Granted, I wasn't harboring much of any expectations to this 1990 horror movie titled "The Haunting of Morella" from writers R. J. Robertson and Jim Wynorski, though I opted to watch it regardless since it was based on an Edgar Allan Poe story.
While I haven't read Poe's story upon which this movie is based, so I have no idea how true writers R. J. Robertson and Jim Wynorski stayed to the source material. But this movie was painful to sit through. The storyline was slow paced, monotonous, and actually downright boring.
The acting performances in the movie didn't exactly do much to lift up the movie either. But then again, the actors and actresses didn't really have a world of contents to work with here in terms of script, dialogue and characters. There are some familiar faces on the cast list, with the likes of David McCallum, Lana Clarkson, Maria Ford and Nicole Eggert. Not top list performers, sure, but some familiar faces nonetheless.
For a horror movie, then "The Haunting of Morella" was a swing and a miss. It is more like a mystery with elements of thriller and supernatural to it.
My rating of director Jim Wynorski's 1990s movie "The Haunting of Morella" lands on a three out of ten stars.
While I haven't read Poe's story upon which this movie is based, so I have no idea how true writers R. J. Robertson and Jim Wynorski stayed to the source material. But this movie was painful to sit through. The storyline was slow paced, monotonous, and actually downright boring.
The acting performances in the movie didn't exactly do much to lift up the movie either. But then again, the actors and actresses didn't really have a world of contents to work with here in terms of script, dialogue and characters. There are some familiar faces on the cast list, with the likes of David McCallum, Lana Clarkson, Maria Ford and Nicole Eggert. Not top list performers, sure, but some familiar faces nonetheless.
For a horror movie, then "The Haunting of Morella" was a swing and a miss. It is more like a mystery with elements of thriller and supernatural to it.
My rating of director Jim Wynorski's 1990s movie "The Haunting of Morella" lands on a three out of ten stars.