The Barber set in a small town in Alaska called Revelstoke so far North it's not even on some maps, with a population of 253 local barber Dexter Miles (Malcolm McDowell) is one. While on a hunting trip two locals Levi (Philip Granger) & Buffalo (C. Ernst Harth) make a horrific discover, the dead body of a local woman named Lucy (Jennifer Martinez) who had been choked to death & dumped. The suspicion immediately turns to her boyfriend but that goes nowhere when FBI Agent Crawley (Garwin Sanford) turns up & informs Sheriff Corgan (Jeremy Ratchford) that he too has been founded murdered. The hunt is on for a serial killer as the finger of suspicion points to several people but it's the kind old barber Dexter who hides the darkest secret...
Directed by Micael Bafaro I am not sure who The Barber was meant to appeal to, as a serial killer thriller it's lame & as a straight slasher horror film it's useless & I have to say I thought it was just plain crap. First of all The Barber is set in a town where for a month there is no sunlight just like in 30 Days of Night (2007) only The Barber never does anything with the concept other than seem like it takes place entirely at night, some may think it's an interesting backdrop but like I said nothing, but nothing is done with the idea & that to me is a waste of potential. Secondly there's no ambiguity here at all, we know from the start that the Barber is the killer so nothing unravels or plays out against expectation & I it ends up feeling like a precession as we, the audience, wait to see if the kind old serial killer gets away with it or not. Thirdly none of the kills happen on screen, we never see Dexter act evil at all at any time & it's hard to think of him as anything else other than an old bloke, the script never really goes into his psyche & while previous murders he committed in other towns are briefly mentioned the character development is virtually zero. Also the ending is rather confused with various file swapping & reading going on, for me Dexter just gets away with it too easily.
None of the murders happen on screen, apart from someone getting shot at the end The Barber is totally bloodless & has no violence or gore. Besides a very dark & gloomy look throughout there's not much style here, I just thought it was competent but little else. Moving along fairly slowly I suppose if you can buy into the setting, the character's & the none event of a murder mystery I suppose you might like The Barber but those with little patience should look elsewhere.
With a supposed budget of about $1,000,000 this was actually shot in a town called Revelstoke although in reality it's in British Columbia in Canada. The acting isn't bad, McDowell is a true pro so he's always watchable if nothing else & some of his monologues are alright.
The Barber is a slow moving predictable film in which virtually nothing happens, no twists or turns & the endless darkness gimmick is wasted. Persoanlly The Barber nearly put me to sleep & that just about says it all.
Directed by Micael Bafaro I am not sure who The Barber was meant to appeal to, as a serial killer thriller it's lame & as a straight slasher horror film it's useless & I have to say I thought it was just plain crap. First of all The Barber is set in a town where for a month there is no sunlight just like in 30 Days of Night (2007) only The Barber never does anything with the concept other than seem like it takes place entirely at night, some may think it's an interesting backdrop but like I said nothing, but nothing is done with the idea & that to me is a waste of potential. Secondly there's no ambiguity here at all, we know from the start that the Barber is the killer so nothing unravels or plays out against expectation & I it ends up feeling like a precession as we, the audience, wait to see if the kind old serial killer gets away with it or not. Thirdly none of the kills happen on screen, we never see Dexter act evil at all at any time & it's hard to think of him as anything else other than an old bloke, the script never really goes into his psyche & while previous murders he committed in other towns are briefly mentioned the character development is virtually zero. Also the ending is rather confused with various file swapping & reading going on, for me Dexter just gets away with it too easily.
None of the murders happen on screen, apart from someone getting shot at the end The Barber is totally bloodless & has no violence or gore. Besides a very dark & gloomy look throughout there's not much style here, I just thought it was competent but little else. Moving along fairly slowly I suppose if you can buy into the setting, the character's & the none event of a murder mystery I suppose you might like The Barber but those with little patience should look elsewhere.
With a supposed budget of about $1,000,000 this was actually shot in a town called Revelstoke although in reality it's in British Columbia in Canada. The acting isn't bad, McDowell is a true pro so he's always watchable if nothing else & some of his monologues are alright.
The Barber is a slow moving predictable film in which virtually nothing happens, no twists or turns & the endless darkness gimmick is wasted. Persoanlly The Barber nearly put me to sleep & that just about says it all.