well, as a fan of schlock, b-movies, horror, and the like, i found this movie to be quite good in those catagories. i am forever a huge fan of sometimes not being able to see everything clearly in scenes in basements of hallways...the darkness alludes to many emotions that we all share. forget about the story and the actors...just check out the building where sardu's theater was. it was dark, gritty, and filthy. and chances are, they found it that way. look at the basement scenes...again, it looked like what it was supposed to look like: forgotten by time.
i enjoy new hollywood horror movies too, they just will never scare me. i think they can learn a little bit from movies like this (e.g.- toolbox murders, microwave massacre, last house on the left, and so on). if the "new generation" of horror directors want to give people the creeps again, they have to use raw elements like genuine locations, bad lighting, gritty film quality (the color red looks like orange), unstable cameras, and understand the magic of shadows. i mean, these are elements that mimic dreams and nightmares, dark and mysterious.
even though the scripts aren't written well in some of the movies i listed, they sure got the atmosphere for the genre correct.
*fun fact* it had been rumored that seamus o'brien (sardu) was killed over his part in this movie...the botched apartment break-in wasn't the motive. the same goes for Viju Krem (Natasha D'Natalie). she was supposedly killed in a "hunting accident" (good creepshow quote).
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