Resurrection Mary

Resurrection Mary is pegged as a romantic thriller.

Let me immediately clarify that it isn't, its a horror and a poor attempt at one at that.

Loosely and teased to be based on the bloody mary mythology combined with the iconic white lady a man is tormented by this apparition and he may need to make the ultimate sacrifice to save his other half.

Sadly the story makes very little sense and at no point does it even go anywhere.

It all looks and sounds the part but the lead manages one pained facial expression for the entire film and only the ghost stands out as competent.

Dull, lifeless, jumbled mess of a film.

The Good:

Decent antagonist

Surprisingly good soundtrack

The Bad:

Joe Estevez

I'm not such a great fan of the thriller genre but somehow ended up watching this movie.

The first thing that hit me was how bad the acting was. All of the performances were lackluster and there are a few movies I've seen with worse performances than this.

The storyline is supposed to be based on one of the greatest ghost stories in the US but the movie has nothing to show for it. Storyline is very weak with a plot that could have been so much more if some kind of effort had been put in.

Overall, best avoided. I wish I could have.

I wanted to like this and hoped it had to do with the actual ghost story/legend of the real Resurrection Mary, but I found this quite boring. I gave it 30 minutes, not much was happening with it, nothing to draw me in. Bad acting (although not the worst I've seen), and flashing around from one scene to another. Not sure if it was visions or hallucinations or what. But I found it annoying. It also seemed like the quality/atmosphere was that of some sort of made for TV movie, except for the female nudity in the beginning of course. I shut it off after 30 minutes, I couldn't take anymore. I feel bad giving a movie stars when I haven't seen the entire thing, but I don't want to watch the rest of it because of how boring it was.

Good movie. I liked the story line and the characters, although the acting does feel a bit lackluster at times. The graphic novel concept driving the film is pretty cool, and it makes sense considering the amount of stories that have already been told about Resurrection Mary. I heard the budget for this film was only something like $200K, which surprised me considering how well a lot of the shots look. I saw Sean Michael Beyer's last film called Down The P.C.H., another low budget film. This film is a lot different from that, but both these projects show that you don't need a ton of money to make a decent-looking film, and I give Sean a lot of credit for that.

Those looking for a horror/slasher film will be disappointed by this film. It's much more of a drama that focuses on developing its characters. This is done especially well with the main character Jeff. Overall, Resurrection Mary is a pretty good movie, and worth checking out.

You'd think that I could keep the different versions of RM straight in my head, but a "certain on-line service that stream videos like this one" has been mixing up the images and the production years. Anyway, this version is not nearly as bad as the other version, which has Mr. Estevez in it (in case you need to be able to distinguish between the two). So the rule is, "If RM has a Kirkland in it, it's watchable. If it has an Estevez in it, it isn't." I hope this helps horror film fans everywhere.

Other than that, I'll just point out that it's a ghost story with some average carnage in it and kind of a silly story.

Enjoy! Don't thank me now.