It doesn't take long for this "Evil Dead" knock-off to annoy me. First the spoiler, i.e. The unnecessary trailer-within-the-movie opening scene. Why? If I had already decided to watch the movie then WHY would you feel compelled to add a bloody teaser in the movie itself! Even more spoilers in the opening credits and its illustrations.
The married couple: they can't stop kissing and touching each other, behaving as if they were 15 year-olds discovering sex for the first time. Every time they slobbered I wanted to punch them in the face. It seems highly unrealistic - not to mention completely irrelevant - that the writer would want to constantly bring up the obvious fact that they're in love. Is this a horror movie or a frigging TV soaper? I could give three craps about their relationship.
Speaking of emotionally reetahrded 20somethings, the Blonde's brother and the Goth Chick start bonking mere minutes after going inside the cabin. Is this some irrational side of Sweden I hadn't heard of before, or is the writer just another hack?
One of the guys plans a prank, so he sends Other Brunette to a dark room to scare the others. "It's too dark in here," she says stupidly. The curtains though...? All she had to do is pull them aside. Duh. Then she starts inspecting a filthy, dark, abandoned cellar which is even darker and filthier than the room she'd complained about! It is so far-fetched for a woman to go inside this particular cellar in this particular situation that I just face-palmed. She couldn't just wait for the others to tell them about the cellar? Because, obviously, modern Instagram women are desperate to go into filthy badly-lit rooms, they just love those... Even dumber, when the neighbour shows up he says that his wife and daughter had also gone into the cellar as soon as they'd entered the house. What is it with Swedish women and filthy cellars!
Predictably, Other Brunette meets a creature there.
Less predictably, she decides not to mention it to anyone! When she starts realizing she's changing her appearance she doesn't ask for help. Why not? Because the script stinks.
Then Goth Chick, who seems to be even thicker than Other Brunette, approaches her from behind, not noticing that her neck and shoulders are covered in blood and filth, while OB just stands on the stairway like a zombie. At this point, at the very latest, I knew this dumb movie was beyond repair.
After sheet hits the Swedish fan, the neighbour checks up on them. He wants to inquire if they're OK. Their reaction? Hostility and lies. It'd be only natural to be thankful for any kind of help in a bizarre situation such as this, yet these dumb kids seem to do everything that's contrary to typical human behaviour. That's we film critics call bad writing i.e. Misusing/treating characters as plot-devices, not as real people.
The neighbour talks about getting rid of OB demon AND calling the police! Isn't that mutually exclusive? "Yeah, hi, cops, we got this zombie situation at our hands, a girl is possessed by a demon, we want you to come by, but before you do we'll shoot her down". Duh. Which anyway begs the question: did the neighbour inform the cops of the deaths of his wife and daughter?
Predictably, Prank Kid gets attacked by Goth zombie, yet it never occurs to him to shout for help. Again, the writer misuses people as illogical cardboard characters: they are zombies BEFORE even turning to zombies. The rest of the cast for some reason don't hear the fracas when the two start wrestling and breaking furniture.
Psycho Guy, after he knocks out Other Blonde, starts digging a grave for her. In a forest. In the rain. While running away from a potential demon attack. Nor is it credible he'd simply abandon his sister in the cabin for so long. Just as dumb as his sister refusing to let him inside the room, despite there being no evidence he was infected - while she and her husband were. It seems that the writer was desperate to include a psychopath in the story: zombies and demons just weren't enough. How about throwing in an alien invasion too while you're at it?
When Psycho Guy turns, he starts bashing his sister with a large steel rod, over and over, yet she seems fine! What laughable drivel.
The entire movie is plain dumb hence ineffective and dull, despite the plentiful action. The movie doesn't even attempt to explain why a demon was hiding in the cellar in the first place. He's just there. Nor can the movie really even make up its mind whether these are zombies or demons. The movie tells us nothing: it's just a series of murders i.e. Hand-to-hand combat scenes between zombiedemons and humans.
Still, at least it isn't mono-colour but has a decent look. And the mobile phones work! Amazing, huh?
The married couple: they can't stop kissing and touching each other, behaving as if they were 15 year-olds discovering sex for the first time. Every time they slobbered I wanted to punch them in the face. It seems highly unrealistic - not to mention completely irrelevant - that the writer would want to constantly bring up the obvious fact that they're in love. Is this a horror movie or a frigging TV soaper? I could give three craps about their relationship.
Speaking of emotionally reetahrded 20somethings, the Blonde's brother and the Goth Chick start bonking mere minutes after going inside the cabin. Is this some irrational side of Sweden I hadn't heard of before, or is the writer just another hack?
One of the guys plans a prank, so he sends Other Brunette to a dark room to scare the others. "It's too dark in here," she says stupidly. The curtains though...? All she had to do is pull them aside. Duh. Then she starts inspecting a filthy, dark, abandoned cellar which is even darker and filthier than the room she'd complained about! It is so far-fetched for a woman to go inside this particular cellar in this particular situation that I just face-palmed. She couldn't just wait for the others to tell them about the cellar? Because, obviously, modern Instagram women are desperate to go into filthy badly-lit rooms, they just love those... Even dumber, when the neighbour shows up he says that his wife and daughter had also gone into the cellar as soon as they'd entered the house. What is it with Swedish women and filthy cellars!
Predictably, Other Brunette meets a creature there.
Less predictably, she decides not to mention it to anyone! When she starts realizing she's changing her appearance she doesn't ask for help. Why not? Because the script stinks.
Then Goth Chick, who seems to be even thicker than Other Brunette, approaches her from behind, not noticing that her neck and shoulders are covered in blood and filth, while OB just stands on the stairway like a zombie. At this point, at the very latest, I knew this dumb movie was beyond repair.
After sheet hits the Swedish fan, the neighbour checks up on them. He wants to inquire if they're OK. Their reaction? Hostility and lies. It'd be only natural to be thankful for any kind of help in a bizarre situation such as this, yet these dumb kids seem to do everything that's contrary to typical human behaviour. That's we film critics call bad writing i.e. Misusing/treating characters as plot-devices, not as real people.
The neighbour talks about getting rid of OB demon AND calling the police! Isn't that mutually exclusive? "Yeah, hi, cops, we got this zombie situation at our hands, a girl is possessed by a demon, we want you to come by, but before you do we'll shoot her down". Duh. Which anyway begs the question: did the neighbour inform the cops of the deaths of his wife and daughter?
Predictably, Prank Kid gets attacked by Goth zombie, yet it never occurs to him to shout for help. Again, the writer misuses people as illogical cardboard characters: they are zombies BEFORE even turning to zombies. The rest of the cast for some reason don't hear the fracas when the two start wrestling and breaking furniture.
Psycho Guy, after he knocks out Other Blonde, starts digging a grave for her. In a forest. In the rain. While running away from a potential demon attack. Nor is it credible he'd simply abandon his sister in the cabin for so long. Just as dumb as his sister refusing to let him inside the room, despite there being no evidence he was infected - while she and her husband were. It seems that the writer was desperate to include a psychopath in the story: zombies and demons just weren't enough. How about throwing in an alien invasion too while you're at it?
When Psycho Guy turns, he starts bashing his sister with a large steel rod, over and over, yet she seems fine! What laughable drivel.
The entire movie is plain dumb hence ineffective and dull, despite the plentiful action. The movie doesn't even attempt to explain why a demon was hiding in the cellar in the first place. He's just there. Nor can the movie really even make up its mind whether these are zombies or demons. The movie tells us nothing: it's just a series of murders i.e. Hand-to-hand combat scenes between zombiedemons and humans.
Still, at least it isn't mono-colour but has a decent look. And the mobile phones work! Amazing, huh?