: Graphic Violence, Nudity, and Graphic Language.
This one shouldn't be as much fun as it was. The main likable feature here is that the film has a charm that all movies of this caliber have, and it's supplied in spades. The greatest aspect is the cheesy way that the action comes out as it's not at all serious, and the resulting tone makes it all the more fun to watch. A lighthearted tone is essential in making a film with as goofy a premise as it does enjoyable featuring a pirate returning from the dead to wreak havoc in a town and a young couple wrongly fingered as the suspects forced to go on the run to stop him. It's something that doesn't need a serious spin on it to be fun and that it doesn't go that route in favor o the goofy spin it has instead worked to the films' benefit. Having a zombie pirate slashing people is a nice premise, and this one is goofy enough to pull it off. The deaths here are quite plentiful, and the body count is quite large even if just about all the deaths are by decapitation which makes it all the gorier. The other deaths in here are just as nice, as the opening massacre of the friends featuring a body split in half, thrashing with a pointed reed, and having a wooden stick poking out of the eye with the marshmallow still on it is quite nice to see, and the highlight scene in a strip-club featuring the pirate getting a lap-dance from a stripper before he attacks a bouncer and then a second stripper dancing on the stage which is a great, goofy sight. Combined with the effective look of the killer, these give the film a highly enjoyable killer. While the general air and atmosphere from the kills might be goofy and silly, the main plotline here has a lot to like. The idea of the film taking on a search for the killer's identity and purpose behind the killings while the rampage is ongoing gives this a fast-paced setup, as the film doesn't stick around long enough to become tedious. It quickly gets in and gets out not just with establishing the police searching for the killer while they conduct their own investigation into everything. That it reminds quite heavily of another major genre film with the whole idea of coming back to claim the lives of the descendants of the town's founding forefathers who screwed over the villain is quite enjoyable. These features hold it up over the few flaws as there isn't much to dislike here. The main problem with the film is that there's too much CGI in the movie. Every single kill is done that way where it's so obvious that it is that it does become distracting at a point. It looks better and more realistic to just get rid of computers for FX and go back to practical work, and it makes the workers responsible seem more personal, rather than just the dull, emotionless CGI that's cropping up in these movies. It's always something that's worth complaining about, so maybe it can get some clues about no longer using that technique. The film does have a couple of other questions that don't get answered or just a little off of what would really happen in a real-life situation which does seem a little off, but overall, there's not much else to dislike here.
Rated R: Graphic Violence, Nudity, and Graphic Language.
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