Friday, September 20, 2013

A Dead Calling

D: Ok, don't let the movie cover or the cheesy name fool you. This movie leaves you wondering...that's it. It just leaves you wondering. Let me set the stage. And yes, spoiler alert!
A news lady's life is set off track when her fiancĂ© is killed during a home invasion. She goes home to her family to morn and to get on with her life. She goes back to work, only to be assigned to investigate a house that is the scene of a sadistic murder. And you guessed it, it has ghosts. Surprise!
This movie looks like it was done by some senior film student. It was all shaking in the beginning and the angles didn't seem to make sense. The acting seemed forced, the storyline was predictable, various visual effects were amateur at best, the list goes on and on. It had potential, but it belly flopped, hard. And just to give you a major spoiler alert...the killer of the fiancĂ©, they never said if they found him! Why have something like that in the plot if they are not going to work with it?! Its a small gap but still, annoying. End of opinion. Next!


N: Lets investigate and take a closer inspection of this flic. Though I might add that I am in no way a true reporter like the main character Rachel who has become a rather good news reporter finds herself is faced with a life altering situation. Rachel must discover her true identity and rekindle her new life, which leads her to an abandoned house. A haunted house no less. As the film continued I became less interested in this haunted house as it became clear that we would never learn the true reasons of why this house became haunted. We would never fully gain an understanding of why the killer became such a sadistic murder and other than the raw low budget camera shots I asked myself why I had even bothered.

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