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Yen and her friends go to find Yen's brother who disappeared
mysteriously a couple of days ago. They find out that he was
going to the abandoned amusement park so they decide to head
there to look for traces of him. The park was shut down ten
years ago when a girl tragically fell off the Ferris wheel.
Well, Yen is back at the amusement park that she and her
brother visited many years ago, and so is the little girl,
and she also brought her friends...
This was different... By looking at the poster for The Park
you get the impression that this will be another one of
those Ringu spin-offs but it really isn't. This is some
kind of weird mixture between a ghost and a zombie movie
and I didn't like the new concept at all. The first thirty
minutes or so are a total waste of time actually but when
the movie finally gets going it actually becomes quite
interesting. Unfortunately there are too many elements
bringing this movie down.
The girl playing Yen does quite a good job but I think
that they should have casted someone else for the part
as Yen since this girl had no idea how to scream, cry
or look scared for that matter. I loved one sentence that
they had fed her, it was supposed to be a dramatic and
intense scene so there she was, crying and screaming on
the ground shouting out "I am not taking any pictures"
and another woman goes "-You have to!", that was hysterical.
The rest of the cast holds better though and never seem off.
The directing is also so and so but the movie seems as it's
high budget and they must've worked so hard to get the park
look old and messed up. The directing really never comes to
mind while you're watching this movie since it's really
very average for a medium budget horrormovie so I have a
hard time expressing in words how the directing was, it
was simply nothing special.
One thing that I reacted to was the scene where a young
boy who looks pale and bluish comes to Yen's room while
she's lying in her bed and sits down at the edge of the
bed by her feet. Meanwhile the wall over her becomes black
and all of a sudden a dark haired girl is leaning over
her. This scene was identical to the scene that was in
Ju-On: The Grudge and this surprised me since this was
supposedly made before Ju-On.
Okay, so let's skip to the positive qualities that this
movie beholds. First of all the special effects are extra-
ordinary and absolutely fantastic. I was really impressed
by the special effects and the CGI as you never really
felt the CGI in there, it all felt so incredibly real
and that was a feeling that enhightened the movies value
in my eyes. Another cool thing about this movie was the
fact that some parts of the movie was filmed in 3D so
you got to wear 3D goggles and I thought that was very cool.
This is not at all a bad movie, it's just that it's
too weird at many places, I think that they should have
perhaps dropped the ghost children and just stayed with
the little girl as the other children just made the movie
feel less scary. I did really have a good time watching
this movie though, well at least when it got going, before
that I was close to shutting it off.
While this movie isn't very gory more than a couple of
rotten corpses and some dead bloody bodies, there is
actually one really gory scene that pays off for all
the other less interesting death scenes. The scene that
I'm talking about involves a guy who gets beheaded and
it's just so cool and realistic that you are stunned.
Some carnie music in the beginning and some piano music,
this movie really lacked of eerie, creepy music actually.
It was pretty cool to hear sound effects that were also
used in such movies as "Camp Blood" and "Nikos The Impaler".
Even if The Park has a very original story considering
its origin, it still doesn't hold. I've never liked it
when they brought in religions in horrormovies and I
think that if they had excluded that part, this might
have been a very good movie. Anyway, I thought it was
worth checking out so I suggest you do the same but don't
forget to buy 3D goggles or you won't be able to enjoy
this to the fullest, and don't worry, a sign pops up
on the screen when it's time to put them on.
Review By: AnthroFred
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