Could Have Been Better

Rating: 4/10 (28 April 2006)

With what they had to work with (budget included), this film should have been directed by David Fincher (Se7en)written by Andrew Kevin Walker (same) with cinematography by Paul Laufer (The Cell). Or even the director, screenwriter, and producer of The Cell. This film takes a fascinating criminal nut-job serial killer flick and turns it into I Know What You Did Last Summer. For crying out loud, it really would have been scarier by bringing mortal fear into the equation rather than distaste for scenes of slow death and dismemberment. This has the flavor of a made-for-TV movie, only I'd have to say those have more interesting crime dramas. If I combined Darkness Falls with a cop show on ABC mixed with a bad reality-TV style show, I'd get Saw II. I only watched it because of the spoof in Scary Movie 4. I think the spoof was better. Twisted Pictures should be replaced by Dark Castle Entertainment. They made House on Haunted Hill in 1999. The characters in Saw 2 did not behave in a natural way when locked together. I can only say the actors I could respect were the cops and the son. Also, they did the female cop's hair so stylishly perfect. I gotta say only Nicole Kidman has hair like that for work. But that lady went on a stake out in style, so it seemed a bit unrealistic she'd have that fancy hair-do to go catch a serial killer.