As a DVD collector I am buying whatever looks interesting to me on my monthly visit to my favorite DVD dealer. I do buy movies of all genres and I like horror movies and thrillers, also do expect some blood and gore but sure some thrills from such kind of movie. So I was curious when loading the player and got a bitter disappointment, not that much from the story and the effects, but by the making of this movie. Sure I could have checked the comments here and would have know what was about to happen, but everybody makes mistakes sometimes. Frankly, I did not catch the whole story, cause after some time of watching I did some surfing on the internet, as it seemed more interesting, my wife, a horror movie lover as well, went to bed early - this movie did not really work.
Story in short: some bodies show up, a female investigator is up to the case, gets a well hated male partner from the FBI to team up, more bodies got found, a mysterious doctor is involved (why ? -sorry this part I missed), the mixed team is getting closer to each other and the killer, they eventually get the slasher and smoke him, though it is clear something else has to happen, otherwise the end credits would appear, and right - the smart FBI guy finds a link between all the murders and, surprise, to his female partner. When rushing to her home, she is already engaged in heavy fighting with the 'undead slasher' and the FBI-guy finally saves the night.
The story itself could have made it for a big budget movie, as there are many about serial killers. Unfortunalety it turns out that the director seems to have made home-videos before and also used his Cam to shoot the movie. The lights were awful, the cutting seem to have been made on the Home-Pc, the female body (No.3 in this movie) is heavy breathing when the FBI take a look at her, all in all from the start of the movie you realize you are watching a very low budget production. Most of this budget went into the make-up of the slasher, though they should have paid a little bit more to hire a more serious actor to play that role (when he got shot several times, it looks as he is trying to do some break-dancing). Besides the production the acting is scary as well, Ms Baker-Bernhard tried very hard to act seriously, but as found on her filmography this was the last movie she ever made - it says all. Michael Worth - unknown as well, continued his career in uncredited roles or movies most probably nobody ever saw. The director worked as producer only, after delivering this movie, though I wonder how and why. Essence of Echoes, most probably never made the money they put in making it, and that was not much.
Try to avoid this movie, I just rate it 3/10 cause of some nice makeup and some up to horror-movie-standard scenes.
Story in short: some bodies show up, a female investigator is up to the case, gets a well hated male partner from the FBI to team up, more bodies got found, a mysterious doctor is involved (why ? -sorry this part I missed), the mixed team is getting closer to each other and the killer, they eventually get the slasher and smoke him, though it is clear something else has to happen, otherwise the end credits would appear, and right - the smart FBI guy finds a link between all the murders and, surprise, to his female partner. When rushing to her home, she is already engaged in heavy fighting with the 'undead slasher' and the FBI-guy finally saves the night.
The story itself could have made it for a big budget movie, as there are many about serial killers. Unfortunalety it turns out that the director seems to have made home-videos before and also used his Cam to shoot the movie. The lights were awful, the cutting seem to have been made on the Home-Pc, the female body (No.3 in this movie) is heavy breathing when the FBI take a look at her, all in all from the start of the movie you realize you are watching a very low budget production. Most of this budget went into the make-up of the slasher, though they should have paid a little bit more to hire a more serious actor to play that role (when he got shot several times, it looks as he is trying to do some break-dancing). Besides the production the acting is scary as well, Ms Baker-Bernhard tried very hard to act seriously, but as found on her filmography this was the last movie she ever made - it says all. Michael Worth - unknown as well, continued his career in uncredited roles or movies most probably nobody ever saw. The director worked as producer only, after delivering this movie, though I wonder how and why. Essence of Echoes, most probably never made the money they put in making it, and that was not much.
Try to avoid this movie, I just rate it 3/10 cause of some nice makeup and some up to horror-movie-standard scenes.
