LITERAL REMAINS

And I quote from Amazon.com’s details of this film:

Based on true events! When a mother is pushed too far and undergoes shock therapy she breaks the realm of reality and discovers a history of family violence. An ancient spirit is awakened and no one is safe from the evil that is about to be unleashed.

While attending the Nashville Tattoo & Horror Festival a couple weeks ago, I caught a screening of this movie.  It showed at four in the afternoon; a panel of thirty-five years of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was at five.  My friends and I saw the movie.  We wished we hadn’t.  We could have gotten up and left, but we didn’t.  There is always a hope a movie will be good, or will get better as you watch it.  Shudder didn’t.

This was…yeah, it was bad.  All around, bad.  The one good thing about it was the black guy at the end who got bit.  He was good.  Had a funny line.  The one lone bright spot.  I stayed, watching it, giving it a chance.  I kept waiting for Edwin Neal’s beard to fall in the flashback scenes.  That would have been good.  It would have been something.  No such luck.

I’m sure everyone tried their best.  But it’s just not there.  It’s confusing.  The guy in the mental hospital…I just didn’t get him and his whole place in the movie.  And in one of the flashbacks, I think, from what I could tell, one slave gets killed like twice or something, right in succession.

When you are more interested in what the movie-goers sitting behind you are talking about instead of the movie, it’s a bad sign.  When it feels like an hour has passed, and it’s only been fifteen minutes,  it’s torture.

Avoid it.

0.5 out of 5
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