The Hive

2014

Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 54% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 54% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.1/10 10 2292 2.3K

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Plot summary

An amnesiac must reach back into his mind for memories that will help him save the love of his life before a virus completely takes over.

Director

David Yarovesky Photo
David Yarovesky

Top cast

Madelaine Petsch Photo
Madelaine Petsch as Current Girl #2
Sonya Eddy Photo
Sonya Eddy as Nurse
Gabriel Basso Photo
Gabriel Basso as Adam
Stephen Blackehart Photo
Stephen Blackehart as Soldier #1
720p.WEB
858.74 MB
1280*572
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 33 min
Seeds 6

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by dminton-46830 6 / 10

Actually, quite good

For being an isolated out of the way minimal actors movie.It was really well thought out and well done and tied together. Not something that happens in a lot of movies.Ok,the black barf isn't all that great. But the idea & execution of it. I'd like to know who that was to was more
Reviewed by getconedproductions09 6 / 10

The Hive-a Jackson Pollock painting on caffeine IV

The Hive Directed by David Yarovesky. Written by David Yarovesky and Will HonleySometimes Fathom events will have a one night only screening of some independent movie usually of the horror variety. These movies have fascinated me every time I see them. I wonder how they get picked. What makes Primal Rage, The Hive and The Final Wish eligible for inclusion? Fathom events are usually special events and therefore cost more than an average movie. Very few people would take a chance like that. So naturally my curiosity is piqued.So what makes The Hive, a little low budget movie about a virus that turns people into mindless black tar spewing monsters infecting a summer camp, eligible for inclusion for the Fathom events? I think it being produced by Nerdist might have something to do with it. They haven't produced a movie before or haven't produced a movie since. It is an interesting idea for a horror movie. A virus that forces people in the grisly way possible to be connected all at once. They can see what the others see, they can feel what they feel and you find out exactly how they use that and you can recall memories from the others infected. Visually this movie is like a Jackson Pollock painting riddled with caffeine pills on an empty stomach. It uses black light to a good effect. It uses the black blood and the gnarly veins to good effect. The color scheme to the movie makes it stand out among other low budget horror movies. It looks visually stunning. It doesn't look cheap. That's the big difference between something like this and Scream Park. Scream Park was not able to utlitize what it had to make things more cinematic. The Hive is able to do that.The effects as mentioned are terrific. It's gruesome but unappealing. The color scheme works well with making things stand out and capture your attention. I was on board with the hive mind lunacy. The thing I felt lacked and brought this movie down some was the relationship between the protagonist and his best friend and love interest. I'm sure they have names but I can't remember them. The hero is a womanizing douchebag bedding down as many of the girls in camp as he possibly can. He tries these very same tricks with Jessie(I think that is her name but honestly I have no clue). She shuts him down because she knows all about the way he operates. He tries to profess his love. She is having none of this. We now have our character arc. Of course his best friend has feelings for a girl who his friend beds. He takes this personally. We have this soap opera bit going on amongst the disease and grue. It doesn't work. The music is telling me that it should work but it simply doesn't.This is not a bad film. It is enjoyable and I dug what it was trying to do. It is not scary. It tries to be with its jump scares. It is visually insane and it makes up for its low budget with its camera work and great make up work. I give this movie a B.
Reviewed by paul_haakonsen 4 / 10

The movie had potential, but ended up as a less than mediocre result...

Right, well I gave "The Hive" a chance without knowing what it was, aside from it being a horror movie and having an interesting movie cover.Turns out that director David Yarovesky didn't really tickle me in the right places with this 2014 movie. It was watchable for sure, but it was hardly an entertaining movie or a movie that I felt myself delving into as things progressed on the screen.I will say that the special effects and the atmosphere portrayed and used in the movie were good, and they carried the movie quite the distance, because the movie was suffering from an inadequate script and plot.The acting in the movie was fairly adequate, taking into consideration the anchor the actors and actresses had around their feet in terms of a lack of proper storyline and script. I enjoy watching a movie where the performers are unfamiliar faces, so that at least worked in favor of the movie.I managed to sit through "The Hive" to the end, but I can't claim to have been thoroughly entertained by what I was watching. The movie is definitely watchable, but not an outstanding movie in the horror genre.For me, at least, "The Hive" is a movie that came and went without leaving a dent or impression in anything. Actually so much that it wasn't before 5 years later after the movie was released that I came to know about it - and that was by sheer random luck. This is not a movie that warrants a second viewing by any means, because the movie just lacked the contents to support that.
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