Vashirdfel Simply A Masterpiece

TaryBiggBall It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

ministerbob I just watched it and I am angry. How can they be allowed to produce such a bad film! For your own sake, don't watch it!! You'll save yourself a irritating ordeal. There is nothing with this film that is good.. I normally Like low-budget horrors and slashers like the ones from Troma, but this is a new low. The acting is really poor, the directing sucks, the story is laughable but the worst thing about it is the dialogue. Save the world and burn every copy ever produced of this piece of S***. If I could rate it lower, I would!! Minus 10 is more suitable. An advice to all the actors in it; Stop try to act. You are terrible!! You don't have to take my word for it. But you should. //An angry Markus

Paul Andrews Heartstopper starts late one stormy night as convicted serial killer Jonathan Chambers (James Binkley) is executed in the electric chair, he is pronounced dead & taken to a nearby hospital to undergo an autopsy. However en-route Sheriff Berger (Robert Englund) runs into a suicidal teenager named Sara Wexler (Meredith Henderson) crouched in the middle of the road, she is put in the ambulance along with Chambers dead body & taken to the hospital. Sara is seen to & Chambers body is taken to be autopsied, however Chambers isn't dead & comes back to life. He needs to change bodies & Sara is it, he stalks the corridors of the hospital looking for her & ripping out the heart of anyone who gets in his way...This Canadian production was directed by Bob Keen & one has to say that Heartstopper isn't the most enjoyable was to spend 85 minutes. The script by Vlady Pildysh & Warren P. Sonoda takes itself very seriously & seems to have taken it's inspiration from Wes Craven's Shocker (1989) & House III: The Horror Show (1989) with it's evil deranged killer back from the electric chair type plot, in fact when I think about it there hasn't been an evil deranged killer back from the electric chair type horror film for quite a while which is understandable really. Here in Heartstopper no explanation is given as to why or how Jonathan Chambers survived & came back from the dead, none. Sure there's some sort of living tattoo on his arm & he has some sort of magical pendant around his neck but no concrete explanation is given at any point. Once Chambers comes back to life Heartstopper goes into standard clichéd & predictable teen slasher mode as the rest of the film is spent running around the darkest hospital in film history with Sara & some black dude trying to survive, at no point does anyone suggest they should try to phone anyone which is odd. When the lights go out why don't the generators come on? Why is it so hard to find a way out? Can't they just open a window & climb out or something? One character remarks whether it's a hospital or a prison which is a very good point, I can't believe there is not one single exit or window they could have left through. The character's aren't great, the main teenage leads are annoying & Chambers as a villain is awful as he spouts some really bad dialogue which I suspect was meant to be scary & meaningful but ends up sounding terrible, he just has no on screen menace at all.Director Keen started off in the horror film biz as a special effects make-up man working on films such as Krull (1983), Lifeforce (1985), Highlander (1986), Hellraiser (1987), Waxwork (1988), Candyman (1992), Event Horizon (1997) & Dog Soldiers (2002) amongst others & has more recently turned his attention to directing. No offence Bob but stick to what your good at & directing isn't one of them. Heartstopper is set in probably the darkest & most underpopulated hospital in history, there's about six doctors & six patients! There is a fair amount of gore which saves Heartstopper from being a complete dud, there are the expected ripped out hearts, someones stomach & chest are torn open, there's scalpels in eyeballs & slashed throats, there's mutilated bodies & corpses with their faces torn off & there's plenty of blood splatter too. I wouldn't say Heartstopper is scary, in fact because of the distinct lack of lighting it becomes very frustrating to watch. There's an annoying scene near the start where the doctor is about to perform the autopsy on Chambers body & ask's for the lights to be turned out! I have never performed an autopsy myself but I would imagine being able to see & having the lights on was a basic requirement!According to the IMDb Heartstopper had a budget of about $3,000,000 which I must say does sound quite a lot for what actually ended up on screen, there's nothing here which stands out although it is well made with good special effects. Shot in Ontario in Canada. The acting isn't great, it's alright but not great. Mr cameo himself Robert Englund makes yet another smallish appearance in a cheap horror flick, he's made a career out of it hasn't he?Heartstopper is an OK teen slasher, it only lasts for 80 odd minutes so at least it's short & there's a fair amount of pleasing gore but a silly script that has lots of loose ends & an annoying location means this is average at best. Heartstopper isn't the worst slasher out there but it's far from the best, you can do better if you try.

cynosureboy Well, I would suggest a simple test for my recommendation for this movie. I presume that you wanna watch a good horror movie. Stand in front of a mirror, and make some scary faces. Now, if you got scared by looking at your own scary face, then you should watch this movie. And if looking at your face made you laugh, then don't go for this movie, because it wont even make you laugh.Very poor dialogs, worst casting (esp the killer who is terribly unscary) and a lots of technical mistakes.I am still trying to think of at least one good thing about this movie...well I am done thinking...Nothing Good ! I mean it

CMRKeyboadist HeartStopper is a very predictable horror/slasher film that uses the same ideas we have seen time and time again. Directed by Bob Keen, who is the same director who gave us the silly B movie Proteus, Keen doesn't do a much better job with this movie. It seems to put Halloween 2 and Wes Cravens Shocker into one movie.The movie starts with our serial killer already apprehended by the hands of the local Sheriff played by Robert Englund. Chambers (the killer) is already to be fried in the electric chair and pulls a similar type of performance of that of Horace Pinker from Shocker or Max Jenke from The Horror Show. After being fried (horribly) the sheriff and the coroner are taking the body to the local hospital when they almost hit a suicidal girl named Sara. Along with the body, they take her to the hospital as well. Once in the coroners room, Chambers rises from the dead and murders the coroner and anyone else who gets in his way as he tries to make it to Sara to take her body and use it as his own.What this movie lacks is some background of the characters and and any real terror. The character of Chambers is played WAY over the top and is just not a believable performance. Meredith Henderson, who played the part of Sara, didn't do such a bad job and was actually pleasant to watch. Robert Englund as the Sheriff seems a bit silly, but, he was really the only true highlight of the film and he gets killed off very early in the movie.Now onto the gore/violence department. Anyone that is going to rent or buy a movie called HeartStopper is expecting a great deal of violence. For my taste, there wasn't enough. I have seen plenty of movies where the subject matter is of people getting there hearts ripped out so that didn't bother me. But, there is one particular scene that is worth seeing just for that scene alone. Let's just say that Chambers decides to perform surgery on an unsuspecting victim.Well, there have been far better movies then this over the years. As far as slasher movies go, this is one of those weak links. I would suggest watching if there is nothing else on, or, if you just have to see everything that Robert Englund is in. 6/10