The Human Race

Plot synopsis:
An exciting, unpredictable and emotionally dramatic Horror/Sci-Fi Thriller starring Trista Robinson, Paul-McCarthy Boyington and Eddie McGee.THE HUMAN RACE is a feature-length science fiction action horror film starring Trista Robinson, Paul-McCarthy Boyington and Eddie McGee. It is directed by Paul Hough."The Human Race is a film that surprised even us. It's an absolute triumph of ingenuity in low-budget filmmaking, a smartly-scripted powerhouse that consistently plays against expectations to deliver an endearingly individualistic take on the genre. It takes a number of astonishing risks and it constantly introduces elements that would be used as manipulative devices in weaker films and then obliterates them without mercy."- Mitch Davis, FANTASIA Film Festival Co-DirectorIt has unique and groundbreaking characters which you just don't see in any type of movie. One of the leads (played by Eddie McGee) stands out because he has one leg. Two other leading characters are deaf and speak with sign language. The film could be described as an R-Rated thriller in the vein of The Hunger Games, Run Lola Run & Battle Royale. It is about a seemingly random chosen group of people who must take part in a surreal and terrifying race for survival.THE HUMAN RACE is about 80 people who find themselves in a foot race. They are given rules -If you are lapped twice, you will die.Do not step on the grass, or you will die.Race Or Die.First and foremost, people will enjoy this movie!The Human Race is extremely violent, edgy and unpredictable - a thrill ride you'll watch with a smile on your face!THE HUMAN RACE is much more than your average film. It is exciting, emotional and above all, unpredictable.90 minutes of a complete, refreshing, and unique horror movie experience well on it's way to becoming a cult classic with definite mainstream appeal.

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Review:
says nothing about the human condition (as purported from the existing reviews), only the sophomoric insight of a film-school reject who saw one too many eli roth movies.
There were some serious flaws in with the mentality of a bunch of poorly developed characters racing for their life (many not giving the impression they actually wanted to live - unconvincing in their actions).
The overall plot, acting, attempted and overused effects were very sub-par.After actually sitting through this mess (pop, pop, splat), it eventually concluded the absolute wrong direction (I won't reveal anything, in case someone else wants to donate some of their downtime taking this in - personally, I want my 1+ hour back).So as one of the other reviewers mentioned - much of the time spent on this movie was likely ramping up the IMDb rating and writing some rave reviews.
The way the film makers have used these two characters sign conversations are quite clever, I don't think I have seen an interaction like this before (but then I am fairly ignorant).The development of the characters as individuals is also done in timed manner.
But then again, there is basically no storyline.At best this in awful attempt at a poorly written, directed and acted splatter movie.
I am actually going to give this film a 6.5 and the reason why is because yes it was made on a small budget but to be honest its original.the acting is not as bad as some are saying or some I have seen.To give it a three would not be fair but i can see where a previous post did this in order to try to make the rating more realistic.
I have to admit that as I was watching I couldn't help but wonder what the ending would be like, and I was afraid that it would fall flat and ruin a perfectly breathtaking movie.
The idea could be pretty promising (taking into account the ending).However the film is completely let down by odd camera angles, bad acting, horrible script and complete lack of story or character building.I imagine this is someones first attempt at writing a script for a film.
The budget of this film was certainly not very high, but it makes up in the director's quality, occasionally very interesting angles of capturing the scenes, tense moments & sound effects and the story line is just out of this world.
I could forgive the low budget style of film making and less than stellar acting & effects, however the story was so poorly written and there's a whiff of misogyny within some of the dialogue and scenes that leaves a bad taste in your mouth.
The first thing you need to know about this film is that it is low- budget, funded by a kickstarter project and it doesn't have a single person in it that is known in the movie world.
Although this film is not for the film-goer who can only see films with bloated budgets and celebra-whores, the movie goers that do appreciate a film that takes risks and takes the honest yet disturbing route of displaying characters in ways that you're definitely not use to seeing, you will love and appreciate this film as much as I did.
I'm not going to write any spoilers but I will say that it had a very similar feel to movies like Cube so if you like to think it's well worth your time.The stand out performance was by Trista Robinson who presented an absolutely flawless portrayal of a girl who is deaf dealing with the insanity of the day and then some.I have to believe that anyone who trashes this movie would generally prefer not to be challenged, not to think.
I don't know how it was released (let alone in movie stores) and I'm not even sure how it has gotten a rating of above 2 on IMDb.The acting is horrendous, most elements of the movie are completely unrealistic and the final scene just makes the entire thing ever more confusing and far-fetched.
The last battle between the remaining two people is fantastic but not wanting to spoil it I don't really want to address the ending, however I'd strongly suggest to not read any spoilers about The Human Race since the best thing about it is the utter and complete unpredictability of what is going to happen next.
In 'The Human Race' random people get put into a race (or running contest) with very strict rules (we get to hear them 15 times throughout the film) the contestants have to follow or they die.
Lots of lower budget films hold no interest for me, but this particular film held me to the edge of my seat actually rooting for certain characters.It was a little confusing in the beginning, but part of the point of the movie is to keep you guessing.
If you are a fan of movies like Saw, I think you will enjoy The Human Race.The plot is simple enough.
I hate the fact that this movie had a 5.8 rating and I feel like I was conned into watching it, thinking okay if it gets that sort of rating it would be worth a look, trust me it's not worth 2 minutes of your time.
I'm not sure what these negative reviewers were expecting with the "Battle Royale" reference in the promos, I wasn't expecting big budget high-brow film-making myself.
I liked the two main male actors they did a good job portraying their brotherly bond, trista Robinson does a great job acting as a kind of goody good deaf girl turn cold blooded half insane survival woman!
The first unfortunate soul who breaks the don't keep off the grass rule, pays by having his head explode; much like in the film, "Scanners" from several years ago.
The main characters involve a deaf couple, a cripple, a priest, a pregnant woman, and it goes on, the variety and effort to stick away from typical archetypal heroes is well noticed and appreciated.It is a movie that most people can happily bypass, but by no means is it a waste of time...
From the beginning I had no idea what kind of film this was as it was sent to me by a friend, after the fist 20 minutes it seemed familiar reminding me of the original battle royale movie.
The concept of the movie is "saw" style play a game horror but just like battle royale the acting is pretty basic but this just adds to the likability.In this movie a group of mixed people are put into a prison type environment, they can hear a voice giving instructions all they have to do is workout how to survive!I really don't understand why some people are posting negative comments about this movie, it didn't have a huge budget but the way it has been put together is very impressive.
If you didn't take it too serious,& took it for what it was, you will enjoy it well I did any-ways,I like a bit of blood and gore,but not too much too often,else it spoils the film in my opinion,the concept was original & I like films which are a bit from the norm :)So give it a watch like I did & you will not live to regret it,pardon the pun :) Its a bit similar to Nine Dead which I really enjoyed because of its originality,which is a must watch too.Both films were intriguing,you had to work it out more in Nine Dead,in The Human race you had to keep watching to see how it was going to end,and the ending wasn't too far fetched,I guessed the ending would be along similar lines to which it was..
The Human Race is certainly a low budget film but it is actually pretty good.
With that being said here is my review.I love some good splatter films and The Human Race does not disappoint.
Eddie McGee and Trista Robinson give solid performances and are as good as any other actors in any other horror movie you can mention.The directing and camera work are good and there are some interesting scenes that pop out throughout the film.
yeah it could have a bigger budget, but for me, the movie was entertaining.The Human Race is about the crowd of people who have been kidnapped and forced to take part in a deadly game, where only one will survive.
One more thing worth mentioning are CGI effects that looked believable.If you appreciate horror flicks with good action scenes and blood splatter all over, you will like this movie.
If you answered 'Yes' to that then you should definitely watch 'The Human Race.' It's a film primarily about people's heads exploding (occasionally interspersed with the odd pick-axe through someone's neck).
There's only so much of a story you can build around eighty people who have to force each other's head to explode in order to survive.If you like your films short, sweet and filled with decapitated bodies, then give this one a go.And remember...
But don't let that put you off watching it, as the race does have a satisfactory conclusion.The camera looks low grade at times, and their is a distinct lack of colour in the image which makes the look of the movie feel cheap and low-budget.
But after fifteen minutes thats the last of them and we focus on the race, which is where the main interest is.The writers did a good job at creating characters that displayed all the different personality traits that people in these circumstances might have had.
I literally picked this movie off a list of 2013 horror films based off of the fact whether the blurb made the plot sound interesting or not.
The same for this movie: it was much better when it was a story about people surviving and seeing what they were, rather than X happening because Y demanded and picking these people.But hey, at least the final scene was cool.Overall, it's like one of the good Stephen King novels (particularly The Long Walk -done properly, might I add) with a not-so-stellar ending.Definite recommendation..
if she had no character in race then why director put some effort to play her part in start.No storyline about how they got there, or how they gets killed, anything was just like rocket science.
There are scenes in this film where I had my hands on my face whilst watching and there were bits I was laughing my head off (...literally no pun intended there but my god that's good...
I was hooked right through to the very end, I feel like we were watching different films?The 2 (main) deaf characters really are awesome and for me were the most enjoyable characters to watch, not to mention brilliantly acted.There is a recurring theme of challenging our most common prejudices in society throughout the film, some unfortunately a little too unsubtle, but it does pain me to say they don't really lead to any good message or moral as far as I could tell.
The bad thing about the film is that the poster makes it look like a big budget movie but it certainly isn't so at first I was a little put off by that but then once I got over it I enjoyed this greatly..
Splice that with offbeat cuts glued together from different odd angles and actors trying too hard to normalise an extraordinary situation then we are left with a film wanting more.It started out actually pretty captivating but as the plot plods on slowly the "Battle Royale" comparison gets obnubilated in a sheath of random clichés.
Somewhere in the middle the cliché horror vibes start to take over and are not necessarily the most 'new' thing about "The Human Race"But it is a horror film, not a psychological thriller, not a sic-fi, a blood and guts, terror horror and by a first time feature filmmaker.
The dialogue is downright bad, the acting is mostly below average, and the limited special effects budget definitely shows.It  still held my attention, though, thanks to a devilish story concept and some brutal plot turns.
(Eighty diverse strangers are mysteriously transported to an isolated location, where powerful unseen entities force them to eliminate one another in a "race" to the death.) I do realize that there have been a spate of low- budget, "Saw"-inspired movies like this, and that this kind of story device should be familiar to horror movie fans by now.But there is some pathologically wicked story development here — consider, for example, that contenders include an elderly man, a pregnant woman and a veteran who has had a leg amputated.
They put many emotion into my heart when watching this movie and I would recommend to anyone who is looking for a good times.
Please let me know if this is helpful to you if you watched the Human Racing movie.
But still, for the sake of entertainment (and this is a movie after all), then it worked out nicely enough.The movie has a fair amount of blood and violence, which sort of semi makes up for the lack of a proper storyline."The Human Race" is not heavy on acting.
Having seen it once is enough for me, and I can honestly say that I will not be watching it a second time.The best thing about the movie had to be the genius of the title, it worked out in more than one way.
So if you like the Saw movies, The Descent films, or even Death Race, well it's all there, well as a lot of other great stuff that you have never seen before.
acting is bad, plot inexistent, exploding heads, violence just for the sake of it, people running around in some mysterious nonsense race, great body chick not showing any nudity...
Even though the acting wasn't top notch, that was made up with the storyline and the concept.What I liked the most about this film was that it took people from all walks of life and showing them that no matter who they are, life isn't always fair, this movie however showed it in a gruesome way.
Sure, the acting was pretty bad, the 'storyline' was ridiculous, some of the devices were of questionable taste (exploding baby-bump, anyone?) and the script was 6th form at best, but it gets some stars for hooking me and making me watch until the end, if only to find out what the hell was going on.
If you like a gory romp with little or no plot, zero character development, an ultimately unsatisfactory conclusion, but plenty of the red stuff, and you have an hour or two of your life to waste, then The Human Race is for you..
It takes quite a unique approach to the genre.Any film that dares to match a one-legged anti-hero against a deaf couple against an old dude against kids against a pregnant woman against athletes in a head exploding arena, takes a real stand against the common stereo-types of horror movies.
This movie is nothing like battle royal, that was a good film, this just mean and nasty in not good ways.
The entire movie is about a bunch of people getting their heads blown off for breaking the rules to a race.All the characters do is run around in circles.
So many times I thought 'I should turn this off now as I'm wasting my life' but it got to a point where I thought I should just finish it, in case something amazing happens at the end...The fact that the movie begins by focusing on the life of a young woman, creating a back story for her and her family, with an array of short scenes lasting about 16 seconds each, would make you think that she would be the protagonist in this feature.
I have no idea what the writers were thinking.I feel as though the good reviews on this site have been left by people involved with the film and their friends, because nobody in their right mind could actually LIKE this.
the only thing i feel this film could do with is getting more money and explaining how the hell they decided to get them from earth to a different planet against aliens at the end n go a little more on that i can only assume that a number 2 will be out soon rather than later and i will have to watch it but please try and save hour n half of ya life by not watching one of the worst z list movies going.
But not The Human Race, its has enough twists,tension, excellent pacing and great acting to make what could turn out to be a popular movie through-out 2014 and beyond, as I feel it will also prove to be a successful slow burner and show up on many peoples cult classic lists in years to come..
Rules are simple, but the runners aren't.......Its a sound idea, executed with an element of success, but the fundamental flaw of the film is that the majority of the characters are highly unlikeable, and the ones that appear to be 'good' end up doing abhorrent acts that make you dislike them.The ones that do this in the most bizarre way are the one legged chap, and the deaf couple.
Another is a scene of attempted rape that many will find disturbing and quite intense.Everything about "The Human Race" will remind you of another better movie you saw.
To begin, I had heard that this was like a combination of the hunger games and Stephen King's "The long walk" Instead, what I saw was a bloody and pointlessly gore filled movie that had little character development, and more than necessary controversial acts.