Reborn

Odd and mild Carrie/Frankenstein-lite story about a stillborn child brought back to life by an electrical storm, who then goes in search of her actress mother. Tess can control electricity and has the power to use it to kill people.

Prolific actress Barbara Crampton plays Lena, who had the baby (Tess) at 19, and Tess has come looking for her 16 years later. Crampton is a good actress, but even she can't convince as a 35 year old. Equally, what has Tess been doing for the first 16 years of her life? It seems she has been living with the creepy morgue attendant who abducted her, but it is surprising her powers don't seem to have made an impact during those formative years.

The film is lifted by Kayleigh Gilbert who is very good as Tess. Wide-eyed and slightly eccentric, Gilbert's performance actually rises above the material. My score is 6 out of 10.

This is your typical mid day movie for bored housewives.

It is cliched and nothing we have not seen before using the Carrie model but it does have some good acting and the addition of Kayleigh Gibert does add some attraction for me as she is quite a stunner so an extra star for the eye candy but it is still a below average 4/10 Hatchets from me!

I got to say I wasn't getting alot of adrenaline the acting was mediocre and the plot wasn't so strong I mean this is supposed to be a horror film and horror films are supposed to have jumpscares and there wasn't any what a pity also the ending was corny also the teenage girl in this movie should've been in therapy apparently she didn't get any kind of therapy but that reminds me of times where kids who were abused their whole life most of them grow up to be very aggressive and somewhat evil it's true. And then there are some people who had really good lives turn into the scum of the earth that's why the Chinese created the yin yang symbol because there's a little evil in all things good and there's a little good in all things evil so everyone on this planet has a choice to be good or evil.

I caught this movie's premier on British TV and have to say that compared to the bulk of 21st Century horror drivel this one wasn't too bed. It stars 80's Scream Queen Barbara Crampton (she still looks good) as an actress who gave birth to a stillborn baby. Only that baby did not actually die and she became some sort of Carrie, only with power over electricity. Kayleigh Gilbert played the part of Tess well, but I suspect she was a few years older than the 16 year old that she was playing. There are a couple of decent jump scenes (one is a complete rip off of Carrie), the plot was engaging and fairly original, plus at under 80 minutes the film is well paced.

As horror movies go, this isn't terrible but it doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to picture the final scene. Only reason I watched this was to tick off another Barbara Crampton movie. Avoid unless very bored.