After eating for almost 2 hours in a steamboat restaurant, we head off to watch a horror movie in Sunway Pyramid.
Dark floors hmm..
It's really amusing hearing majority of people and movie reviews deducing that this movie is really scary. I dare say, it's practically not. The entire film takes around 90 minutes and so to say, only the first 25 minutes kept me intoxicated with the show. As the poster above look as good as it seems, a movie having retarded ghost looking like Shakespeare and ambiguous ending will never captivate me enough to continue watching this movie at all or to even leave me with a moderate impression after leaving the cinema.
Going in to it, I had no idea what to expect. Was it going to be serious ? a sophisticated movie full with complexity and conundrum intertwined together with parallel world ? ridiculous ? or funny ? Well.. maybe everything except the word : Scary.
The show revolved around a soon-isolated hospital with sudden silence whereby a drop of a pin is enough to echo the entire area. With the characters advancing deeper and deeper into the creepy and eerie hospital, various version of "ghost" or "monster" soon randomly appear out of nowhere. Enough to frighten you, maybe.. but just 1 second. Period.
Besides, I found it aggravating that I just couldn't see the action or what was going on at times. However, the look of the film is great with sinister looking hospital corridors and rooms, terrifying mutilated corpse lurking around the corner. The only major fallback of this show is definitely the bloody monster. The monster wasn't even scary or "hair-raising".
Obviously looking at the amount of budget, estimated around 4mil, how can one actually give a proper decent scary movie. Moreover, the ending was a copout. Basically a young autistic girl named Sarah did most of her part at the end of the movie, battling the final boss monster, and eventually head back to where the first scene was started. Therefore, I have yet to really sink my teeth into any of these kind of movie.
Obviously looking at the amount of budget, estimated around 4mil, how can one actually give a proper decent scary movie. Moreover, the ending was a copout. Basically a young autistic girl named Sarah did most of her part at the end of the movie, battling the final boss monster, and eventually head back to where the first scene was started. Therefore, I have yet to really sink my teeth into any of these kind of movie.
As some might find obvious from the above, one can say that there is a lot of overused "scares" and set-ups from typical Asian horror films, as well as the good Asian tendency to sideline story and unlogical progression for the sake of aesthetically refined "scary" sequences. The film was neither good nor bad in the first half hour, but all this changes when the first member of monster makes her screaming entrance. Looking as ridiculous and stupid in their monster-like constumes really kept me a straight face leaving with awe.
They do not look scarier on screen than on stage ! One of them looks like a super-sized monster with a studded leather-jacket coming from an online game. Ya allah, to me, it's either ironic genius or prepubescent and juvenile stupidity acted out by grown and matured man.
They just don't push the envelope far enough. Basically the best way of describing it is ludicrous, ridiculous, moronic, meaningless and a waste of precious time. Musics played in the movie were exceptionally cliched, predictable and totally mainstream. Plastered in heavy cliches and predictable plot-twists, absence of mood senses, providing the least scary monsters ever to grace the silver screen really earn a 1/5 stars from me.
The end.
-Ben Lim Beng Han
29-12-2008
1 Comment
Ever thought of being a critic when you grow up? XD.
Anyways I dont think the monster looks like Shakespeare, he is much better looking.
=D
Posted on December 29, 2008 at 2:05 AM