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***1/2 of ****
Length: 98 minutes
Credits:
Writers:
Jeffrey Reddick (story & screenplay)
James Wong (screenplay)
Glen Morgan (screenplay)
Director: James Wong
Cast:
Devon Sawa: Alex Browning
Ali Larter: Clear Rivers
Kerr Smith: Carter Horton
Kristen Cloke: Valerie Lewton
The score was quite good. The string instruments set a dark mood that left you with an appropriately curious foreboding. Very similar music was playing on the radio when I left and drove down an unfamiliar dark and windy road. I changed the radio station.
The over dramatizing of the littlest things was key to setting the mood and the tone for the rest of the movie. Unlike the typical teenage horror flick, this film kept you thinking about what was really happening. This movie has the most Rube Goldbergish deaths I have ever seen. It does serve to lighten the mood though. You find yourself cheering for the smarter than normal movie kids to succeed in cheating Death, yet also wanting to vote for Death to achieve her design in some particular way. We never really know that Death's design was not for those end results. Sure, there were interruptions, but in the end, who knows! The theme throughout of electricity, sparks, leaking fuel, flame, and then explosion kept the movie solid in it's surrealism in a way that helps make this film really stand out. Something like a visual poem. The pattern in which the characters realize what is happening keeps up with the needs of the audience for the story to evolve and to continue engaging us. It is a good entertaining movie to see as long as you are not easily grossed out.:)
- "I'll see you soon!"
Soundtrack:
"Rocky Mountain High" - John Denver
"Into the Void" - Nine Inch Nails
"When I Die" - Joe90
"All The Candles in The World" - Jane Siberry