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Megan is a
burnt-out cop who's just had a really bad
meltdown. A serial killer is on the loose, killing
and raping young girls whose initials are the same
letter and Megan is haunted by their spirits. Now,
two years later, Megan is back on the squad to hunt
the killer down once and for all. But will she succeed?
The Alphabet Killer. The long-awaited horror flick
from Wrong Turn director, Rob Schmidt, is finally
here. And it's DTV! Originally scheduled for a
theatrical release, The Alphabet Killer reeks DTV-material
so badly that it wouldn't even fit After Dark's
Horrorfest. It's a disappointment that's for sure.
At least we have the very talented Eliza Dushku in it
to set things straight right? WRONG! So wrong. Eliza
gives us her worst performance to date here and it's
easy to tell that the character that she was playing
was way too complex for her. It doesn't help that
the character isn't very likeable either. Who thought
that having the starring character be a lunatic would
be a good idea?
This isn't your ordinary serial killer-thriller. In
fact there's nothing ordinary about this movie at
all. Two years ago Megan had a meltdown and was put
on drugs and was forced to see a therapist. Now
she's back working as a cop and the case that once
made her go insane is still not solved. It doesn't
take long before Megan starts seeing the dark, glowing
spirits of the victims (they look awfully similar
to the ones in Pulse 2 and 3). Could she be going
insane or do the spirits want her to crack the puzzle?
Now I'm all for a supernatural thriller but what
did the spirits have to do with anything? I don't
get it. And why did they choose her? Why would they
choose someone who was kind of mentally unstable
to begin with? It doesn't make any sense.
The rest of the movie plays like any other serial
killer-thriller really and it's not very interesting.
It tries to be clever but fails at being so and ends
up feeling generic and shallow. I can understand
that Rob Schmidt wanted to do something a little
more sophisticated but Alphabet Killer ends up feeling
about as original as Waz (aka The Killing Gene). It
wants to be something more than it is and it's not.
It feels like we've seen this on late-night television
several times before and it's certainly understandable
why this was dumped straight to DVD.
Of course there are some good things as well such as
the... ehmm... well considering the production values
of the movie there really aren't many good things
to find. I guess it's watchable as long as you don't
mind your intelligence being insulted, just don't
expect anything as brilliant as Wrong Turn. Clearly
Rob Schmidt made a wrong turn when he decided to
take on this project.
No.
Nothing special.
It's not good. It's not good at all. It's a mediocre
supernatural serial killer-thriller at best. It's
better than Ulli Lommel's crap but it's certainly
not worth checking out if you ask me. Too generic,
we've seen it so many times before.
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