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If you view this as a major Hollywood film (like it was supposed to be), then yeah it's not very good. But if you watch it as if it's a Sci-Fi (or some other TV network) movie, then it's kind of alright. I was entertained enough to keep watching until the end, at least. There are plenty of funny parts, and some of them are even intentional. This is the kind of movie you watch at 1am when everybody else is asleep, eating some leftover pizza. But if you paid more than $1 to see it, you paid too much.

I put this on without knowing what it was or anything about it. One look at the runtime - 1:27:00, and I figured oh, it's going to be some low-budget Sci-Fi movie junk. And yeah, that's what it looks like the entire time. Sure, some stars you've heard of are in it, but that doesn't mean anything. A job's a job. Then pretty quickly came the closing credits: "A Francis Ford Coppola film" - my jaw dropped. Metaphorically.

It's like AI was told to write a David Lynch film and given a bunch of random elements to stitch together. A haunted clock tower. A biker kid named "Flamingo" (yeah). Vampires. Edgar Allen Poe. None of it makes much cohesive sense. There are definitely some entertaining bits (sometimes intentionally, other times not) here, but you have to wade through the cheesy dialogue, cheesy script, and cheesy special effects (yes that's a lot of cheese). If you're down to see a weird movie that is bad/good, then this might be for you. It's not good, but I'm glad I saw it.

Well it's better than the third one, but that's not saying much. You can tell from the start that at least this isn't going to be stupid convoluted nonsense (like Scream 3 was) but it really starts to drag in the middle. All the tropes are there, and at least there's a bit of a coherent plot. Unfortunately, it's just not very interesting. One of the rules of a good slasher movie is to have the right blend of scares, seriousness, and funny moments. But this isn't very scary and even the laughs are few. I guess I could recommend this if you've seen the other movies and you have nothing better to do.