Darkness, Car sickness, Parkinsons? Superhype

Rating: Null/10 (2 November 1999)

Well, having someone who seems to suffer severely from advanced Parkinson shoot a grainy movie in near total darkness made people experience antiperistalsis: the carsickness kind though. Of course I went for the superhype, which worked, and a lot of credit to the inventors of it. It's an end of the century WWW-hype succesfully marketed and exploited, no problem with that. But... cinematography? horror? scary? I don't think so. Please generation nixers, do not compare this movie to Tex 1, that movie was innovation (capital i), George Romero was innovation. I do agree with a lot of horrorfans that when mainstream Hollywood discovered that horror=$$, it lost most of its underground, non-PC avant la lettre, character. But, supposedly going back to the roots with this 8mm handycam simply will not do for me (nor any of my friends, for that matter).