boydwalters-60323

Honestly ... This is such a simplistic and naive concept in the first place its unbelievable that they have strung it out to be a 90 ( boring and silly ) feature ... It is apparently based on an earlier short, but having sat through this I won't be seeking that one out ... The acting is fine, but the staging is just over confident and immature ... It is all in focus, but visually bland ... The relationships are not well thought out ... Alienation and justification of inaction seem to be the themes, but there are much better ways to communicate these themes than this ... Perhaps the director thinks its a surreal take on these ideas ... It isn't.

I'd totally forgotten about this stinker, and with good reason ... It is probably the worst of the Universal horror cycle ... Lon Chaney Jnr is absolutely terrible as usual ... The story is just cringeworthy ... The only good part of this stupidity is the last 5 minutes, that would have been a lot better if you hadn't had to cringe at the cluelessness of every minute before that ... I'm not really sure that I can get enough characters in this review to make it long enough for this place to accept, so lets just say, you should steer well clear of this dross cos it really is for completists only.

This is 90 ish minutes of celluloid that will test you endurance abilities ... It just sits there and does very little ... And what it does do is not in any way entertaining, enlightening or challengeing ... Since genre cinema has become so much more popular it has also garnered a lot of the sort of people who like to be in on any trend ... Unfortunately they are the sort of people who like to categorise this sort of thing as surreal or trippy ... Believe me ... This is NONE of those things ... This is a badly directed film and the director had no idea how to hang a narative together or create an atmosphere... If you want to waste 90 minutes of your life go ahead, but you've been warned : )