This movie is not as bad as I though it would be given that it is
a direct to DVD horror movie (reads: didn't have my hopes up and actually found
myself enjoying the film). It appears surprisingly well funded, but surely it wasn't
-- we'll just call it well-budgeted for the special effects given to us.
As a Fangoria flick, I suppose I should have expected at least marginal
financial backing, which it appears to have had. In other words, you're
not going to see the strings on the rubber bats... so to speak.
While this movie is supposedly based on the Edgar Allen Poe story,
Ligea, I think the link is so distant that the producer should probably have left the reference
as an Easter egg rather than trying to sell the movie as a modern adaptation.
With regards to the cast, Sofya Skya is suitably menacing and somehow manages to make
Kaitlin Doubleday appear homely by comparison... which is tough to do. Doubleday,
to her own credit, does a very convincing job with the last half hour of the film - which will make sense
when you see it. Wes Bentley and Eric Roberts also do a great job, but
let's face it, you watch horror movies for the scream queens, not the heroic
boyfriends with a stiff upper lip...
Overall, a delightful little horror movie if you don't expect too
much from it.
Movie to Skip: Starship Troopers 3: Marauder
This is kind of a crappy movie, and I really don't recommend it when there are such better options out there -- even Casper Van Dien films! But... it's still ok for guilty pleasure purposes if you've unsuccessfully tried to stalk Jolene Blalock, or there is just absolutely nothing else that catches your eye.
