fpw Wrote:Pretty sick and relentlessly grim. Don't see this unless you're a true-blue gorehound. Even then, think twice, because it foists a cliched twist on you toward the end that's supposed to give it some sort of lame existential cachet. It doesn't. Your reaction won't be, "Cool!" It'll be, "WTF?" Except for the relentless gore, the first three-quarters is a shameless rip-off of Dean Koontz's novel Intensity. Dean could have brought suit, but after seeing it he decided he didn't want his name associated with it in any way.
FF= 7
Marc B. Wrote:I remember Tony lambasting this one when it came out. His comments were pretty much the same.
' Wrote:the first three-quarters is a shameless rip-off of Dean Koontz's novel Intensity.
saynomore Wrote:P.S. I wrote a similar story when I was a kid (called Cabin Fever, about a hermit in a cabin in the high mountains who is hunting and storing for the coming winter: twist ending--he turns out to be an escaped patient in a mental hospital who has been killing nurses and other patients and storing their corpses in his room where he has a calender with a picture of a cabin in the high mountains in it--gasp!).
fpw Wrote:I'd forgotten Tony's review -- 7 months is like 7 years on this board. I saw the unrated version, so the gore factor here was a few notches higher than the US theatrical version.Speaking of a filmmaker/screenwriter cheating... I felt the same way with November (w/ Courtney Cox).
Yes, it cheats. Big time.