Cradle of Fear
Tags: violence, revenge, gothic, murder, sadist

Plot synopsis:
The opening scene sees "The Man" being approached and attacked by two muggers in a dark alley of London. As the muggers check their seemingly unconscious victim for cash, The Man regains consciousness and brutally kills them. Around that time, Inspector Peter Neilson is investigating the apparent murder scene of the young Melissa and Nikki. In a flashback, the two girls are shown in a goth club looking to pick up men. Melissa spotted The Man and took him home. After spending the night with him, she began hallucinating about the people around turning to her with monstrous faces and voices. Melissa went to Nikki's house to seek help, then a creature burst out of Melissa's womb and attacked Nikki, killing both.
Sophie and Emma break into a house in a burglary attempt. When Emma finally finds a box of money under a bed, a bony old man pops up from the bedcovers and attacks her. The girls stab and bludgeon the old man multiple times before he finally dies. Intending to keep the loot to herself and seeing Emma as a liability for revealing their plan to her sister, Sophie kills Emma and runs home. There, the re-animated bodies of Emma and the old man appear and stab Sophie to death. All three bodies are found by the police at Sophie's house.
As the dead bodies are identified, Inspector Neilson links them to an earlier case he had solved in the past. The case involved a man named Kemper, former hypnotist and son of infamous Satanist Anthony Crawley. Kemper had been using his skills to manipulate, abduct and kill children for over 25 years until he was apprehended by Neilson, tried and committed to a lunatic asylum. Neilson's boss has Kemper transferred to another facility so that his cell can be investigated.
Nick Holland is an amputee who is unable to engage in sexual activity with his girlfriend Natalie due to his frustration with the loss of his left leg in a prior accident. Nick visits his old friend Thomas and shoots him in the head. He then removes Thomas' left leg, puts it on ice and has it transplanted to himself by his doctor overnight. Nick goes through rehabilitation and eventually becomes able to move his transplanted leg. One night, while driving with Natalie, Nick loses control of his leg which steps on the accelerator, resulting in a crash that instantly kills Natalie. As two policemen arrive on the scene, they witness Nick stab himself to death, then The Man appears and kills them both. Meanwhile, a hit list is found in Kemper's old cell, containing the names and addresses of those responsible for his capture and their relatives, including the recent victims and Neilson himself. During his confinement, Kemper had also managed to give a copy of the list to The Man.
Richard is a reporter with a morbid obsession for extreme pornography and snuff films. One day he finds a website offering real-time footage of people being attacked and tortured on commands issued by the user. Richard's escalating obsession with the website causes him to lose his job and, eventually, his house. While attempting to log into the site from an internet cafe, he receives an email from an anomymous sender who reveals the location of the house where the live footage is filmed. Upon reaching the house, Richard is taken by the homeowner to the supposed location of the filming equipment, but instead he finds himself on the set of the snuff filming, where he is murdered by two masked men upon orders issued remotely by The Man. As his body is found and identified, Richard is revealed to be Neilson's son.
Determined to avenge his son and end the streak of killings, Neilson goes to the facility where Kemper is held and forces the staff to take him to Kemper's cell at gunpoint. He shoots Kemper in a leg and arm, but is immobilised by reinforcement guards before he can kill him. The Man, disguised as one of the guards, uses a machete to kill the director of the facility and the remaining guards, and is now revealed to be Kemper's son. Neilson shoots The Man, blowing half his head off, then delivers the fatal gunshot to Kemper. The Man however gets back on his feet and, with claws and tentacles emerging from the remaining half of his head, supposedly kills Neilson off-camera.

Review: I'm sure they had little money available for this title, so of course the sf aren't really that good, or a bit bad now and then, or just plain hilarious, but it's the story that makes this film a waste of time and money.
To me the basic principals behind a B-Horror movie is it's camp value, Heavy Gore, Lots of needless Nudity, and special effects that anyone can put together with a pack of corn syrup and latex.
The script is a totally incoherent and unbalanced mess, the special effects are only special in that they're especially pathetic, and as for the acting, well, let's just say that if this had been my graduating play at primary school, my teachers would have burst out crying at our talent.Of course I realise that this is a very low budget film and that in those cases one should lower one's expectations, certainly as far as things like special effects are concerned.
Having been a fan of the band Cradle of Filth for many years, I was inclined to watch this movie.
The storyline as a whole, I think, is really good (although a little disjointed at times) and the characters were really diverse, the acting wasn't the best I've seen but when is it in a horror movie!
Another thing that added to it's horror movie quality was the low budget special effects, they weren't awful, but you could tell at times that they looked fake.
At over 2 hours it's about 30-45 minutes too long for a movie with no major plot or story behind it.Summary----The film is low budget (not a crime as I like quite a few low budget flicks) and it shows.The acting is stiff, unbelievable, and many times almost monotone.The dialouge itself creates some of the poor acting.
Hell Lloyd Kaufman of Troma films looks like a master compared to Chandon.The effects are just plain bad.
If I wanted to laugh I would have popped in Braindead (aka Dead Alive) or Toxic Avenger.Rating 4/10 (and I'm being kind)Suggestion, if you want a gore soaked movie laced with atmospheric elements of horror go out and buy the unrated edition of Lucio Fulchi's 'The Beyond'.
In my opinion I think that it is a clever story line, being a fan of cradle of filth I like the soundtrack and the actor (the man.Instead of ordinary horror films, cradle of fear has 4 different stories all linked by one theme, so f you don't like a part of it, there is a lot more in the film.
Having Dani Filth as a lead actor is automatically going to make some people like this movie.
The storyline, what I could make out of it, was pretty good although many parts are left dangling and the lack of conversation leaves one often wondering what's happening.In the end, Cradle of Fear is like a porno for people who love sex and violence, but like a porno trying to pull of a storyline, it just doesn't work too well.
The difference is that most people don't usually try and pass them off as feature films.The plot attempts to tie four small stories into some kind of cohesive whole, but the fact is that most of these segments don't really make much sense.
This is not one of those films that's so bad it's good, so don't get taken in by that line of reasoning.In my experience, the music and imagery of Cradle Of Filth appeals mainly to young, oh-so-rebellious just-turned-teenagers and goth/metal fans who take themselves far too seriously.
It reminds me of some of the gore-fests created out of Italian horror some 20 to 30 years ago, and a number of other works where disgusting images have left their mark but not the context in which they were viewed.Story 4 of the set is particularly intriguing where the idea of ones obsession can ultimately lead to death in the pursuit of internet violence through the "Sick Room", where the user is in control of how a life can be snuffed out.
Watching this film is an experience between boredom, laughing fits, death wish, sadism, horniness and entertainment on a low level.So if you like gory movies with stupid plots this one is the right film for you.I gave it 3/10, because it CAN be entertaining if you don't expect to see a good movie and you're in the right mood..
Featuring a score by the mighty Cradle Of Filth, starring their frontman Dani and being hyped up as "the future of British horror", I expected Alex Chandon's gore fest to live up to the hype.I was wrong.Everything about this film is either cliche or inept.
too many good horror films  made in the seventies and eighties do this so much better with far superior gore effects (eg: maniac, zombie flesh eaters, the beyond, suspiria etc), rendering Cradle of Fear, in my mind, second-rate and obsolete.I hope Chandon can learn from this hideous ghoul of a film and go on to make some quality horror that actually scares.Better luck next time..
I suppose the real fans of this film would probably have to be sadistic and Gothic to care about it without taking in any CGI or any other effects for that matter, I hope Alex Chandon learnt a lesson about lighting and SFX to make a better film in the future, that is, if he is still in work.Notes to buyers this is extremely disappointing, DON'T BUY IT!!!!!.
If you have money and time(2 hours to watch and 15 minutes to vomit) to waste,if you like Dani Filth (I hope not) and if you like to see naked goth girls than watch this movie.2/10.
The gore is over the top but as mentioned in another posting, this film is so amateur, they are not going to be offended by it, and require cuts.The back cover of the DVD, list the FX done by the team that did the FX for 'Black Hawk Down', well it must of been the runner who was the link, as there is no way in hell anybody involved in this peace of crap will ever have a any professional work on a "real" movie.Avoid like the plague..
When the site vanishes, Richard seeks information finding the truth about the movies."Cradle of Fear" is a collection of four original, erotic and gory horror tales.
Using great special effects, performances and music score, sexy actresses and lots of blood, I liked very much this surprisingly good B-movie, but the Satanism used to entwine the four tales with the investigation of Detective Neilson does not work very well and is the weak part of the tales.
well, let's just suggest he might want to stick to yelling incoherently into a microphone for 3 minutes and calling it 'music' than consider himself capable of 'acting'.As others have mentioned, plenty of ripoffs which I for one, would love to see the big guys in the movie world take this band of clowns to the cleaners for.Damn shame there isn't a zero or negative score available..
CRADLE OF FEAR is a shot-on-video horror anthology film from cinema bad boy Alex Chandon, and starring Dani Filth from the heavy metal band CRADLE OF FILTH.
Filth is clearly no actor and thankfully limited to appearing in the nonsensical wraparound story, so at least the viewer can watch the four main tales collected here without his presence.This movie was described as a tribute to the likes of the Amicus film ASYLUM, but viewers looking for similarities between the two titles are likely to be sorely disappointed.
Cradle Of Fear puts the brutality back into British Horror, pulling no punches and laughing bare-faced at all who think slasher-flicks need meaning and plot, lets not forget, psychopathy is by its very nature beyond all reason!!!Medlinchild.
Whether you will enjoy the film will depend on whether you can get past the low-budget video look, several bad performances and the at times laughable effects.
It do have bad acting, terrible and easy to spot effects, not much of a story, but even if the movie is 40 minutes too long, it didn't feel like it, and it was fun.
You can kill and mutulate as many as you want on film for my part, because it all i make believe, but real stuff crosses a line, and I didn't like that they put this in the movie.But the rest was fun.
From the opening shots where we see a man's obviously foam rubber head torn apart, through to tacky cheap prop hammers, the creature effects and the terrible cg, there was nothing in there that impressed me at all.The acting is abominable, from the near-comatose detective to the brummie dwarf, via Dani Filth, the least convincing horror movie bad guy I have ever witnessed.
Look out for the 'Mental Asylum' - a Georgian semi detached house with a bad cg sign outside, and the most bizarre (and not in a good way) padded cell I have seen.It took me four attempts to get to the end of the film without my attention wandering (nay, running) away at any available opportunity.
Also, they managed to find some very good-looking actresses willing to take off clothes.The movie kept me interested enough to carry on watching (not the story or script, just to see how people die), something that many big-budget films occasionally fail at.
Considering I watched it alone, it would be a great film to watch with some friends and a drink - assuming you are looking for a comedy involving splattering heads.I don't want my review to say that the movie is good.
There is the issue of poor quality in sound and video that might be hurting this movies score as well, I felt like laughing at a lot of the sound effects and some of the acting.
Well lads don't get me wrong, I LOVE cradle of Filth, but this film only enticed me into watching it purely for the reason that Dani is in it.
The chap who directed this film doesn't look like he has a lot going for him unfortunately, I hardly see this to be a good horror flick.
I've seen quite a few low-budget shot-on-video horror movies, and probably the main way this one stands out compared to the others is that it's often quite funny and rarely boring.
Sure, there's a lot of bad dialog, bad acting, cheap effects and the like, but, with the exception of the Internet section (hint: it's hard to make people looking at a computer screen interesting in a movie), I rarely found myself looking at my watch.It's not exactly Hollywood standard and suffers somewhat from a script which feels like a series of short films tied together into a feature, but if you like cheap gory horror (e.g. Troma movies) then you could to a lot worse; and trust me on that, I've seen many of the worse movies you could be watching!.
The EFFECTS: This film was made with the intent of looking cheap, the man who came up with the concept (Daniel Davey) is a great fan of old-cult horror films, including the bad effects.
So, seeing as how this is factual, I see not why people hold its low-budget against it.A movie does NOT need to be high-budget to be a great film, and that is what Dani, as well as Alex, were aiming for in this product.
Certainly it is not the best movie in the world, but people under-sell it for a number of reasons, mainly the effects but there are others, which I will soon address.The DIALOGUE: First of all, nobody who worked on this film was excessively famous, not even very well known in fact.
The CONTENT: A lot of people complain about the great degree of blood and gore in this film, saying that it throws things off and is a sign for a lack of writing and directing skills.
As for the horror stories, they might of been my least favorite parts of the movie excluding the first one which used Dani Filth's presence a lot more then the others and probably the last one which had a kick-ass sound with music from Cradle Of Filth.My Overall Rating System Story: A- Acting: A Direction: A+ Visuals: A+ Overall Grade: A.
Great movie If u like gore ,low budget b movies,  humor , and cradle of filth this is a must see some parts could have been done better its like a series of stories and it all ties together in one evil plot of the MAN !!.
I think the whole movie could have been about it, of course with decent acting and effect and WITHOUT Dani Flth (is not even a good singer, and it is worse as a actor).The plot of the snuff-site is good and the conclusion of it is very obvious but still interesting.
I listen to them maybe once a year or so, but there are much more interesting black metal out there by far, and far more interesting artists.The movie is basically an anthology consisting of four segments linked together by a main story about a hypnotist serial killer occultist at a mental asylum, taking his revenge on the people responsible for his incarceration through occult means and with the help of the character played by Dani Filth.I was 19 when this movie came out and I watched it almost immediately.
Like the car was cut into the scene in some really weird way.I honestly don't see how you could expect more than a cheesy movie with a lot of gore and nudity from this one.
Filled with monsters, copious amounts of the red stuff, some nudity, a good pace and plenty of imagination, I was left feeling very impressed with this shot-on-video production from director Alex Chandon.Emily Booth appears in the first short-tale about a goth whose one-night-stand with the demonic Dani Filth proves a big mistake.
This film has bad acting, terrible special effects and an abysmal script - and I love it!
Poorly shot, very low budget, and more fake stuff than you can shake a stick at.(Not to mention,Dani wearing every ring he owns) However, it was obvious that the cast and crew had a great time making the movie and the story wasn't all that bad.
I spend much more time laughing (which is why I gave it a decent score.)If anyone wants to know what to expect, without giving the "story" away, it's almost like watching one of those reenactments on Unsolved Mysteries with much more blood, guts, and gore, of course.Did it remind anyone else of Tales From the Crypt or is it just me?.
The cast is pretty much a role call of people who no one outside of low budget British Horror films will recognise, which, naturally, can only be a good thing for selective cult audiences.
This is a film for the fans of black metal band Cradle Of Filth (like me) and for the horror/gore movies.
I suppose the band fans (or mostly) won't be disappointed by this film, but the gore fans will say that is somewhat a bad movie, well it really is not a "WOW" movie but more like a "oh" movie.
Never in a long time have I been scared while watching a movie until CRADLE OF FEAR.
I believe that this movie can be compared with the successful (known?) ones, like Bad Taste, and I am not saying this because I am a Cradle of Filth fan.It is worth a shot.
As more bodies pile up it seems that hypnotist & Satanist Kemper has been using demonic forces to murder the children of those that helped put him behind bars...This English production was written & directed by Alex Chandon & I simply can't believe some of the positive comments I have read about this seriously crap film, I think Cradle of Fear was trying to be an anthology horror film but the four individual stories suck & it's so badly made at times it becomes hard to watch.
Story number one involves a goth girl who has sex with the 'Man' played by Cradle of Fear front-man Dani Filth & then a mutant baby bursts out of stomach at the end & it's over, there's no story here & I wouldn't even call the ending a twist either just some random happening that ultimately means nothing except to have a gore effect.
At two hours long Cradle of Filth felt like it went on forever, the character's are poor, the dialogue is poor, the stories are poor, the twists are poor, the pacing is poor & the whole film is a real mess with nothing to recommend it.
Besides the amount of gore the only other thing going for Cradle of Fear is the presence of Emily Booth who I do like & even though she overacts she at least does try to act.
A grab at the throat, and blood spits out, but oh my, it looks like there's a juice packet filled with fake blood in the man's shirt.To you Cradle Of Filth fans: You'll hear two songs throughout the movie, but with the camera angles and shoddy filming, they drag the overall pleasure of the song DOWN.My final comment: Steer well away from it.
Look like they put an add in the newspaper for get the actors (?) working on that film or it was schoolmates trying to make a movie together.
I like slasher, gore and horror but that movie was not even entertaining enough for keep me laughing.
The only people that I think would watch a film like this are.....
The special effects have a lot to be desired, but this is due to the fact the film was on a major low budget, in which they used syrup for blood in a few scenes.
Even though I'm not particularly a cradle of filth music fan or a Goth, there is no reason why you would not enjoy it, especially if you like a little nonsensical violence and blood..