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Five friends head up to an abandoned house where a
young boy brutally killed his parents twenty years
ago to find out if there's any truth to the myth about
the house being haunted. As soon as they get to the
house, the two girls, who by the way are lesbians,
decide to take a hike in the woods while the three
boys stay at the house setting up their equipment.
It doesn't take long before the old house starts making
noises and the three boys get all paranoid. The two
unknowing girls return to the house only to find
themselves in a situation they could never imagine
even in their worst nightmares.
My feelings towards this movie are very mixed. Some
parts of the movie are simply terrible, if not even
abysmal but most of the movie is, well, I wouldn't
say brilliant, but not far from it. See, the chase
scenes in the movie are some of the best chase scenes
in horror movie history (which by the way was the
thing that made me give it such a high rating). The
story never gets dull and the movie, which I thought
would be along the lines of Wrong Turn, turned out
to be... well... have you ever seen the movie Deadly
Dreams, the 80's slasher flick where a guy wearing a
fox mask goes around killing people? Well, it's a
little bit like that.
However, the bad things about the movie was that the
actors seemed to have very little experience as they
all overacted a bit too much. But that I saw past
pretty easily, the camerawork however is something
that I could not see past. The camera often moves in
a jumpy and simply unprofessional way. There was one
time in the movie that they had used the exact same
camera effect where it shows the students in front of
the house three times in a row and that was not well
received by me. The lighting was also very bad as
there were many times that you wished to see more
than you did. Instead, it got that Blair Witch feeling
which really didn't work here as it was still obvious
that they were going for the high budget look.
The title Evil Remains leaves a lot to the imagination
and I really did prefer the original title, Trespassing
as that's what the movie's really about. Five students
trespassing on property and get offed by an unknown
killer wearing a dog mask (hehe, yep, you heard me
right). I know many of you may wonder why I gave this
such a good rating. Well, let me put it this way,
when was the last time you saw a dtv movie that was
not only suspenseful and scary but also had the same
qualities as a theatrical flick? This phenomenon
doesn't happen very often and when it does, it makes
me want to continue watching DTV horror flicks even
if I know that most of them are bad. So with some
killer chase scenes and some very cool murders and
with a very suspenseful story, I'm proud to be able
to say that I dug the hell out of this flick. Cut
this one some slack and give it a try (despite the
truly horrible re-titling).
We get a gory impalement, a couple of throat slits
and a guy gets a bunch of nails through his stomach.
Could have used a little more gore but satisfying
enough anyway.
Nothing special really. What you can expect from a
suspenseful slasher.
Evil Remains definitely has its flaws but the
suspense and the chase scenes made me love it
anyway. Even if this wasn't really much like Wrong
Turn, I still think that fans of that movie will
be able to enjoy this one as well as it has the
same atmosphere surrounding it. Give it a try.
Review By: AnthroFred
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