The shooting is obnoxious -- it is all handheld and all deliberately shaky. I could have lived with that, but when combined with incompetent editing, it is too much to take. The director and editor appear to have been going for a fast, slick, stylized, MTV-esque look, but the result is just sloppy. Snap cuts in the middle of a scene -- plain dialogue scenes, no less -- lay waste to the proscenium arch, make no sense, and are sometimes just a mirror image of the previous shot. Many of the cuts are even made in the middle of a sentence. Between the insane cutting and the overload on ramp shots, I got dizzy and nauseated and nearly threw up.
The echoing audio throughout the film indicates it was all recorded with a shotgun mike, and takes the viewer out of whatever experience there is to be had. All the death scenes are shot in darkness, so all one sees is a body drenched in blood, there aren't even any further makeup effects used. When not shooting in the dark, the film uses natural light almost exclusively — not a good choice for a night shoot.
There are no special features on the disc, unless you count “widescreen presentation,” “2.0 stereo audio,” and a “stills gallery” as special features. The filmmaker does; I do not.
Article comments
1 - john
Worst movie i have ever seen in my life and i live in phoenix where it takes place. Never ever watch this movie and tell everyone else not to watch it. the director/producer is a douche
2 - Dudley
Wasnt Tori Spelling the blonde wearing the wig??? I didnt know she was in this movie. i couldve made a better movie blind folded. i'd rather watch my cat take a dump in the litter box then watch one more second of this horrific movie. ketchup would've looked better than their "U-Bet" cherry syrup. all in all, this movie made me sick and gave me puckering ass syndrome aka PAS.
3 - Mike
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