Dreadful

Rating: 1/10 (24 June 2008)

Boring, predictable, churned out and utterly unenjoyable. You've seen it all before. You know exactly what will happen and not one second of it is enjoyable. Not even just as gore-fun. It makes me want to slap love-film in the face for not warning us when we hired it. The characters are the usual group of clichés whining on angstily so that you wish the monsters would come and kill them all off. But then they do, and you are further bored to death by their wittering on in some ridiculous vampirese language. Special effects fans needn't bother either; it's all ropey CGI and boring cliché costumes. If you want a good horror, turn to asia. The original version of The Grudge shows this up as the mass produced tripe it is. If you want a bad horror, turn to Amicus or Hammer. At least the likes of Dr Phibes and Psychomania are fun to watch no matter how awful they are.