I had the opportunity to watch the screening last night and wasn't expecting much.
The plot review I had read on Yahoo Movies wasn't really anything new, the lead actress looked like a drag queen in need of a chin on the poster (even folks who passed by the poster was overheard asking if it was a man in drag) and you know it's not good when you have a movie marketed as a horror film yet find audiences laughing when folks get mutilated, or terrorized.
I found myself annoyed when the victims writhe in horror when confronted with the killer. In reality, would anyone scream and writhe in apparent agony when the killer has done nothing to you but just stand there? This movie has a lot of the cliché stuff abundance in horror movies of the 80's where someone sees her friend being killed in front of her eyes and she does nothing but whimper and slow mo her way to the nearest door.
The victims are portrayed as dimwits who when given an opportunity to escape, simply returns back for more; or with so much abundance of weaponry in the house, only walks through it (blood and all) yelling out to their compadres, hoping that their friends will hear them, as well as the killers.
The portrayal of Darah would be so much creepier if she had not had that wig and perfect make-up on. The directors were hoping that Darah's signature cocking of head to one side while speaking in a monotonous voice would stick with audience. It sure stuck but for the wrong reasons because after the movie I found many people mimicking her to great hilarity. Basically every villain in this movie is too coiffed and good looking, even the fat guy! If they were living in a wooded area away from civilization, would they actually look like models? The movie also does not seem to know what it wants to be. Coming into the cinema, I was expecting a supernatural horror - it went from supernatural to natural to comedy and then to downright Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The mix in genre may be welcomed but it has to be smooth, not pop an overweight cop in the middle of the show and have him juggle.
That being said, the director's eye was impressive and some of the cinematography were unusual. It is just the script and make-up that needs to be thought through more thoroughly than just "let's have her do this so we can end up doing that". Think international but more precisely think how YOU would be scared before making a movie that is supposed to scare others.
The plot review I had read on Yahoo Movies wasn't really anything new, the lead actress looked like a drag queen in need of a chin on the poster (even folks who passed by the poster was overheard asking if it was a man in drag) and you know it's not good when you have a movie marketed as a horror film yet find audiences laughing when folks get mutilated, or terrorized.
I found myself annoyed when the victims writhe in horror when confronted with the killer. In reality, would anyone scream and writhe in apparent agony when the killer has done nothing to you but just stand there? This movie has a lot of the cliché stuff abundance in horror movies of the 80's where someone sees her friend being killed in front of her eyes and she does nothing but whimper and slow mo her way to the nearest door.
The victims are portrayed as dimwits who when given an opportunity to escape, simply returns back for more; or with so much abundance of weaponry in the house, only walks through it (blood and all) yelling out to their compadres, hoping that their friends will hear them, as well as the killers.
The portrayal of Darah would be so much creepier if she had not had that wig and perfect make-up on. The directors were hoping that Darah's signature cocking of head to one side while speaking in a monotonous voice would stick with audience. It sure stuck but for the wrong reasons because after the movie I found many people mimicking her to great hilarity. Basically every villain in this movie is too coiffed and good looking, even the fat guy! If they were living in a wooded area away from civilization, would they actually look like models? The movie also does not seem to know what it wants to be. Coming into the cinema, I was expecting a supernatural horror - it went from supernatural to natural to comedy and then to downright Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The mix in genre may be welcomed but it has to be smooth, not pop an overweight cop in the middle of the show and have him juggle.
That being said, the director's eye was impressive and some of the cinematography were unusual. It is just the script and make-up that needs to be thought through more thoroughly than just "let's have her do this so we can end up doing that". Think international but more precisely think how YOU would be scared before making a movie that is supposed to scare others.