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Creep (2004)
What was the point ?
Like many Hollywood movies before it, this is excuse to use loud noises and gory scenes to scare you. And yet again failing miserably. With lots of small scenes cobbled together with no flow or plot, this film had the structure of a patchwork quilt. Annoying to make, quickly forgotten, and glad when its done. There is a subtle hint of a plot in a very anti-climactic scene in which the main bad guy, monster, or whatever you want to call it, operates on a girl in an old makeshift surgery. If I could sum this film up in one word I would say "Boring". Its not worth the effort of leaving the house.
With all that said, if you are the kind of person who likes a jumpy, gory, brain in a bucket film, then this may appeal to you. However I prefer to have a bit of story in my movies!
Ghost Lake (2004)
Ghost Lake...Not just a clever title ?
This is one of those films my friend calls a Potential Sleeper. Meaning that its one of those films that you have never heard of and have no idea who the actors are. Never the less the film might surprise you and be good. This film was not! The overall feel of the film was that it had been made by a 7 year old. However the film did keep me riveted to the screen. I kept watching and waiting to see what muck was going to appear on the screen next.
The acting was terrible, the cinematography as already stated was amateurish, and the makeup and special effects were unbelievably bad. The corpses looked like they had covered a toy skeleton in jelly. When the first corpse spoke I almost wet myself with laughter.
The opening scene in which her parents die from a gas leak, told me all I needed to know about the production values of this film. The main plot involved some kind of curse, at twin girl who pretended to be one of the dead people living in the lake and people getting killed every 13th something or other. The story was badly structured and made no real sense.
The only saving grace, is that the main actress exposes her two bouncy friends. If this is a ploy to keep you watching in the hope that she will do it again, then it worked. I was rewarded for my 90mins of agonising pain when she did it again towards the end.
I feel sorry for anyone who has to watch this film, and I feel sorrier for anyone who actually liked it.
White Noise (2005)
Too Little, Too late.
I first heard about White Noise when I saw the TV advert. Before then I didn't even know it existed. I watched the trailer online and decided that I would go and see it. Now being a fan of films like The Sixth Sense, I thought that this film would give me everything I wanted. It has Michael Keaton in it, and he rocks. Unfortunately the film did not deliver. It tried to be another Sixth Sense or Stir of Echoes, and failed miserably. It has a very promising start, but the middle just drags on repeating itself, and ends with a completely poor twist which any monkey could have figured out. Unfortunately like most "Scary" films nowadays it relies on loud noises and bangs to make the audience jump. This film could have been so much more. It's a shame because it was a good idea.