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Dread (2009)
Dread? Yes, I dread the possibility of watching this again....
Jackson Rathbone may be in the starring role and does it fairly well, but I actually watched this because of the actor Shaun Evans who was brilliant in Martina Cole's "The Take".
Anyway, good news first, there are some very good camera shots/angles used like the following the axe upstairs, I thought really gave these scenes an edge and for maybe the first half hour I was a bit tense expecting a slow build up and raucous end.
But no.
Nothing really happened in the film at all, the best parts are the ones with either flashbacks of Quaid's horror filled night or the present views into his madness, with the strip club being a good point!
For a film centered around fear, where was it? Stephens brother died in a car crash while drunk...so Quaid buys the same type car, drives Stephen and then takes a sip of whatever to scare him? Makes no sense...
Cheryl's Dad stank of meat but would she really be scared of meat? And Abbeys video wasn't about fear, more humiliation for her birthmark.
I could go on but I'll finish by saying save yourself 1.5 hours and watch something with substance.
Basement Jack (2009)
Massive LOL fest!
I realise it isn't supposed to be a comedy but I pretty much did laugh all the way through this!
I won't bore you with the storyline or lack of... just point out the random things that made me chuckle!
The acting, especially the cop characters, all of them! The blatant ripping off of several horror films...Friday 13th-machete, Halloween-doll/clown mask and near end scene where Jack falls down and looks dead? Psycho- OK a bit stretched but the shower scene!
I as left with more than a few questions as well... why did the fence become electrified at the end? it isn't part of a transformer.
Why did the weird apartment owner not die, and was covered in something that looked like blood?
Why were all the cops called into the morgue and then shown photos from previous murders?
Why in the name of God do people insist on casting really bad Cockney actors with dodgy mullets in anything?!?