| Overall Grade: |
F |
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| Story: |
D- |
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| Acting: |
C- |
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| Direction: |
F |
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| Visuals: |
D+ |
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Dreadful indeed.
by Michael (movies profile)
Feb 5, 2008
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Okay, we're O for 2 with the After Dark Horrorfest flicks now. We're losing the battle. But this one really tested my patience. Everything about this movie is, for lack of a better term, sparse. Dialogue: sparse. Different sets and visuals: sparse. Good points: you get the picture. Acting is pretty much a repetitious cycle of sobs and cries for help after the first twenty minutes or so. The whole thing feels flat. The story just sits there like a baked potato. No butter. No sour cream. Nothing artistic. Just flat. Just starch. But what is glaringly flawed is the direction. This movie sits on idle for what seems an eternity. Scenes take way too long time and time again, and as a viewing it starts to really become a chore to sit through what feels like the same scene over and over again. People trip over a rock FOUR TIMES in its 92 minutes! The whole movie is like this! Same things seems to keep happening until finally the director decides to pull the plug and call this turkey dead.
My patience with this whole horrorfest thing is really dwindling. I don't know if I can take it seriously. 'Too shocking'? 'Too intense'? Please. Just glad I didn't get a pass at the thaetres for this, because after sitting through Penny Dreadful, I don't think I could sit through another film right now if someone paid me. Maybe the horror genre really is dying, but with Penny, its a slow and ambivalent death.
D-, but only because I'm a nice guy. |
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