PROS: This indie film took me by surprise. I quite enjoyed how detailed the plot was. It was simple but it was also stable. This set up a very nice movie. The whole Idea of people doing what they can to survive in a very basic game is quite cliché, but also very dynamic. What I most appreciated about this movie was the ending. Not often do you wind up watching a mediocre movie with a great ending, but this ending was very well thought out. It connected to the rest of the film while still being very open ended. It went together quite seamlessly. Another good part of the film was the acting. It was a large cast in an indie film, but that being said it still felt genuine which was nice.CONS: The one issue I had was the build up of tension. I talk about this a lot, because it is very important, but the build up of tension is what makes or brakes a film. This movie felt like it dragged a lot. Certain scenes were too long, and others were too short. This made the film unbalanced and it made it also feel very slow.www.chorror.com

"The Human Race" (2013) isn't really the under-recognized gem that I was led to believe it was — it's actually mediocre in some ways. 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. And while several contenders make heroic choices, several others take a sociopathic glee in eliminating their opponents. Writer-director Paul Hough might be terrible at writing dialogue, but he does know how to craft a surreal horror story with some horrific and unexpected turns. (Yeesh.)There is also a standout performance by Trista Robinson as a secondary character. (She is the more tenacious half of a deaf couple who are teleported and forced to compete.) In a film with little admirable acting, she still plays her role with skill and intensity. This is a talented actress.All in all, this is a flawed low-budget film that is still decent fare for a horror fan. I'd rate it a 7 out of 10.

Been into independent film lately and when I heard of this one I needed to see it right away. I was not disappointed. I can honestly say I loved every second of it. I am not necessarily a sci-fi fan, there are only a couple that I am a huge fan of, but now The Human Race is making that list as well. Great concept, exciting, characters I like, I was thinking about this movie a lot after I had seen it.I won't spoil anything for anyone, but if you like exciting movies with unique concepts and actors that you aren't sick to death of looking at like Tom Cruise, then this movie is for you. I do hope there are more independent movies made like this. Anyone can tell that love and time went into this project. I kind of wish I could bring friends over to my house to see it, but my friends suck so I know they won't. I hope more people spread the word.

Have you seen 'Scanners?' Did you like the bit when the head explodes? 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). However, what little 'story' there is when brains aren't flying towards the camera, concerns a seemingly random group of people who get spirited away from their everyday lives, only to find themselves part of a twisted and lethal game where they have to race each other... or their heads explode.Think 'Battle Royale' or 'The Cube.' It's kind of like that (only with more exploding heads).And, believe it or not, it's actually quite good. Yes, there isn't much of a budget; what little money went into making this film was primarily spent on blood flying from holes in people's necks. Naturally, they couldn't afford and big names either, but it's still quite a fun little sci-fi/survival-horror film to watch. Any negative criticism that it seems to have attracted centres around a 'lack of story.' Yes, there's not much of a story, but there was there much of a story in Battle Royale? 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... keep off the grass.http://thewrongtreemoviereviews.blogspot.co.uk/