Barricade

Just another lame film about a family of cannibals taking on a group of 'normals.' What is with the fascination with cannibals? And why are the cannibals, usually inbred morons, able to outwit people whose brains actually work? And why, do they always eat the nubile women who could give them unmutated children? If they are inbred morons, how can they understand weapons and such? This is just another one for the junk pile, along with silly films like the entire Wrong Turn series. Just another excuse for torture porn like the terrible Hostel films. Unless one is a total cannibal fan, skip this and save 125 minutes of your life. By the way, the directing, acting and sfx are fairly bad.

barricade is the kind of movie i bet most typical movie fans will not like. its a bunch of really gory scenes with a small plot in-between. the story has a guy who is trying to tell the girl of his dreams that he cares about her on a camping trip in Germany but before he can do it a family of weird mutants attack them. it is a lot like wrong turn and the hills have eyes like other people have said but it is obviously made for really cheap.

everyone who wants buffy the vampire slayer should find another movie but if you're a horror fan and you like really gory movies, then maybe barricade is for you. i actually like it a lot. it is demented and sick and all the things i like to have in my horror movies. the acting is not great, but it is still pretty good. the way it is filmed is cool and doesn't feel like a normal direct to video movie.

i would give it two thumbs up, but like i said if you're a fan of normal movies, you probably will not like it.

Barricade is part of the "German ultra-gore",a complete genre on its own. Back in the 80s, Schnaass, Ittembach and Buttgereit were the founders of this "genre" and now Timo Rose is here to bring a good update on the genre, with more production values and better cinematography but with the same amount of insane violence and blood. Barricade is basically a "torture movie", people captured and mutilated. Not really a big plot, but very good gore FX is what you can expect from this one. I enjoyed it but it lacks in the plot department, and some "camp" moments would help also. I still have Zombie Doom and Premutos in the top of the German ultra gore genre, but Barricade,is near, also. Good photography(but i didn't like the "8 mm picture" FX and the MTV-style editing that were there quite a lot), good FX and lots of gore and blood. 7/10, recommended for the gore-hounds

It is always hard to find any gore flicks that really have a story to tell or have real actors. I immediately became aware that this one was made with great love and with a real budget. The editing is great, performances are good and the gore is convincing. The storyline is of course a typical one, don't go in the woods. It reminded me more towards Wrong Turn then The Hills Have Eyes. Wereas The Hills have deformed people here we only have predators like in Wrong Turn. The movie never slows down. From the start it really gets you going with the gory slaughtering of some Germans, I noticed some friends of Timo that I met a few years ago at a convention. What's really well done is the editing that really made the gore look like it's real and not the gore that makes you laugh. A nice movie even if you aren't a gore freak.

I was not completely blown away by Barricade but I thought it was definitely a fun, gore-filled movie. I just read a negative review and it was obviously written by someone who does not watch or appreciate no budget movies. This movie is not Hostel. It is not The Hills Have Eyes. It looks like they shot it for a few thousand dollars. But there is nothing wrong with that - as long as you know that is what you're getting.

The acting is stiff at times and the plot is rather thin, but the real reason anyone should be watching this movie is for the amazing, nasty gore. Much like Andreas Schnaas' Violent Sh*t movies or Olaf Ittenbach's Premutos, the goal here is to show as much splatter as humanly possible on a shoestring budget... and in this regard, I think Barricade's filmmakers and FX artists definitely succeed.

Timo Rose is a talented director and I look forward to seeing more of his movies in the future. I hope he continues getting releases outside of Germany. This is the first movie I have seen of his in Spain. Although his editing sometimes went a little over-the-top in Barricade, it hints at an untapped talent that a larger budget might be able to bring forth.

Also, I was not a fan of the hip hop music in the movie. It was good music - but it did not fit the scenes very well. The other music was all very good, though.

All together, I'd definitely recommend this movie to anyone who wanted to see a lot of gore done of a tiny budget. If you like big budget Hollywood horror films or you need a strong plot, then don't bother. But if you're like me, you'll have a really good time with it.

7 out of 10