Horror (V)
| release date | May 27 2003 |
| studio | Elite |
| director | Dante Tomaselli |
| writer | Dante Tomaselli |
| starring | Kreskin, Lizzy Mahon, Danny Lopes, Vincent Lamberti, Christie Sanford |
| rating | R |
| tagline | Expect nothing less than sheer... Horror |
| site | horrorthemovie.com/index.html |
| trailer 1 | Trailer #1 |
1 Comments
I don’t know why, but I was expecting this to be an old release, something perhaps British, from the 70′s maybe. Not so, though the style is surely not familiar to fans of major release 00′s horror.
Most certainly shot on a very slim budget, this film makes up for it with a completely insane script and very strange storytelling. I was trying to grasp exactly what was goin on at every second of this film. I could watch this 100 times more and would still not be able to piece together even the order of events taking place, even by the end.
I can only imagine the title was derived from the fact that this film incorporates aspects of almost every facet of horror film making imaginable. There’s demons, ghosts, zombies, monsters, psychos, and even flying pumpkins. There’s murders, possessions, hallucinations (plenty), magic, you name it. It’s as if they tried to cram everything about horror films into this short running time.
I will give it credit for legitimately freaking me out on a couple of occasions. Some instances take you by such surprise, it’s as if you’ve been robbed of your own forsight completely. When a film becomes this unpredictable it really steals away your comfort zone, so that when something truly surprising and frightening comes at you your all the less prepared for it, which can be very unnerving.
And it’s left me entirely baffled. I have no idea how to review this. All I know is I will absolutely watch this film again and again, attempting to put just a tiny fraction of the pieces together.
Ignore the small budget and a handful of mediocre acting, and you will be in for a fuckin’ trippy ride. Just don’t expect anything to make sense in the end.
A piece of art!!
“Horror” the 2nd film from Italian-American director Dante Tomaselli, cousin of director Alfred Sole (best-known for the 70s classic “Alice, Sweet Alice”), is a feast for the eyes: the movie is packed with surreal and remarkably cool-looking images (flying demon-pumpkins, evil goats), terrific cinematography and many beautiful, highly atmospheric settings that reminded me strongly of 80s Italo-horror from Lucio Fulci or Umberto Lenzi.
Sadly, everything else about it is pretty crappy: the characters are all super-annoying, most of the acting is extremely weak and the dialogue largely sucks. The plot is pointless and makes no sense whatsoever, the script is an immensely flawed and badly-paced mess, there’s hardly any tension or suspense, the editing is often pretty poor and at the end we get to see the absolute lamest-looking zombies since “Zombie Lake”.
Could have been a really great horror film if made in the 80s with a better script, more talented actors and a more experienced director, f.e. his cousin
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