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Omarion Grandberry, Brooklyn Sudano, Marques Houston, Alexis Fields, Amanda Lee ... see more see more... , Brittany Oaks , Christopher Jones , Donna DuPlantier , Garrison Koch , Irene Stokes , Jessica Friedman , Jessica Szohr , Jim Wilkey , John Wiltshire , Luke Fryden , Sonny King , Stephen Snedden , Todd Thomas

A weekend getaway turns unexpectedly horrific for a group of vacationing young adults when quick trips into the nearby town continually result in death. Brendan Young (Marques Houston) and Darryl Jenn... read more read more...ings (Omarion) have gathered a group of fun loving friends for a relaxing retreat into the woods, but it isn't long before these hard-partying pals are fighting for their lives. It seems as if every time they take a trip into town someone in the group ends up missing or dead. Now, with their numbers quickly dwindling, the survivors must race to uncover the gruesome truth behind this small town before everyone is dead and there's no one left to tell their tale. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

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Unrated, 1 hr. 35 min.

Directed by: Chris Stokes

Release Date: November 13, 2007

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  • Deano78
    July 11, 2011
    Deano78
    A very poor, low budget made for TV horror. It has no real plot, not much is explained for the story or the reason for the killer. The acting is bad, the script even worse. Some of the characters appear and disappear just as quickly. It doesn't have many kill scenes as such. Mild... read morely gory in a couple of scenes. Really though this is pretty bad and just about any other horror film is better than this! I can't believe it got a sequel!!
  • matertenebraum
    October 3, 2010
    matertenebraum
    Just got a screener of the DVD 'Somebody Help Me'...After reading mixed reviews - a lot of pretty good ones mind, I was quite looking forward to seeing it. The story seemed pretty familiar, five couples go to a cabin in the woods, slasher killer around picking them off one by one... read more...you know the rest!!! But as soon as the film was on I thought it was pretty good. The acting was quite good, above average for a DTV film, and the setting was really good I thought. They chucked in the obvious 'IT COULD BE'S' like all these films do, but this had a kind of supernatural twist to it too, which never really materialised into anything.

    But it had a kind of 'HOSTEL feel to it too. I don't want to spoil things too much!!!

    Also it did have some nice gore effects, (I'm a massive gorehound) although not a gorefest by any stretch of the imagination. This for me was heading for a strong 3/5 the ending was "Oh, is that it...", it left me totally unsatisfied and kind of cheated in a way as it just did'nt explain what I had just seen for the last hour and a half.

    Massive let down for us - maybe somebody may be able to help me out! -I just did'nt get it.
  • brandankurtis
    January 16, 2011
    brandankurtis
    "Somebody Help Me!" quite frankly sucks. In a way I was expecting something from this flick, as it sounded cool and looked watchable. However, Somebody Help Me is just a mess of a movie which can't decide what it wants to be. There is no suspense, no memorable kills, a weak kille... read morer and brain-dead (as well as wasted) characters. Ugh, what a disappointment.

    The movie tells the story about two best friends and their girlfriends who head out to a cabin to celebrate one of the girlfriends' birthday. The next night, they are joined by 6 other friends for the party. Within the next 10 minutes of the movie, all 6 of them are missing, the two girlfriends go missing soon after and it's up for the two best friends to save their friends from a killer.

    One of the things I hated about this movie was the lack of characterization and how annoying the lead characters are. I mean, the characterization is really poor and I couldn't see the point of most of the characters as they did absolutely nothing in the movie. For instance, these 6 other friends who join the group are barely even seen. Four of them appear for around 2 minutes and then go missing, only to get killed not long after - and the other two (including a likable asthmatic) go missing off-screen and the writers just come up with an excuse of "Oh, she went to look for blah blah". Honestly, if you are going to introduce 6 characters for around 2 minutes and get rid of them straight away, only to appear for another 2 minutes and kill them off...WHAT IS THE POINT? Even the two girlfriends go missing for most of the movie, and by then I just thought it was a joke. Moving on from this, the only likable characters are the "nice" girlfriend and the asthmatic. Everyone else is annoying and the two lead male characters...well, you just can't root for them.

    The acting is standard, but nothing great. Marques Huston and Omarion do OK jobs but their characters are annoying and stupid, so you can't really find them likable. Jessica Szhor plays the asthmatic and does a great job, but has absolutely nothing to do except have asthma attacks and get less than 5 minutes screen time. The two girlfriends are rather good, but again don't have much to do. Everyone else is OK, but because they get minimal screen time you can't really say they did their jobs right. They hardly got any lines or screen time.

    The horror itself is poor. I mean, one second this movie is a slasher, the next second people are being tortured in chairs, and then the next second it feels like a supernatural movie with a little girl (turns out she's actually human...*gasps*...that's not how they made it look), then moves back to the slasher, and then back to the torture...WTF. Last time I checked this was supposed to be a slasher. Anyhow, the movie is hardly gory and not scary in the slightest. Most of the "missing" characters spend their time in cages for the rest of the movie or are strapped to a chair and tortured while "emotional" music plays...yeah, were supposed to feel sorry for a character who we saw for 2 minutes. I found those parts laughable and there are no memorable kills in the movie. In fact, seeing as this movie has quite a few characters...hardly any of them get killed! As for the killer, well he's completely weak and unscary and pops up at the most convenient times. He seems to appear just as another character turns around, and this keeps on happening again and again. The killers' back-story however, appears interesting but could have gone into a little more detail.

    Overall, Somebody Help Me! is a disappointment. It has a weak killer, so many dumb moments it's ridiculous, very poor characterization and just feels poor all around as it can't decide what it wants to be. Well, I'll decide for them...it's crap.
  • kcddck
    January 19, 2010
    kcddck
    I thought that this was going to be really bad, and even though it wasn't great, it was still watchable. The acting was alright, nothing special that stood out, but nothing too terrible either. There was a little gore and the scene where the girl is having her scalp cut off and i... read moret being replaced was a little gruesome, but the ending was something that you could see a mile away and that is why this movie is getting ranked any higher. More creativity to the ending makes this a better movie.
  • daynadadiva
    March 12, 2009
    daynadadiva
    The best in the bunch of recent "Urban Slashers"

    I quite liked "Somebody Help Me".

    It was more realistic than alot of the movies of this genre"my fav"..Both Omarion and Marques do a good job acting as does the rest of the cast.

    It has some good gory kill scene... read mores,a little bit of supernatural"I usually dont care for that in my slashers,but it works here".

    and it deals with REALITY as far as when the teens bring up the question(Will the white town people and sheriff believe us ,we're Black)When wanting to report their freinds missing and the fact that they think ther's a killer on the loose.

    They unfortunatly are staying in a cabin too close for comfort to a disgruntled psycho maniac plastic surgeon wannabe who takes his captives and locks them in small dog like cages and then performs plastic sugery on them.. WELL lets say he doesn't have a very good bedside manner.

    The 2 main characters played by Omarion and Marques do what a person SHOULD do when confronting a maniac.. not what steriotypical white characters do.

    I wont give anymore away..

    But like I said I liked it and have watched it 3 times.
  • bigsistertotre
    April 26, 2008
    bigsistertotre
    Uhhh... not one of the best movies. I watched it on BET a long time ago, and I had to turn my head on some torture scenes. It wasn't that good. It could have been better.
  • MECreviews
    April 3, 2008
    MECreviews
    I saw this movie on the BET channel a while back. It has its moments of shock or whatever, but for the most part, it isn't that great. It seems like the same ol' tale of campers getting killed in the woods. It's labeled as "horror", but isn't scary at all. LOL. Overall it was 'al... read moreright'.
  • 1HotGrandma
    January 12, 2008
    1HotGrandma
    Nothing really new here. Some torture scenes, a few did make me look away. Not a bad movie, but not one I would say you should rush out to rent. Worth seeing if have nothing else to watch.
  • jazmyneb92
    January 9, 2008
    jazmyneb92
    it was ok but kinda predictable and the ending sucked it was basically bullshit at some parts it was a very typical plot for ascary movie
  • serena2u2
    January 2, 2008
    serena2u2
    stereotypical.. new kids to a redneck community and someone is cutting them up.. not as much gore as I would like, but was an okay movie.. one of those gallery rentals after they go off the new list..

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Kam Williams
November 12, 2007
Kam Williams, NewsBlaze

Just the right mix of red herrings, scantily-clad coeds making ill-advised choices and macho dudes being cut down to size to keep you on the edge of your seat for the duration. Full Review

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