This is not a cheaply made B horror movie, because they honestly tried to inject lots of mysterious supernatural spirits into this story, but it all just didnt work.
The bad: the story. The story and the way in which it is directed are just not achieving the desired effect of drama and mystery. The opposite unfortunately is true, because this story ends up looking quite silly and without impressing me whatsoever.
Cheap mystery effects like fog and dark forrests and a gloomy monotonous soundtrack only annoyed me. That droning soundtrack did NOT stop. It kept on churning out the same doomy sound as if to make sure we viewers knew that this was one heavy mother of a story. NOT !
Not any good? I started watching this for Guy Pearce who is a marvellous actor, but because of this bad direction and silly story, even his solid performance didnt convince. Such a shame. Somewhere there was a good movie buried in there, but it didnt come to fruition.
The story (SPOILERS): a racist murderous criminal (Guy Pearce) kills foreigners who come to live in his town and in the end gets killed himself. And all sorts of mumbo jumbo about animal possesed spirits in between.
The bad: the story. The story and the way in which it is directed are just not achieving the desired effect of drama and mystery. The opposite unfortunately is true, because this story ends up looking quite silly and without impressing me whatsoever.
Cheap mystery effects like fog and dark forrests and a gloomy monotonous soundtrack only annoyed me. That droning soundtrack did NOT stop. It kept on churning out the same doomy sound as if to make sure we viewers knew that this was one heavy mother of a story. NOT !
Not any good? I started watching this for Guy Pearce who is a marvellous actor, but because of this bad direction and silly story, even his solid performance didnt convince. Such a shame. Somewhere there was a good movie buried in there, but it didnt come to fruition.
The story (SPOILERS): a racist murderous criminal (Guy Pearce) kills foreigners who come to live in his town and in the end gets killed himself. And all sorts of mumbo jumbo about animal possesed spirits in between.