Contains Spoilers I admit, I wanted to see this movie. I expected it to be decent, as it was from the same people who made House On Haunted Hill. What I didn't expect was for it to be so bad.
1. What was up with the lighting? Did they spend the entire budget on the website graphics and not have enough left over for electricity?
2. How many times can one movie reuse special effects from House On Haunted Hill? The "ghosts" walking around and having a seizure? The "ghost" at the end looked so much like the "shadow" from HOHH that I was waiting for Famke Janssen to pop out of it looking for Geoffrey Rush. The even ripped off the gory statues that could be found in the foyer to the basement in HOHH.
3. How did the main characters fall in love after meeting for two seconds? They had very little chemistry together. Which is probably due to the fact that Natascha McElhone CAN'T ACT!
4. The website issue and Denise the ghost woman were never really tied together that well either. AND, while we're on the subject of little Miss Ghost Denise, what mother would let her hemopheliac 8 year old walk 2 miles down the street to play in an old abandoned steel mill?
With a running time of 98 minutes that felt like 3 hours, by the end of feardotcom I had laughed so much that I really didn't care how it ended. I only wish that McElhone hadn't survived either, because the last part of the movie, the epilogue of her answering the phone and it being just static made no sense either.
Thank God they showed a preview for Ghost Ship!
1. What was up with the lighting? Did they spend the entire budget on the website graphics and not have enough left over for electricity?
2. How many times can one movie reuse special effects from House On Haunted Hill? The "ghosts" walking around and having a seizure? The "ghost" at the end looked so much like the "shadow" from HOHH that I was waiting for Famke Janssen to pop out of it looking for Geoffrey Rush. The even ripped off the gory statues that could be found in the foyer to the basement in HOHH.
3. How did the main characters fall in love after meeting for two seconds? They had very little chemistry together. Which is probably due to the fact that Natascha McElhone CAN'T ACT!
4. The website issue and Denise the ghost woman were never really tied together that well either. AND, while we're on the subject of little Miss Ghost Denise, what mother would let her hemopheliac 8 year old walk 2 miles down the street to play in an old abandoned steel mill?
With a running time of 98 minutes that felt like 3 hours, by the end of feardotcom I had laughed so much that I really didn't care how it ended. I only wish that McElhone hadn't survived either, because the last part of the movie, the epilogue of her answering the phone and it being just static made no sense either.
Thank God they showed a preview for Ghost Ship!