Okay, well I was lured in to watching "Chicago Rot" given its rather interesting cover. Sure, I hadn't even heard about this 2016 movie prior to now in 2021, as I had the chance to watch it. But it's average rating on IMDb had to mean that it couldn't be all bad.

But it was.

Oh, boy, this movie was a swing and a miss. The storyline was so unfathomably slow paced and pointless. Needless to say that the characters in the movie were equally pointless, and at no point throughout the movie did I actually care an ounce about the characters. It was just so mundane and bland, that there was no reason to bother.

The acting in the movie was adequate for the most parts, at least I will give the movie that much. But without an interesting storyline or anything of worth to offer the audience, then "Chicago Rot" was just a losing battle.

This is definitely not a movie that I would recommend you wasting your time, money or effort on. Some of us did, so you don't have to.

My rating of writers Brant McCrea and Dorian Weinzimmer's 2016 movie lands on a more than generous three out of ten stars, based almost exclusively on the movie's production value. If you enjoy horror movies, do yourself a favor and find something with entertainment worth to it, because "Chicago Rot" is not one such movie.

CHICAGO ROT is a gritty horror film made on a micro budget. It's a revenge story about a former convict hunting for a sicko murderer responsible for the death of his family. As a film it's fairly well shot, so it's just a shame that the subject matter is equal parts distasteful and equal parts predictable. The end result offers plenty of gloomy atmosphere and some unpalatable moments of extreme bad taste gore.

Seriously folks. How more obvious can some of these fake reviewers be? If you click on the 3 main culprits (all have similar IMDb usernames) who wrote SUPER positive reviews, you will see that each of them have all recently joined IMDb and they all HAVE ONLY EACH REVIEWED ONE MOVIE. This one. Right. Nice try.

So obviously the rating here is way over-inflated through fake ratings of people who are involved with this terrible film in one way or another. The film is trash. I had an extremely hard time trying to sit through the horrible acting, the retarded dialogue, and the ridiculous attempt to be over-the-top gory. I love good indie films of any genre, but I don't have much tolerance for the dishonorable and dishonest methods of boosting reviews and ratings.

Movies that try too hard to be weird without any substance don't win. Should I even mention the absolutely terrible soundtrack that doesn't fit the pacing of the movie? Or the ridiculously bad music video that starts the movie and seems to interject itself in the middle with a random girl playing piano in the back of a truck? No, no I'll let you torture yourself with this tripe.