Redsin Tower (2006)
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Directed by: Fred Vogel
Starring: Bethany Newell (Kim), Perry Tiberio (Mitch Allen), Jessica Kennedy (Becky Adams), Peter Schmidt (Phil), Meghan O’Halloran (Emily), A.C. Earing (Steve), Billy D. Martin (Carl), Fred Vogel (Phil’s older brother)
Country: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 01:27:38
Genres: Gore-Gruesome, Scat, Vampirish creatures
Plot – Spoilers:
Fred Vogel of August Underground fame, steps out of his zone here – maybe he shouldn’t have.
So we have Kim breaking up with Mitch the bitch, who when he’s done weeping, loses his mind and goes looking for her. Kim and her friends meanwhile have decide to party at the Redsin Tower, a shady place at best.
The film takes a while of bad slasher buildup before Mitch finally gets to the tower, but when he does, there are other entities lurking around.
Redsin Tower is a stepdown for Vogel and is probably worth a watch only for its relatively rare-to-find nature. It also doesn’t help that the quality of the copy here is of the potato kind.
To start off, I respect & admire Fred Vogel for actually trying to tell a story that isn’t just a gore-fest. Don’t get me wrong, I love the August Underground movies, but I wanted to see him evolve as an artist. Is this movie good? No, not really.
In my opinion, this movie has a lot of flaws. The main issue I have is that fact that it takes SO LONG for the movie to kick off. Most of the movie involves watching our dumbass teenage characters partying, saying bad dialogue, smoking weed, making out, etc. In this 80 minute movie, the carnage & action doesn’t really start until around 45/50 minutes in. That is just too long for nothing remotely interesting to happen. Additionally, the camera quality is incredibly blurry and it makes it hard to see what the heck is going on, especially when they’re in the tower itself. I also HATE the ending of this movie. Not to spoil, but a certain character seemingly gets a happy ending, and I wanted him so badly to get viciously violated & murdered.
Overall, this movie had potential to be awesome. It could have been a cool cross between Evil Dead & some classic Fulci movies, like The Beyond or Gates of Hell. However, this movie is a boring pile of forgettable poop. 3/10.
Fred Vogel never ceases to amaze.
Truly gross and effed up. I watched standing up, and found myself literally cringing in the invisible demon rape scene; ugh the green crotch slime and maggots… Anyway, totally worth the watch. Mitch is hysterical. He reminds me of the gore version of Ghost Busters Rick Moranis character-whatever that demon’s name was? Zule, or something?
I have mixed feelings about this movie, I’ve watched worse shit, this is Charles Band tier. Some parts were ripoffs of evil dead and that 2000s remake of house on haunted hill but Vogel didn’t get any of them right. I think is still a good movie to watch on halloween, and I have a soft spot for those cheesy nu metal soundtracks.
Dumb ass ending, bad acting, bad script, awful FX (stupid looking lizard puppet, screen flashing, shaking and spinning), some ok gore, and an okay campy exploitation vibe… 3/10.
Great film.
Legit fell asleep this shit was so boring.. disappointed Fred! :/
Too slow at the start, but when it got going there was some decent gore and fx and it was genuinely creepy. I quite enjoyed it unlike the AU series, which was just pointless crap designed to gross ppl out. That said, there was some gross stuff here too, vomit, maggots and a torrent of shit, so if thats not for you, you should pass. Overall, well done.
man the movie called the silence is still my favorite horror movie it’s a master piece with rich story and lot of potential. i love movies like that not just empty low budget acting crap.
Been trying to find this film for ages as a fan of the AU films
Sadly this doesnt hit the mark for me, takes a little too long to get going (which wouldnt be a problem if the dialogue was better) and when it gets to the action, the gore isnt really upto what i was expecting from ToeTag (although the effects are well done)
Still glad i have seen it, only Sella Turica to see and i have finished the collection
not bad but stupid ending
If you don’t expect too much your going to enjoy it. Watchable film
i think that booze they were drinking might’ve been formaldehyde.
You beautiful bastards. Been looking for this for a while. Thanks!!!
This and Sella Turcica showed us that Fred Vogel should really stick to more rugged August Underground-styled films. He’s clearly very skilled at gore FX and depicting depravity, but writing dialogue, directing actors, visual composition, narrative storytelling and other such directorial qualities are clearly beyond his grasp. The AU films showed off his skills and opaqued his deficiencies, with these kind of films it’s the other way around.
Either way thanks for this. I saw it years ago and haven’t been able to find it since, so it’s cool to know it has a home somewhere even if I don’t really want to watch it again.