just crap from beginning to end

Rating: 1/10 (31 October 2004)

i'll tick this off on my fingers, something i like to do when a film sucks so horrifically that i find myself shouting at the television in frustration.
yes, i saw it at home.
anyhow.
1. ripoff/remake of seven (i refuse to type that title the way i should), another crap 'chiller'.
2. cary elwes--please stop acting.
3. cops. you have guns. the guy in the death machine? stop screaming at each other unnecessarily and do something about blowing the thing apart. oh, well.
4. everything in this film is predicated on people behaving in the stupidest possible fashion, doing things they would never do. i understand that this is the basis of some great horror films, but this is not a great horror film.
5. ending? you'll see it coming a mile away. anyone who doesn't should turn in their 'movie viewer's deluxe' card and go back to watching love, actually or some crikey like that.
6. cinematography--people, stop shooting movies in this way. it is not fun to look at, it is not conducive to an exciting filmic experience, it is style (bad) with nothing behind it. i grew up with mtv, but i don't watch it anymore, so new directors--stop taking your cues from it, thanks.
7. leigh whannel is not a good writer or actor--thanks for that big fat ego, sticking yourself in there, guy.
if you want to see good horror--and this is not it, despite what the publicity machine wants you to believe--then stop giving money to people like this. please. go rent the original Texas chainsaw massacre or dawn of the dead or shivers instead. anything but this crap.
happy halloween!