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Debbie is
a spoiled teenage girl who's quit school and
refuses to get a job. Her parents are starting to get
fed up with her attitude and when they find out that
she's a lesbian, it seems as if things couldn't get any
worse. Well it can, and it does when three dangerous
criminals decide to seek shelter inside their house
for a couple of days. But the thugs have no idea who's
living in the attic...
Anchor Bay usually picks up good indie horror movies,
or at least good-looking ones, but Aunt Rose was
neither. This tacky low-budget "horror" flick doesn't
know whether it wants to be a poor "Last House on The
Left"-copy or a bad zombie movie, and ends up being a
little bit of both. As you can probably figure out,
the result is anything but impressive.
The movie takes ages before it finally reaches the
main plot which is basically about three dangerous
criminals holding a family hostage in their own home.
They threaten to rape them and kill them slowly and
all but they never really do anything that brutal
to them. Anyway, so who's Aunt Rose you ask. She's
this crippled woman who apparently saves Debbie's life
when she was four years old. It doesn't take a genius
to figure out that Rose is some kind of witch. She
doesn't have a very big role in the movie though and
doesn't get to do her stuff until the very ending.
Everything from the atrocious acting to the horrible
directing was just a complete mess. The actors
desperately try to evoke fear by stuttering their
dialogues, which naturally doesn't work at all (what,
are we in the fifth grade?). And the entire goal of
the movie, as I had understood it anyway, got lost in
the bizarre ending. Spoilers ahead people; I thought
that the goal of the movie was to make Debbie appreciate
the people around her more, but that goal was never
achieved, so she comes into the movie and exits the
movie as a spoiled brat that you couldn't care less about.
While I did enjoying the amusing eye-contacts (I bet
the actors thought that they looked really cool in
them - while really they looked ridiculous), there
wasn't a whole lot of entertainment to find in Aunt
Rose. It's a poorly scripted, and overall, really dull
horror thriller which just didn't do it for me.
A slit throat and some more, nothing special.
Very mellow music, didn't really feel suitable for the
topic. It was actually pretty cheesy when I think of it.
Silly "Last House"-wannabe which doesn't feel a whole
lot like a horror movie until the final ten minutes.
We've been through this story way too many times before
and in much more interesting versions so don't spend
your time on this cheap DTV flick.
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