Personally I can't comprehend why, but the infamous and horribly untalented splatter directors from Germany – Andreas Schnaas, Olaf Ittenbach and Jörg Buttgereit – somehow dispose of a large fan base and apparently they even built school! Timo Rose, for instance, is clearly an avid follower of Schnaas with an equally grotesque obsession for nauseating gore, but he's sadly also equally amateurish and blundering. "Barricade" is as good as unwatchable, with extremely poor camera- work and editing. There isn't anything that even remotely resembles a plot and whenever there isn't any gore and bloodshed on display, the film is dreadfully boring. Actually, the film is dreadfully boring even when there is gore and bloodshed on display. The dumb and uninspired story shamelessly imitates great genre classics, such as "The Hills have Eyes", and revolves on a cannibalistic family living in Germany's Black Forest and feasting on backpackers and idiotic passers-by. The cast members are presumably just Timo Rose's drinking buddies and they can't properly articulate, whether it's in English or German. Since the release of "Barricade", our director already saw his childhood dreams come true – probably – because he co-directed the third sequel in Andreas Schnaas' atrocious "Violent S***" franchise.
