| RATING: | 40% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
Ridiculous horror movie that simply uses various cliches from other - better - movies: Running Man, Time Machine, Evil Dead, Battle Royale, et al, and then proceeds to parody them as if that is enough to compensate for the rampant lack of imagination on show.
This is meta-horror at its worst in never presenting anything truly scary to move or involve us in the central character’s plight. This lack of basic humanity is not satisfactorily replaced by weak humor, wooden acting and a feeble script. The tacit admission that most makers of horror movies possess nothing left to offer the world is the real horror here.
Horror movies have gone up their own fundaments ever since the clever trope of the Blair Witch Project told us horror movies had no more to say about the human condition. The characterization is as weak as the style is strong. All the characters speak the same idiom as if they were the robotic facets of a single person and, no matter what happens, the style remains the same; increasing the monotony of the occurrences and the blandness of the special effects.
The propitiatory nature of White culture would have been a fine theme in this themeless, plotting-by-numbers nonsense that now makes little sense because the filmmakers here have no real idea of either the manner nor the purpose of sacrifice.
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