[2011]
It's like PULSE and ALAN WAKE had babies that didn't make enough money so they disowned it.
I was so looking forward to this movie, I was gutted when it wasn't coming over here in our movies as I'd read about it online and seen a trailer and it looked so good. Sadly the reality of it was.. anything with John Leguizamo in it [other then Ice Age] is not going to be anything to write home about. I like the guy but I think it's through pity.
So the action gets going pretty near the start which is good for me as I hate the huge slow build ups like alot of horror movies try and do for tension, they rarely do it nicely. So anyway we see clips of people's lives before this happens and then after.
Find out where they work, tiny bits about the people they are before they band together. Seems the only person in the whole movie who is clued in is Paul and Luke where as the woman is my FAVOURITE type of post apocalypse person 'IT WAS DA WILL OF GAAAWD'
So people vanish after a city wide black out only leaving their clothes and stuff. Was it the rapture? this question gets asked in the movie time and time but I don't want to touch on the heavy hinting of 'god' stuff from the woman.
Very soon into the movie we see shadows move around in an eerie fashion, some make you up moments are put into play but the creeping shadows and the little whispers that come with them are pretty scary, granted and the effects are nicely done.
It doesn't take long for us all to realise that the evil shadows slinking around after people are the dead, the people who already got taken. This to me feels alot like the movie PULSE [Kario for original] but instead of the dead coming through an opened up wave length they are simply shadows who hate the light.
Which brings me to why this movie is also like ALAN WAKE lights and flash lights of any sort are your main weapon which is what you use in ALAN WAKE to help kill the 'taken' so to me this movie is no more then borrowed pieces from another horror hardly anyone remembers and a video game. It lost all original factor with me in pretty much 20 minutes of viewing.
And as in so many horror movies survivors band together in a vain attempt to either save themselves or to avoid dying alone. Luke who's pretty clued in says the days are getting shorter and shorter and light is fading fast. They find a small bar which has it's own generator which is always on it's way out.
We have a kid James who's mum works there but she went off to go see the light in the church, more bloody hinting at gawd stuff I feel. So yeah, they are all huddled together and Paul played by Sid the Sloth has a pretty nasty head booboo and he's still smarter then the rest.
So they SPLIT UP! when has that ever worked in anything ever? I know people in horror movies act like they have never seen a horror movie but come on at least Scobby Doo?!
So Luke and Godlady go to find medical stuff to help Paul with his head problem and all sorts of wacky shit insures! such as spotting a little girl who just runs from them all the time like the shitty brother in Silent Hill Homecoming. Bastard...
The dark shadows of death are sneaky bastards and start to trick people into fake light. This is how pretty much everyone dies, yeah don't get attached to anyone other then the kid cus hey it's still taboo to have kids killed off in anything right? so it was a safe bet from the start the two kids would be fine.
So in the end The little boy James runs off to see if his mother is in the church which she is in ghooost foooorm and causes Luke to get taken and everything they did up until now had been in vain cus he had to go and be a little whiny bitch.
Him and the girl find a horse outside the church and ride off into the sunset together with a huge ass solar powered torch which seemed to be the only form of light that worked fully in the whole fucking movie.
I know I slammed this movie pretty bad but it had it's good points on a horror level. You feel a consent sense of urgency and panic the whole way through the movie as the shadows of the dead are always there, always lurking, you can see them all the time and hear them.
The fact that every sorce of light lasts like ten seconds and always in need of fumbling in the dark to rekindle any sort of light adds to the intense feeling of ohshitohshitoshitdemshadowsgunnagetyou!
Scares: 2/5
Acting: 2/5
Gore: 0/5
Story: 3/5
Over all enjoyment: 2.5/5
I REALLY wanted to love this movie...
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