Boyfriend's Mumbling Accent + Obnoxiously Loud Music...Very Annoying!
I've never slammed a movie here, but after paying $6.99 for this on Pay Per View...I was annoyed.
The 1st thing....
I found it very hard to understand her boyfriend & make out what the heck he was saying. If I was the casting director, I'd have cast a different actor for the part. Maybe one you could understand?
Accents are great on actors, when they add to the movie & or just sound sexy. Boyfriend's wasn't sexy, nor was he....& it wasn't just the his accent. The worst thing was that Boyfriend mumbled throughout his lines, like he had marbles in his mouth.
Truth be told, my closed caption couldn't decipher his words. My captioned words came back a jumbled mess of alphabetical ca ca when he spoke.
My 2nd issue....
The music, eccchhh! Annoyingly crappy music! Again....I love music, when it adds to the plot or movie, but this did not. One minute, you are treated to some very loud & crappy hard rock from an electric guitar strumming away at a very odd time in the movie.
Another time when she's passed out on the floor, after barfing for the umpteeth time....you're treated to some very loud & obnoxious classical violin. And later... We get loud electronic rave type music. What was up with this? The music didn't mesh well & came out kinda bipolar, maybe even tripolar.
Lastly, The Volume...
I'm not hard of hearing, much....but when I can't make out what is being said (w/mumbling accents) + my closed caption gets stumped.....I must rely on turning up my volume from 0 to 52 on the control, to try & make sense of what's being said during movie. But while doing this, I got blasted out of my seat w/ the soothing sounds of screaming electric guitar & crappy violin & electronic stuff. Echh!
I almost gave up on this movie 32 mins into it. Only out of morbid curiosity was I driven to find out how she ended up, along with the drive to push on due to my lost $6.99. This was why I finally finished this movie.
The only thing I could say on the plus side for this movie was the excellent & very realistic FX make-up. Awesome & very gross!
I hated the plot holes:
1) There was no background storyline. Like, how did this happen?
2) How did she get this way?
3) Was this a sexually transmitted disease?
4) Or, was this caused by black mold spores? (since the movie began w/ her staring up at a rotted black crevice in the ceiling, while recouping from her post-coital bliss....A crevice which by the way resembled a nasty cartoonish vajajay)
I thought the crevice had a lot to do with her condition, since she'd just moved into that apartment. Also, the movie's poster showed that crevice, too. Was that crevice supposed to be symbolic? Maybe hinting to her failing condition... Like she was rotting & turning black inside, too?
Prior to watching "Thanatomorphose", I watched a very similar movie called "Contracted". I was surprised how similar the characters were, in both movies. But, I loved that there was a storyline to "Contracted". I wasn't too keen on "Contracted's" ending tho...kind of a cop out.
"Contracted" kept me interested throughout, due to a decent storyline & a good backround. The FX make up with "Contracted" was great, too!
I think if both movies were somehow meshed/ combined together, they could have made for one very cool movie! Just my thoughts!