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Dr. Samantha Goodman is a hard working psychiatrist
who has a fatal brain tumour. Luckily for her, she
has a very warm and understanding husband who loves
her dearly and a sister who will always be there for
her. At least until one day when one of Samantha's
patients escape and force Samantha and the two people
that are closest to her to play sick games.
The Dark Hours has gotten a lot of great reviews on
the net over the past couple of months and while
I do enjoy the occasional psychological torture
thriller a la Misery, I didn't think that this was
at all as original as some critics make it out to
be. I mean, sure there are a bunch of twists in it
that are quite unpredictable, but also pretty damn
stupid. It's almost like they threw in a bunch of
twists just for the heck of it since most of them
really didn't make all that much sense.
While The Dark Hours is a pretty good flick with
great photography and some really good acting, the
story struggles a bit too much at times and it never
really becomes as disturbing as they clearly wanted
it to be. When we get to see a person tear of their
finger at the end of the movie, it basically just
feels a bit pathetic. I just don't like it when
movies try to hard to be shocking as they usually
just turn out to be pretty silly (Murder-Set-Pieces
is a perfect example of this).
This is far from a bad movie though. The Dark Hours
is very well executed and it never becomes very
slow-paced. It is barely an hour long though so
one wouldn't expect it to become slow-paced at any
time. Maybe I've just seen too many of these movies
by now. It's just not very shocking anymore. They
can try to copy "Last House On The Left" a billion
times, but they will never be able to make it better
and more disturbing than that movie.
We get a nail in ones ear, an axe in ones back,
and a finger torn off. It does have some descent
gore but it's not exactly a gore fest.
There is very little music in here at all actually
but the silence is a very good soundtrack for this
flick and manages to keep the atmosphere.
I don't care what all the other critics say, I just
wasn't that impressed with this movie. It was
unoriginal, it tried too hard to be shocking and
it had too many stupid twists in it. It's an
entertaining movie, but according to me, this is
also a very forgettable one.
Review By: AnthroFred
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