Horror fans may find more use for Dark Corners than a mainstream movie audience. In a world with The Hills Have Eyes and Hostel, however, it’s hard to believe horror fans would find what Dark Corners has to offer worth their time.
I still don’t believe that Dark Corners was written to be the film it becomes. That’s the only explanation I have for Birch’s association with the project. (Unless, of course, she needed money for heroin or crack.) If I’m wrong, then the film fails for another, more dire reason.
I personally like my trash to actually be trashy. Dark Corners doesn’t have the humorous bend, the subversiveness or the self-deprecation it would take to enjoy a movie as bad as this one. I hope for the sake of first-time director Ray Gower that it is a producer problem and not a writer/director problem. Otherwise, Gower will be directing the morning news in Idaho instead of making another movie.
Dark Corners is now available on DVD and features a director’s commentary track.
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