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I don't even really know where to begin describing how god-awful this film was. It was so bad that I eventually even got bored with cracking jokes about how bad it was.
To start with, the back-story relates to a mythologised and wildly exaggerated version of the Waverly Hills Sanatorium, where victims of the fictitious 'white plague' were confined in the 1920s. 63,000 people died at the facility and doctors performed bizarre experiments on inmates in a desperate attempt to find a cure. A 500ft tunnel was constructed for the transportation of dead bodies, to hide the appalling death-toll from the public. Many of the urban legends surrounding Waverly Hills are incorporated into the film.
Having thought up this promising setting, the film's writers then opted to churn out a fairly standard haunted house story: Five really hot (and scantily clad) chicks have to spend the night in the Sanatorium as part of an elaborate practical joke/hazing ritual, which goes horribly wrong when people start dying. Not very original, but the movie still could have been a lot of fun. The costume and set design was pretty cool too.
Unfortunately, the combination of bad writing; bad direction; a cast with all the acting ability of a spanner (and who all look pretty much alike); an incoherent plot (I'm still not entirely sure what happened in the end), the fact that it wasn't remotely scary; the fact that I'm pretty sure it only actually contained about 30 minutes of original footage, which they kept re-using; and a complete lack of exploitative sex-scenes, make it a total dead-loss from an entertainment point of view.
The only thing I found remotely scary about the film was the guy who played the Sanatorium's head doctor (can't remember his name, and can't be bothered looking it up). It wasn't that he put in a particularly good performance. It's just that he bears an eerie resemblance to a young Richard E Grant. A young Richard E Grant, with a Southern accent, who can't act. It was like watching Grant do a bad impression of himself.
I'm a great fan of the so-bad-it's-good, video-nasty school of horror films, and rented it *because* it had a picture of five busty women in negligees on the cover, and even I hated it. The worst thing is, it could have been soooo good.
The acting is awful, the plot is ridiculous, the scares have been used a million times before.
The worst part about this is it's barely a movie. The whole thing is nothing but cuts. I couldn't find one full scene in the whole running time. I suppose the director was just trying to make everything look scary and cool, but it just ends up looking extremely sloppy.
Amateur, and not worth anyone's time.
Ignore the BD review. It's way way off. Just look at the other user reviews.
It's not even bad-fun, just uninteresting and poorly though out.
Don't watch this movie.
Posted By: PromNight2008 at 8:37pm, September 7, 2008
I watched this last night on the Sci-Fi Channel, after having seen it quite a while ago and not remembering anything about it. Well, I deeply, wholeheartedly regret the decision to re-watch it. The beginning was very good (until about the two-minute mark), then it seemed to drop off and crash to its death on some jagged rocks (to create an image of just how bad it declined) from there, transforming into one of the most horribly structured messes I've ever seen. Absolutely god-awful.
I have to say that the fact the BD review gave this a good review has almost completely destroyed any faith i had in them to know good horror. I mean i usually trust the reviews on here. THis is without a doubt one of the worst movies ever made. The girl who wrote the review needs to be more objective and forget her visit to the actual location in the movie. The movie has no script, is awfully edited to the point of complete trash, and seriously, i couldn't explain how bad this movie is. It's not scary. It's stupid. It has bad acting(which was actually the best thing about it), it has virtually no real dialog, it's ridiculous, and i just kept asking myself after an hour of watching, does this thing ever start. It's like watching a two hour trailer of a movie. Seriously. That's how chopped up the dialog and scenes are.
The reviewer who gave this a good review needs to see some serious films immediately. This is an awful film. One skull would be too much. Note: If you've ever seen the dreadful "Ring around the roses" movie...this is pale in comparison to that trash. These guys should never ever touch a film again. Ever. Maybe they can edit with supervision. But the movie is complete garbage. And I can't even say one thing about it that would make me think otherwise.
Seriously. You almost should watch it to know that you should never trust this reviewer again. You'll see why.
