No, this isn't the great American horror movie, nor will it scare the pants off of you. But it does have a certain charm. The joy in watching this movie is the fun of seeing a group of young people who obviously had no feature-length movie-making experience, and no budget, put their heads together and make the most of what they had to work with.
The plot is a confused mess and defies all logic, as any other review of this movie will correctly tell you, but it did do one thing that a lot of much bigger budget horror movies I've seen in the past few years failed to do - it entertained me.
The wrap-around plot is nonsensical, some craziness about a girl getting a bunch of high school friends together in the most unsafe, isolated place she can find, because she's had dreams about their deaths that she thinks will come true, and she wants to protect them - by tricking them into gathering in the most unsafe, isolated place she can find.
Then we are thrust into her dreams, shown as three vignettes that could really stand alone as short films, which has led to this movie, for better or worse, being tagged with the "anthology" label. The first dream is kind of lame. The second one, though it doesn't really fit in with the film, if pretty amusing. The third vignette, however, is sharp and creepy, and contains the best performances in the movie.
The overall quality of the acting is better than one would expect for a no-budget movie, and there are some real flashes of cleverness in the direction. With a higher budget, these guys could probably put together a pretty good movie.
If you take it's lack of a budget into account, and you go into the movie with the attitude that you're going to enjoy it for what it is rather than question it, you'll probably get some enjoyment out of it.
And it has a cool twist ending that I did not see coming at all.
The plot is a confused mess and defies all logic, as any other review of this movie will correctly tell you, but it did do one thing that a lot of much bigger budget horror movies I've seen in the past few years failed to do - it entertained me.
The wrap-around plot is nonsensical, some craziness about a girl getting a bunch of high school friends together in the most unsafe, isolated place she can find, because she's had dreams about their deaths that she thinks will come true, and she wants to protect them - by tricking them into gathering in the most unsafe, isolated place she can find.
Then we are thrust into her dreams, shown as three vignettes that could really stand alone as short films, which has led to this movie, for better or worse, being tagged with the "anthology" label. The first dream is kind of lame. The second one, though it doesn't really fit in with the film, if pretty amusing. The third vignette, however, is sharp and creepy, and contains the best performances in the movie.
The overall quality of the acting is better than one would expect for a no-budget movie, and there are some real flashes of cleverness in the direction. With a higher budget, these guys could probably put together a pretty good movie.
If you take it's lack of a budget into account, and you go into the movie with the attitude that you're going to enjoy it for what it is rather than question it, you'll probably get some enjoyment out of it.
And it has a cool twist ending that I did not see coming at all.