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A truly awful, drab, boring movie

posted 17 years ago by jeremyplothow
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I really enjoy horror movies for what they are, and I'm a huge fan of zombie films, but this movie was really, really terrible.

It overused every cliche in the book (is there such a book out there that I don't know about?), the visual effects were dreadful (gushing blood when the kids stabbed something) and the script was horribly written.

There was little continuity throughout the movie, the pacing was off, and the "bad guy" character was underdeveloped - I had not reaction whatsoever, neither positive or negative, when he died.

Just another crappy horror movie.

[–] the_beast_below 17 years ago

I agree! It's very rare that I go away from a movie, especially a horror movie, completely hating it. But I did, I hated this movie.

The characters were dreadful. They were stereotypical bad horror movie characters and they were irritating to boot. They did everything you hoped they wouldn't but knew they would. There was little to no character development. And the acting was just bad.

The film itself was way too dark. This didn't make the film eerie, as one would hope, but rather annoying because in most scenes you couldn't see anything other than the character's faces. The whole story was extremely predictable and often inconsistent.

I admit there were a few scenes, in the woods, that looked pretty creepy and I thought the zombie miner children looked cool, if nothing else. This movie was a total disappointment.

Stupid son of a bitch, dress me up like a gorram doll!

[–] GhostFaceKiller 17 years ago

I have to agree. This movie was extremely and almost painfully boring. Darn me and my obsessive need to give movies a chance up until the end. It's actually kind of funny. A few minutes into the movie, my girlfriend said "This movie is so cliche!" I was saying "The movie just started! It can't be cliche yet." The movie then proceeded to remain extremely boring and cliche throughout the entire hour and a half. I guess I didn't HATE this movie, but it is the kind of movie I'd have been much happier not having watched. I feel like I waisted that hour and a half of my life.

I agree that there was not enough character development. They didn't really give us enough of a chance to hate Carlton. After all, what had he done that was so evil? So, his ancesters were evil a-holes who let little kids die in a mine ages ago. So what? HE didn't do it. So he's a bit of an a-hole himself. So what? That isn't a crime worthy of death. We really didn't see anything happen that would make him SO evil that he deserved to die, yet we were meant to react as though he did deserve it. I mean, I'm sure a lot of people have ancestors who did bad, bad things, but that doesn't automatically make them bad people as well. I take it we were meant to be given the impression that Carlton would have done the same thing as whatever Carlton ancestor of his it was that doomed the children so long ago, but they just didn't convey that very well.

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[–] srs1mail 17 years ago

"The film itself was way too dark. This didn't make the film eerie, as one would hope, but rather annoying because in most scenes you couldn't see anything other than the character's faces. The whole story was extremely predictable and often inconsistent."
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You are so right. I watched it a few minutes ago on the Sci/Fi channel.

I wanted to see this movie. I watched it, but couldn't SEE much of anything.

I thought Ben Cross was pretty good. He looked the part, although his lines were kinda silly.

I was going to watch the next movie Something Beneath too. I made it through
51 minutes. The Paris Hilton-esque character was so annoying! By the time they
finally killed her off, it was too late.

I love horror movies, and you know it has to be pretty bad when you switch over to Iron Chef America reruns.

[–] MadWatch 17 years ago

I agree with all the other negative replies: This movie was slow, cliched, boring and not scary at all. This movie would have been good if it came out in the early 1970s, but, by todays standards, it is crap.

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[–] janeyinlove 17 years ago

By today's standards it's totally stupid. We've seen this before and done millions of times better. Truly one of the worst movies I've seen

[–] beckeis 17 years ago

I kept waiting for it to get better and it never did!!
Geeez!
It's tough to like a movie when you don't like any of the characters!

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[–] janeyinlove 17 years ago

It should have been edited down to one second. It was that bad. The characters sucked, the story sucked, it just SUCKED.

Perfect word for this pile of steaming cr@p: Drab

[–] janeyinlove 16 years ago

Now that I think of it, drab is actually too nice of an adjective for this insult. The bad make-up alone is enough to avoid it like the plague.

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[–] Navaros 16 years ago

This movie was interesting in the opening scene but once it flashed forward to present day with an annoying single mother and her annoying bratty foul-mouthed kids, then it was all downhill from there and I knew it would be a total crap movie.

I hate when movies have opening scenes that are not at all like the rest of the movie, and a million times better than the actual rest of the movie itself. Ie: This movie; 28 Days Later etc. etc.

[–] bishoujo 16 years ago

I think it was truly horrible... I mean really, really scary... I hate that the kids killed so many people the way they did...

And I hate the fact that in every horror movie where someone's chased, they get into the car, but it doesn't start... it's ALWAYS like that and it's so frustrating, it's not even funny!

[–] janeyinlove 16 years ago

It was horrible, all right. A real yawn fest.

I don't care about cliches when at least they're done well, but this was not even done slightly decently. It was so bad I couldn't believe it. Avoid it like the plague unless you like yawning non stop.

[–] StaySaneInsideInsanity 15 years ago

I agree! It was so cliche and so dark that it was just plain boring! The cover made it look quite spooky! I thought it may be decent and avoid the normal cliches because it contained no nudity and/or sex scenes which usually indicate what sort of horror movie it is.

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