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  Review by Sofa Sinema ★★½

  Wasn't expecting to start the day off with an Alan Smithee joint, but there you have it. Terrible title and every alternative that folks have mentioned in Letterboxd reviews were better choices. Bill Moseley is just a fantastic genre actor and he's chewing the fat well here. You'd think it would just stick to a simple slasher mode about demented killers posing as paramedics. Spoiler: It doesn't.

  I did like how the mother endorses the slutification of her daughter. She agrees to breast augmentation and a mean girl makeover in one of the many humorous subplots that made this watchable. Lloyd Kaufman also makes a cameo to little consequence. You're probably going to see this eventually if you're a B movie mark and I won't try hard to stop you.

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  Review by bree1981 ★ 3

  Released in the U.K. under the title Death Call and coming with the tagline 'Like Jaw's on the interstate' on the DVD cover, this is a poor attempt at a slasher film directed by the ever elusive Alan Smithee.
  Two teenage brothers grow up watching their paramedic Dad use the cover of his job to sexually assault the victim's of road accidents, cut to 30 odd years later and the brothers, now played by horror legends Kane Hodder and Bill Moseley. like to use there Dad's old ambulance to pose as paramedics and rape and murder their already injured victims. The set up to the film is ok but then we spend way too long getting to know the annoying…

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  Review by Jayson Kennedy ★★ 1

  Alan Smithee gives early warning. Bill Moseley and Kane Hodder as junkers posing as paramedics hunt "teenagers" responsible for the hit-and-run of their mother. Loads of CW drama follow a girl, before abruptly switching focus to another, between a handful of sequences with the veteran pair. Moseley gets opportunities to emote while his screen brother remains mute. Flashbacks to their childhood don't add much beside explaining why Hodder wears a face mask. In odd aesthetic choices, the picture has a gaussian blur and slant toward the bottom left giving everyone long faces. Director Christian Winters is nowhere in the extras but a producer's commentary laughs over the Smithee credit. Shame, even if Winters's intentions were bad that's preferable to what's still mediocre. Watched via Epic Pictures's DVD.

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  Review by Mr. DuLac ★

  Don't worry, I'm a paramedic.
  -Darryl

  If you're movie has Bill Moseley and Kane Hodder as a couple of serial killer brothers that masquerade as paramedics to find victims, you should really center the movie on them and not the idiotic teens that are just fodder anyways.

  You spend most of the film with the teens and you'll want them to all die within 30 seconds of meeting them. Even the heroine is completely unlikeable which would have been fine if you didn't spend half the film waiting for Moseley and Hodder to show up, but instead you're forced to spend quality time with these douchebags until the brothers show up to put them out of their misery.

  The back story of the killers is far more interesting then anything these wannabe Abercrombie & Fitch models do in the entire film. More Moseley and Hodder could have possibly saved this.

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  Review by Steve Hinkle ★

  WARNING: this movie contains extreme leg wound fingering that’s finger lickin’ gross. 

  Old 37 was a jumbled mess with a bunch of pointless, unnecessary and questionable side plots happening all around. It’s a movie that has way too many automobile accidents in a town that obviously has the worst drivers in the world. It’s a whole bunch of crazy and doesn’t know what it wants to be. It felt like I Know What You Did Last Summer meets Mean Girls, when all I wanted was some Texas Chainsaw Massacre action. I was scratching my head all through out. A high school girl who hates all the popular girls, decides to get a boob job, so she can get the popular…

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  Review by Kevin Cormier ★★

  I had hoped for better things with this one. 
  Kane Hodder and Bill Moseley star as two murderous psychos driving an ambulance in order to torture and kill people in need of help. 
  Sounds great, but the story surrounding it is kind of weak.  Plenty of gore and Moseley is great, but that’s about the extent of it.

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  Review by Grimbo ★ 5

  AKA Ambulance 37 AKA Death Call

  I only really wanted to see this cos it has Kane Hodder in it and I'm a fan, but he spends his time behind a mask and doesn't say a word (yes, a really dumb complaint to have about him!!).

  It involves two brothers who drive an ambulance but kill the people they are called out for, but that doesn't matter as the ambulance gimmick barely gets used.

  There is a really dumb part when the main girls mum (who looks like her sister or best pal) introduces her man friend. At that point I kinda gave up on it.

  All the soundtrack kept going from quiet when folk were talking to really fucking loud when it played some teen pop music every 4 minutes.

  I had been warned about this and I didn't heed the warning and it was crap though never boring.

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  Review by Cropsy ★

  "Alan Smithee" would be embarrassed to be attached to this trash.

  Yup this movie sucks. Didn't know if this was a teen drama or a torture porn. The core group of teens were by far one of the worst I've ever seen in a horror film. 75% of the score was shitty indie rock songs. This movie made me sad.

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  Review by M@ 1

  Old 37 is fun. Not for the right reasons always- you're sort of stuck with these unlikeable murdering teens, seeing them be dumb and do dumb stuff-

  Meanwhile there is a super interesting story in these two messed up brothers played by Kane Hodder and Bill Moseley. Let's just focus on them and their upbringing for the whole film. Their Dad was a fake paramedic or at least a real twisted one.. and they turn out the same way!

  It's interesting and compelling enough to watch and when Hodder and Moseley are on screen, it's a pretty solid time all around and they give good performances, of course.
  I will say the music supervision, picking all these choices for pop…

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  Review by Bear ★★★

  A gory teen slasher with Moseley and Hodder as the respective brains and brawn of a two-man killing crew. The story is split confusingly with not-quite-randomly inserted flashbacks and circuitous storytelling that occasionally delivers a nice surprise or minor twist, more often just made me go "wait, is this in this past? which blonde girl and prettyboy is this?". Some of the side plots are downright strange, what the fuck was the boob job subplot? Characters routinely making baffling decisions. BUT, there's kind of a bit of wild energy going on, you really never know quite what to expect and the blood keeps comin', and our poster boys do a fine job, consummate professionals.
  It's pretty music-forward and I didn't…

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  Review by Sarah Collins ★

  Films that take long to do annoy me but again there's reasons for that and I think the reason was is, people must have thought it was shit? They were right of course though cause it is, a few years ago this did sound good to me when I read about it but now, just disappointing.

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  Review by darksyde ½

  A piss poor, terrible excuse for a movie, not even Bill Moseley and Kane Hodder could save this piece of shit.
  There's an obvious reason why Hodder had played a silent, hockey mask wearing mass murderer for most of his career. For as big of a fan of his as I might be, I have to say the dude just can't act. He's about as wooden as they come. (For evidence of this, check out the few speaking roles he's had when he's appeared in cameos for other films). And surprise, surprise. He plays a pretty much silent, mask wearing psycho in this.
  The story isn't bad, but its also something we've already seen done half a million times in better movies. The dialogue, however, is pretty fucking bad. Moseley tries, but it just isn't good enough to save this.