A Different Kind Of Slasher...

Rating: 6/10 (1 July 2009)

I wasn't expecting much popping this movie into my DVD tray. I was surprised to find this film has quite a lot to offer. A group of students board a plane to Paris, before they take off a teen, by the name of Alex Browning (Devan Sawa) has a vision, a vision that involves the plane exploding mid-flight and incinerating all it's passengers. When he awakes from his trance he rushes off the plane taking 7 other passengers with him. They are forced to stay at the port and watch in horror as Alex's vision becomes an all so real reality. Scared, confused, and curious, the students and their families slowly begin to return to a somewhat normal life, that is until the remaining survivors start to drop off like flies. Death has returned for them and with a vengeance!
I have a weird thing about kids dying in movies even if they are 17-18 years old, but plot intrigued me and really made me think, for a horror or even "slasher" film there is a lot under the surface. I liked the idea that death isn't a force but more of a person and a mind, that can think and analyze problems. Down to the bone though this film is just a slasher dressed up in fancy clothes. Characters are hacked of in a very violent and gory fashion. Instead of an actual killer, there is again the idea of death. Don't take that last statement negatively though, the movie was very well done and I was surprised how well written it was and even the acting. But the real treat here is for the gore fans not many films are released lately that don't have death styles executed before in repetitive fashion. Scenes throw winks here and there for a chuckle or false lead into thinking a character is knocked off in a certain way, a pattern that repeats and get old after awhile and I fear is repeated in a poor fashion. A few of the death scenes are a bit far fetched, but this isn't a movie where your meant to think. Not only are the death scenes creative but they may make you think twice to check and see if your shaving blade is rusty.
6/10