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Ben is
unhappy with his current job and a client of
his recommends a headhunter named Sarah. She quickly
finds a job for him with great pay and the only
catch is that it's a night job. At first everything
seems all right but soon enough strange things
start occurring at Ben's new work. Is his mind playing
tricks on him or is the building in fact haunted?
On the back of the UK DVD sleeve for this movie, it
says that it's a supernatural thriller in the
tradition of The Ring and The Shining. Well I just
couldn't see the connection between these movies.
Headhunter is a cheesy horror flick with a very
unoriginal story, but just because a man runs
around with an axe for 5 seconds at the end of the
movie, it doesn't mean that it's reminiscent to
The Shining (and where they got The Ring from is
just beyond me).
The story revolves around Ben Caruso who wants to
get ahead in the business world. He hires Sarah
Tierney, a corporate headhunter, to find him a
better job. She quickly finds him a job... but in
a haunted building. So for most of the movie we
get to follow Ben as he tries to find out who Sarah
really is (oh maybe that's where The Ring comes in).
Either way, it turns out that Sarah died ten years
ago (now there's a twist we haven't seen before) and
that her head has yet to be found. You can probably
tell by now that this isn't a great movie.
Headhunter does have its qualities though. The
acting isn't good but it could have been worse, the
few gore scenes we got were actually pretty well-
made and even though the story is really clichéd,
I never even thought about pushing the stop button
on my remote. It really wants to be a good movie
but I think that they were a bit too ambitious
when they made it. The script is far from water-proof
and the whole thing just reeks "we only made this
to fund our next movie".
In the end, this was just another very forgettable
DTV horror flick. It has its moments but it never
gets scary or creepy. Furthermore, the story is just
too old and we've seen it before in better movies.
In fact, it kind of reminded me of the poor ghost
movies that are coming out from Hong Kong these days.
No need to check this one out.
We get a hand chopped off and a pretty cool
decapitation. The gore helped.
The same old stuff. I wish that indie producers would
dare to do something different for once and not just
stick to the same old stuff we've heard so many
times before. It's a bit too generic.
This would probably have worked better five years ago
or so but today, the movie just felt like a cheap
mixture between recent theatrical horror movies (and
not the ones mentioned on the cover). Whatever they
were going for here, they clearly missed the mark
and that left us with another mediocre DTV horror flick.
Don't waste your time on this one.
Review By: AnthroFred
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