Whether you like THE GUARDIAN or not, make sure to watch EYES OF FIRE, an independent horror film made in the early 1980s about a tree trying to get the kids from a wandering group of colonists.
This big budgeted William Friedkin horror film was based on a book, which the author, Dan Greenburg, definitely "borrowed" heavily from the indie horror movie.
The idea of sacrificial offerings for a sentient tree is actually pretty good but in this case, no one, including the director, had their hearts in this project and the whole thing just feels like they filmed it because they were paid to do it, nothing else.
There are some interesting moments here and there. And the cast is attractive. But the film never creates any foreboding atmosphere, which it clearly needed from the get go. In the end, THE GUARDIAN just looks like a a silly TV movie of the week about some yuppies not being able to live their perfect lives because they're being tormented by something "out there."
This big budgeted William Friedkin horror film was based on a book, which the author, Dan Greenburg, definitely "borrowed" heavily from the indie horror movie.
The idea of sacrificial offerings for a sentient tree is actually pretty good but in this case, no one, including the director, had their hearts in this project and the whole thing just feels like they filmed it because they were paid to do it, nothing else.
There are some interesting moments here and there. And the cast is attractive. But the film never creates any foreboding atmosphere, which it clearly needed from the get go. In the end, THE GUARDIAN just looks like a a silly TV movie of the week about some yuppies not being able to live their perfect lives because they're being tormented by something "out there."