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A band goes to an abandoned house in the woods to
record a video for their
latest track. But the house is
only abandoned to the surface, there's still
something
hiding in the house, waiting to slaughter new victims,
and it's
not human. As the band members have to fight
against both nightmares and
real terrors, the band
gets smaller and smaller.
There seems to be many independent horrormovies
that can't find distribution
these days and while this
movie isn't all that bad, I would still never
purchase
the rights for it if I owned a video company. The
story is quite
original and the idea was really good.
What sabotages this flick completely
is the fact
that it's confusing since you never know if it's a
dream or
if it's reality and we never really get to
know all of the band members.
While I can overlook the confusing scenes and
sometimes sloppy script,
I cannot overlook the
terrible acting. I don't think I have ever seen
a cast that were so completely off in their parts.
It seemed as if the
actors were just reading their
sentences directly from cue cards. There is
no melody in the acting and all dialogues feel
forced and uninspired.
This goes especially for the
two girls in the movie, the red haired girl
seems
as if she's really bored during the entire shoot of
the movie since
she practically mumbles out her
cues in a tired and bored way.
The directing is the only thing really good about the
movie and there's
actually one really cool scene in this
movie and I think that was the
scene that gave this
movie any stars at all. It's where a guy goes down
the basement and he sees all of his friends down
there and when one turns
around it's
one of those monster ghosts.
I'm surprised that I made it past 13 seconds into this
movie as it is a
snooze pill. What makes me a bit
annoyed is that if the acting would have
been
better this could actually have been a pretty good
movie. Still,
it does need something to remove the
lowbudget, independent feeling that
surrounds it.
The box art doesn't exactly help to remove that feeling
as
it looks as if it was made with the old classic Windows
Paint program.
I do have faith in Rainstorm Productions
that released this film though
cause if they only
hired better actors they might be able to release
some high quality horrormovies in the future.
Best of luck to them.
One gets an... ummm... arm through the stomach,
very gory but looks like
something that Schnaas
would have made in his early days. One gets folded
in half, and that sounds gorier than what it was. One
gets a sharp object
impaled through the chest,
gore fans will have enough to get around.
All we really get here is some uncreative piano
music. Pretty bad.
I have to confess that I thought that this movie would
be a lot better
than what it was since I had read a lot
of positive stuff about this
movie. But I think that many
sites are nicer to independent horror movies
than to
regular horrormovies, well, I'm not, I judge only by how
good
it is, not how good it was because of the budget.
I don't think that
budget has anything to do with how good
a movie is. You can make the
most excellent horrormovie
with an 8mm camera according to me, all you
need is a good idea and a good cast.
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