(5/10)
A smug movie producer that looks like a cross between George Harrison and Eric Bogosian has a bunch
of friends that he doesn't seem to like very much over to his family estate to show them his latest film
which is a supposedly true story about his family curse that has something to do with a witch burned at
the stake who puts a curse on his family for all generations. Shortly after strange shit happens and
several people who were there - and people they happen to come in contact with briefly - start ending
up dying violent deaths.
It's a vaguely interesting premise that's really just not presented in a very interesting manner. A lot of
the movie kind of has a whodunit feel - but it doesn't really pan out. The mysticism angle doesn't make a
lot of sense and isn't all that well-explained. Apparently it has something to do with high winds and glass
breaking because every time something happens there's glass breaking and that supposedly is
supposed to mean something.
There's not much character development which makes it extremely hard to really care when people get
killed - particularly since every one of those scenes drags on so long with people running around in a
panic for a long time before anything happens except wind blowing and glass breaking. I guess this
should be suspenseful, but it's not - we kind of know these folks are getting killed and we start to just
want them to die already (I call that the "Blair Witch Project" syndrome).
Reminded me of "The Flesh and Blood Show" but nowhere as good. Some violent deaths for the
gore-hounds, not much nudity despite very attractive females in the cast. The only nude scene is a
striptease by an ugly woman who's the spitting image of Marilyn Manson (well, maybe if you have a sick
fetish that may work for you). You probably won't get through it more than once.
A smug movie producer that looks like a cross between George Harrison and Eric Bogosian has a bunch
of friends that he doesn't seem to like very much over to his family estate to show them his latest film
which is a supposedly true story about his family curse that has something to do with a witch burned at
the stake who puts a curse on his family for all generations. Shortly after strange shit happens and
several people who were there - and people they happen to come in contact with briefly - start ending
up dying violent deaths.
It's a vaguely interesting premise that's really just not presented in a very interesting manner. A lot of
the movie kind of has a whodunit feel - but it doesn't really pan out. The mysticism angle doesn't make a
lot of sense and isn't all that well-explained. Apparently it has something to do with high winds and glass
breaking because every time something happens there's glass breaking and that supposedly is
supposed to mean something.
There's not much character development which makes it extremely hard to really care when people get
killed - particularly since every one of those scenes drags on so long with people running around in a
panic for a long time before anything happens except wind blowing and glass breaking. I guess this
should be suspenseful, but it's not - we kind of know these folks are getting killed and we start to just
want them to die already (I call that the "Blair Witch Project" syndrome).
Reminded me of "The Flesh and Blood Show" but nowhere as good. Some violent deaths for the
gore-hounds, not much nudity despite very attractive females in the cast. The only nude scene is a
striptease by an ugly woman who's the spitting image of Marilyn Manson (well, maybe if you have a sick
fetish that may work for you). You probably won't get through it more than once.
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Rating;
| by Jim Haggerty |
