Beaten to Death (2022)

• Year: 2022
• Released: 01 Dec 2022
• Country: Australia
• Adwords: 2 wins & 1 nomination
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13852690/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/beaten_to_death
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• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: N/A
• Genre: Horror
• Runtime: 93 min
• Writer: Sam Curtain, Benjamin Jung-Clarke
• Director: Sam Curtain
• Cast: Thomas Roach, David Tracy, Nicole Tudor
• Keywords: drug dealer, australia, grunge, psychopath, survival, killer,

	4.8/10
	73% – Critics

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I love horror. I love practical fx. I did not like this movie.

From its weak premise, to the unnecessary non-linear way the movie unfolds, to just how ugly this movie is in general. I don’t mean the violence. I was well prepared for the violence, and movies like Terrifier 2 were more brutal than this. I mean how every set that wasn’t out in the desert made you want to take a shower after looking at it.

I live in the southern US and I know what it’s like to be stereotyped in a movie. We’re depicted as ignorant bumpkins who never seem to have indoor air conditioning, and do nothing but hunting, fishing, fighting, and drinking beer. This movie adds to the ongoing Australian trope that anyone out there can and will kill you, and they all seem to be related. This movie had the nerve to steal the ending from Eden Lake, not once, but twice in the same movie! (SPOILER FOR EDEN LAKE. IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN IT, GO WATCH THAT INSTEAD) It was silly and predictable the FIRST time the main character inadvertently brought a relative of the man he killed to that isolated house. The second and final time was absolutely stupid. The main character, after walking through the desert for a couple of days with no eyes, finally stumbles upon a road, and eventually a man in a truck. What does the man do when he sees someone covered in blood, begging for help? Well, he goes back to that same gd house, of course. Because that man is the father of the dead guy from the beginning, and the other dead guy the eyeless man was somehow able to find from miles away, despite having zero eyes.

This movie is ridiculous, and just expects its audience to buy into the most unbelievable stuff, over and over. At one point, main character is nailed by his hands to the wall by the older brother. He eventually falls, which further rips his hands open. Ten minutes later, he’s digging his own grave with absolutely no difficulty. I can’t use a shovel if my hands are mildly blistered. But this guy’s out there digging a hole deeper than his height, after having been crucified like jesus for hours, up until a few minutes before the scene.

The girlfriend. What a pointless character. They could have cut her completely out, and nothing would have changed. Oh wait. She was only there to give the main character a reason to have the brother drive him to the house where it all happened, rather than drive him to the hospital. You see her singing in a bar, looking at him as if they are in a Hallmark movie. No dialogue. When you see her again, they’re sleeping together, and talking about making a drug deal. What? We don’t even know this girlfriend. We’re never given a chance. She goes from having to wear a bag over her head along with the main character, so the guy can pick up the drugs with them, to being knocked down, and dying from a brain injury. This is the catalyst that drives the entire plot, and it’s just some random girl he met in a bar.

Final complaint: The grunting, crying, moaning, and attempts to end his own life by the main character had to have taken up at least 15 minutes of this movie’s run time. They made an hour and a half long movie feel as if it were three hours long.

The worst movie I’ve seen in 2023 and it’s no contest.

I mean, what were they actually thinking with this film? People financed this, paid money to produce it, and not a single one saw the finished product and said, “This isn’t good, at all?”. I refuse to believe that there are people who will waste their money making these types of movies that just aren’t good by any metric you throw at it, and it really goes to show just how many of these writers/directors are surrounded by Yes Men that just support anything these people spew out.

The movie starts out with violence (the only thing the movie does well), but there is so little of it, it’s almost like an afterthought. Most of the movie is spent with a. Someone talking for extended periods of time, b. Someone walking for extended periods of time. I’m not even exaggerating when I say that there are 10-15 minute intervals where all the main character does is walk. They change the settings and backgrounds, but who the hell wants to see a movie where people walk? There’s also long pauses, long empty spaces where nothing happens, then a few more minutes of violence, and even more talking or walking. It was simply the worst thing I’ve seen in a long time, and I’m actually angry that I took the time to sit and watch it, especially considering I’ve seen much better films just this week alone.

Although the acting was passable and the cinematography was actually well done (the only reason I even gave the movie more than 1 star), the rest of this movie was exhausting in its mundanity. The only part I truly enjoyed is finding out why all this was happening to him to begin with, but by then you’ve already lost all sympathy for everyone involved.

Don’t watch this film. None of the characters are likable, there’s no one to root for, everyone sucks, and it’s just a slog to get through. Add to that some awful singing early on that lasts way too long, and you have one of the most truly awful films I’ve seen in the last 10 years.

It’s truly a shame. The SFX was decent enough that, had it been utilized in a good production, could have put that team on the map. What a waste of fake blood and prosthetics if I ever saw one.

Two HUGE thumbs down. Please, for the love of God, avoid everything about this picture. I’m honestly trying to do y’all a favor and saving your precious time. I wish someone had done that for me.

Not for the Faint

It is not bad but it is graphic, probably too much for a lot of people. If that stuff isn’t for you then you might avoid this, I suppose.

Life is cruel sometimes, it is unfortunate what happens here. Sometimes the physics and logic were distracting. The gore is a lot at times. The story is simple, if a little light.

I thought it was fine. Not for children

I liked how we came to understand the main character. I don’t know what else to say, the gore and tone are suffocating enough it makes the stakes and pay-off that much more engaging.

Compared to the tone of Winter’s Bone, it is a good companion piece.