Lair

This started out as a promising horror movie. I love supernatural, demonic movies, so I was excited. It quickly went to hell, pardon the pun. The actors must be praised: for the script that they were cursed with, they did great. The acting was really good. But the writing? My goodness. Who did what? Why? No motivation, no clear villain, the time sequence was totally out of order...why? Just why? The last scene tries to explain the movie, but it does not: rather, it fools the audience, and I do not like that. There is a big difference between a well-executed plot twist, and just fooling the audience to cover bad writing. Concept? Great. Acting? Great. Writing? Terrible.

At the time of writing, over 3,000 people have given this film a 10/10 rating, which is one of the most blatant attempts at rigging an IMDB rating I have ever seen. Nothing about this film merits more than a 5/10. It's not very well written, and the acting is decidedly mediocre and unconvincing. Oded Fehr is only in it briefly and his dialogue is undecipherable, but he's still billed as the 'star' for obvious marketing reasons. The direction is amateurish. The ideas here are not great. Kudos for having a same-sex couple (even if they seem to hate each other) without making an issue of it, but there's little to recommend in this film.

I just don't get the unnatural reactions of actors in this movie. It feels like they're trying too hard. Playing to the camera in stead of being the caracter. Their reactions to things that happen and the dialog is very unconvincing. It just feels like they are acting. A bit like stage performances. Nothing in this movie impressed me. I barely finished watching it. Don't bother.

So the story and the lines are really bland, and terrible. The premise seemed like a good one, but it just didn't quite work for me. Some of the characters were just plain dull.

But some of the deaths are really over the top and hilarious though, in a bad film kind of way. But that's where these stars are coming from with my rating.

Well Corey Johnson is always worth a watch, a consummate professional as is Oded Fehr. There the positives end to be honest, you don't even get much of Fehr. It all falls apart when the afternoon TV fodder turn up, 3 women who cannot act and some ankle-biter. The lesbian romance is once again only there for the usual sensationalism and is absolutely pointless. As for the word horror, well it doesn't really happen. The ending will have you rolling your eyes.