Aghast

Rating: 2/10 (12 January 2011)

Was this supposed to be a horror story? Yes, I was sat there squirming on my seat, but through embarrassment. My impression of the production is that there's 2 directors in charge. One who's pretty capable and another overseeing the monster/crowd scenes. The second one is a very camp choreographer attempting to create his own Michael Jackson's Thriller video without the music. The crowd/group scenes looked pure theatre rather than cinema, and sooo many goth actors minus the makeup but with hair and emo faces. There's even one or two post-apocalyptic punks in there. And the group acting... "come on dahhhlings, lets try to be a tree" The scene I really choked with laughter over was where Rose was heading for room 111 and had to traverse a group of faceless, gray, uniformed nurses. They'd been instructed to twitch convulsively, which was certainly excellent amateur dramatics stuff, and they all advertised a possibility that the production company had received a free job lot from Wonderbra. If the overall style had been camp, then I'd have classed this as a "cult movie", but with the mixture as it is I'll class it as awful and not bother watching it again.