Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Curt Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

MBunge This film is a case of being able to perfectly judge a book by its cover. The opening credits say this film is "Johannes Roberts's Darkhunters". Yes. Roberts's, not Roberts'. That no one involved with this movie, including writer/director Johannes Roberts, was smart or just attentive enough to catch that punctuation mistake says it all. Darkhunters is delightfully bad.The suckitude begins almost at once as the story lapses into a flashback after the opening scene, but then goes into a flashback within that flashback. I t doesn't stop there, however, as there are repeated flashbacks within the flashback within the flashback. After briefly introducing us to the main character, the story then focuses on a completely different and seemingly unrelated person for the next 15 minutes. I thought there'd been some sort of editing problem and another film got spliced into this one by mistake. The plot is also dominated by three of the longest and worst conversations you'll ever see in any motion picture. One is so confusing you'd need a Venn Diagram to understand what's being said, another feels like a maze where writer/director Roberts got lost inside his own script and couldn't find a way out. As for the third…well, you know those scenes where two people are face to face while the camera spins around them? That's how the third conversation is filmed, except the camera keeps spinning around them for two and a half minutes. I'm not sarcastically exaggerating. I actually timed it out.But, wait! It gets worse. About a third of this movie is nothing more that slo-mo images of feline frolicking, like a complimentary DVD you get for subscribing to Cat Fancy magazine. Then there's a scene in a dog pound that resembles a TV commercial from the Humane Society. Lead actress Susan Paterno is so awful, they would have been better off casting college football coach Joe Paterno in drag. Lead actor Dominique Pinon looks like a little person somehow blown up to regular size. In one of the most inexplicable career decisions of all time, legitimate Hollywood actor Jeff Fahey shows up as a demon in dire need of lip balm and a manicure. Another demon shows up that speaks in an unintelligible garble, but is given subtitles that make him sound like a slightly peeved accountant.I could go on and on about all the absurdly terrible things in this motion picture. What amplifies the crap factor into "so bad it's good" territory is that so many of those absurdly terrible things are repeated over and over again, making it crystal clear that no one involved with this production knew their ass from their elbow. If you and your friends tried to turn Darkhunters into a drinking game, they'd find you all dead the next day from alcohol poisoning.The story itself is basically the secret origin of Carol Miller (Susan Paterno), a woman chosen by God to kill ghosts by shooting them in the chest with bullets. They are ghosts who have been forgotten about through some sort of divine administrative mistake, ghosts who are invisible to the naked eye yet have enough physical substance to do things like drive cars. Miller has to track down these ghosts and shoot them before demons show up to claim their souls for some sort of supernatural black market. And yes, when the ghosts are shot, they bleed and fall to the floor like corpses.Johannes Roberts's Darkhunters is one of the most awesomely, hilariously bad things I've ever seen. If that's what you're in the mood for, there isn't a much better example of it than this movie.

adam-byrne1 Out of all the films by Johannes Roberts, The moment I saw the intro, I know this would be great! and My god was it. This was completely shot on 35mm, for a low budget..this is a good thing. I love the whole film, it is beautifully composed and shot, its soo crisp! The story is solid too. The effects are great! This is one of the best things I watched for long time. I watched all of the Johannes Roberts films, and this one really stands out, I think its because of aesthetics, this is by far one of the most beautiful films I have seen in a long while. I watched them all: Sanitarum, Alice (aka hellbreeder), this ( dark hunters) and forest of the damned. And I still love this, Acting is good too. You must watch it if your not impressed by the into then, you wont like the rest of the film possibly. The effects are all really good. I cant get over how much I like this. Check it out!

dunkiin The main title sequence for Darkhunters is very well done. A series of black and red images set the scene for an adventure into the gritty line between life and death - a place that isn't just black and white. It's a place that's horribly funny, if you can get past the Ed Wood-ish editing.Cheesy dialogue, a terrible script, absolutely horrid camera-work and editing ... it's either an incredible disaster or a wonderful success. The main title sequence promised an interesting adventure - however, it appears they spent their entire production budget on this part of the film. Afterwards, we meet Charlie, a deranged psychotic who meets and interacts with a psychologist-turned-... what? Supposedly a 'bounty hunter of lost souls', but as portrayed in the film, she's just another deranged psychotic, and the merry pair go trick-or-treating in the land of long takes of cats in fields, fast-motion cloud shots, and terrible scripting; along the way they meet a Darth Maul look-a-like cat lover who mumbles all of his lines because his scary costume has been badly abused by a group of school children with fat magic markers. In essence, this film is a work of art beyond expectations. If you examine its parts, it is an utmost failure in almost every aspect. However, as a whole, may have you laughing through almost every scene like a deranged lunatic yourself.Definitely worth watching. It's no Citizen Kane, but I had a GREAT time viewing it. If some of the ludicrous shots had been cut shorter (exactly how long do we have to spend looking at cats and clouds?), it might even be worth watching TWICE. Cult Comedy potential is there.

thegoldenchild3 It's interesting seeing how the film seems to have split people down the middle - I guess never a bad thing for a film even when some people hate it as much as some people evidently do here. I myself would fall into the former category - I wouldn't say this is the best film I have ever seen but I really did enjoy it. When it works - The angel at the end of the film and the car crash amongst a couple of moments - the film is actually very very good. However this is offset against some weak and padded and just very (God very!!!)slow moments. Jeff Fahey is probably the best thing about the cast which is not something you can often say about Mr Fahey - and he is evidently enjoying the role as monster / pi. Dominique Pinon however has seen better days! Overall though it is an enjoyable watch - better than the director's last film Hellbreeder although equally strange in it's own way.