This movie is terrible. It appears
that the recent streak of good horror movies Hollywood's been
producing has finally come to an end, and we've gotten one of the
biggest stinkers I've seen in quite some time. It doesn't even feel
professionally made.
I imagine this is the kind of film
you'd get if Tommy Wiseau directed a movie, while working with a
script written by someone else. The story mostly makes sense, but
the scenes lack build-up, and often seem to begin or end with no
rhyme or reason. I suspect at some point this was supposed to be a
Found Footage movie, because we periodically jump to the POV of
various cameras, but without the Found Footage aspect this is simply
a distraction.
I don't want to give the impression
that I dislike director Mark Neveldine. I enjoyed both Crank
and Gamer as stupid
fun. However, both of those films were based around constant action,
and I suspect that's what left him so unable to craft suspense or
build-up effectively: they're not elements he's used to using.
The actors really
don't help the situation. They're not bad actors, but I never got
the impression that any of them particularly cared about this
project, and they usually look downright bored. Even Djimon Hounsou
can't make his scenes fun.
The movie revolves
around a girl stuck in a conflict between her over-protective
Catholic father and her non-religious live-in boyfriend. The two
most important men in her life don't get along, and have wildly
different values. Then, she cuts her finger and it gets infected.
Then she becomes possessed, which may or may not be related to her
finger. It speaks poorly of the movie that reading back over my own
plot-summary was somehow more frightening than watching the events
unfold in the movie.
I don't recommend
this movie, at all. I cannot imagine anyone enjoying it, and even
ironically there's nothing that jumps out at you as funny. For the
love of God if you're thinking of seeing this, just see TheGallows a second time.
Totally agree.
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