Death Academy (2005 Video) User Reviews

embarrassing

[SchmollywoodBabylon · 1/10 · 21 September 2005]

I finally saw this new try to make a Swedish slasher and I was extremely disappointed. The story was confusing and the actors was so wooden that even me seems like a "Laurence Olivier" in comparison. The worst thing was, of course, that the murder scenes was so amateurish filmed that there wasn't any sense of danger, violence or pain. There was just someone that pointed the camera against the make up-effect and thought that it looked cool. The editing was beyond bad and the unintentional comedy wasn't even funny.

And pink blood? Strange! It's a hard thing to produce an indie-movie without money, but some people just shouldn't come near a camera. I think their next movie, The Griefing, will be better. I hope so anyway.

Best movie of all time 10/10

[simonlindback · 5/10 · 22 July 2017]

Consistent story, amazing actors, and excellent production quality. Over all I must say that this is the greatest movie of all time. I would definitely recommend it. By now I'm just trying to get 5 lines of text to be able to publish this review. I like dogs and I wanna swing from the chandelier, from the chandelier.

Good for a laugh...

[gekarlin · 2 January 2007]

I happen to be from the same town as the director and this was shot in my school (featuring several of my teachers and friends) but don't think that i will spare it just because of that. This is a nefariously bad movie. The acting is so stiff that it seems like the actors realized what they were doing halfway through and wanted out but they couldn't. Of course i realize that this isn't bona fide actors but still. I wouldn't knock this totally though. The effects are great (particullary the bit with the fire extinguisher) and the quality is crisp but in the end i just couldn't picture this as anything more than a goof.

By the way the actor that played the janitor (Jan Lundmark) died last year and was a good friend of mine. Rest in peace Jan!

The worst horror movie I've ever seen!!!

[vd-7 · 1/10 · 17 July 2005]

This movie has nothing to offer.I bought it from a web shop in Sweden. I regret it so bad, I've thrown it out with the garbage because that's where it belongs. Don't watch it if you like slasher movies!!! This flick has nothing to offer. At all. You will be regretful. No extras, no menu, only movie-DVD and the movie does not approve to be a good movie at all. Bad acting and bad script. Horrible! I do not know why this movie was done, but if they want to do movies, they need to work a lot better next time. I like their homepage, but skip releasing this crap. I would if I could, give it 0 out of 10 but that is not possible. I don't recommend it! BAD! 1 out of 10.

Bad acting, strange music choices, uneven directing and a lot of fun.

[MidoriFiore · 5/10 · 29 April 2011]

The acting is terrible, it's laughable. The music seems very unfitting at several places, and is cut weirdly. The movie has been color corrected in a way that makes the color seem strange in the scenes in the dark school hallways. Sometime the editing and sound effects are awesome. At other times they are just bad.

But this film is a lot of fun. Several of the characters are so over-the-top that they come out as hilarious. I love the "final girl's" boyfriend. He's a bad-ass. And the fat Shaggy-esque guy is a riot. There are some really cool deaths, like the buzz-saw murder or the with the fire extinguisher-kill. They are great.

And the ending was actually unexpected. Good job there.

Despite all the flaws it's worth a watch. And you know what? I had much better time watching this low budget slasher than Mikael Håfström's big budget Strandvaskaren/Drowning Ghost. This is way better.

A fantastically awful tour de crap

[bassewt · 10/10 · 11 September 2012]

This film is not quite as bad as, say, Tommy Wiseau's "The Room", or "Birdemic: Shock and Terror". It is, however, the closest you can get to that level of awful awesomeness in Swedish films.

"Death Academy" is filled to the brim with awful, stiff acting that isn't believable for a second, gigantic holes in the logic of the story, and plot holes that make you wonder if there even is a plot! And yet, there always seems to be a gleam in the eye, as if the director knows how awful his film is and is trying to have as fun with it as possible.

The gore ranges from mediocre to pretty good, and it's evident that all the money went into props and effects. The sound quality is so-so, even for a low-budget movie, and the music is so out of place that it's laughable - in a good way!

The camera angles are often very strange, and the cameraman often makes dramatic zoom-ins on people's faces when they're in the middle of a sentence! Also, when filming any of the girls, he often focuses on the wrong parts...

If you enjoy humorously bad films, this is a must see. I watched it with some friends and had a blast. It's a 100 minutes of uninterrupted laughter and enjoyment!

I had a good time watching this with a few friends.

[tofuhead · 6/10 · 21 July 2010]

Surely this is no masterpiece. If you'll enjoy this movie really depends on whether you're trying to take it serious or not. I believe I wouldn't have enjoyed it if I watched it alone but it was tons of fun watching it with friends and pointing out plot-holes, people's tendency to drop their weapons or the director's inclination to stick the camera onto different weapons.

While this does not speak for the actual "quality" of the film, I can say it is definitely possible to enjoy this movie. Although to be honest it tends to drag at points and becomes a bit repetitive (they see one of the murderers, knock him unconscious, run away and hide, one person gets killed - repeat) but i guess the characters are meant to act stupid since otherwise the movie would be over after 10 minutes (that's actually the case for most slasher movies). I do not believe this was meant to be such a serious movie and thus it should probably not be judged as such: It's a gory and silly flick. Still, even in that category there's better movies. As I said, it can get boring at times, there's a few unnecessary twists (especially the last scene) and some bad editing.

Note: I watched the badly dubbed German version so i can't really say much about the acting.