Unspeakable

The title is totally correct.

I'll say up front I am not a horror film fan. This film was not advertised as such; the description said it was about a woman trying to get a guilty man to confess. I'm a fan of Dina Meyer's, plus it had Jeff Fahey and Dennis Hopper.

What a bloody mess. I don't know what passes for blood in movies, but whatever it is, probably 90% of the budget went for it. That and raw liver. Yuck.

The story concerns some sort of brain machine that shows thoughts on a computer, that is used to study this superman, sort of the devil incarnate, who can exert mind control and is also psychic. One wonders why the Meyer character would have anything to do with this guy. Supposedly the woman realizes they are alike. Talk about bad writing. Personally I didn't see it.

Jeff Fahey plays the governor and a former lover of Meyer - actually, he isn't, but that comes out in this story. Back in the '70s, when Jeff Fahey was on One Life to Live, I stepped into an apartment house elevator and there he was. Very sweet, beautiful blue eyes. Twenty years later, I was invited to a reception by the artist Peter Max. As I stepped into the elevator to leave, a laughing, possibly in his cups man and someone else crashed into the elevator. Jeff Fahey. So we must have had some elevator karma.

That wasn't enough to get me through this movie. Trust me.

With the star-power involved in this movie (Dennis Hopper, Lance Henriksen, Dina Meyer, and Jeff Fahey!), you might be tempted to sit down and watch it.

Resist that temptation.

Hopper does his best William Shatner imitation, only louder with a dubious "southern" accent. Henriksen seems to be in a walking coma, presumably since discovering what he'd gotten himself into here. Meyer's psychologist is "caring" to the point of inducing nausea. Fahey, unlike in some of his past efforts, will make you believe that trees can talk.

That brings us to writer / actor Pavan Grover, who comes across like a male model who wandered onto the set. He plays "Mowatt'", a serial killer with psychic powers. Powers I say! Alas, he looks too much like Rambo in an Elvis wig to be taken seriously.

UNSPEAKABLE is unendurable, inexcusable, and probably fattening...

It's hysterical how so many people have found it to praise this crapola so highly and have the gall to accuse people with OBJECTIVE negative opinions of having some kind of personal problem with this Pavan Grover guy.

I'm a big fan of Lance Henrikson and Hopper. I even fully admit Pavan Grover demonstrated clear acting talent and ability. It's just too bad he didn't decide to stick with what he is good at. He would have been hard pressed to pull a less competent and "Unpraiseworthy" screenplay out of his behind.

The problem with this movie began and ended with that ridiculous screenplay.

It was simply a nonsensical mess, with terrible dialogue that branched out in tons of directions with no development, focus, rhyme or reason.

If cinematography, production value, quality of actors, sound and special effects were all that mattered then it would be a good movie.

On the one hand this movie was weird to the point of being lame. But on the other it will affect you to some degree. If that's its sole purpose, then it's highly successful to that degree. It's somewhat a tough movie to watch, it's not light hearted at all, and it's pretty graphic at moments. Much of what you see is unknown or unexplained, but I to some degree like a movies that keep you / leave you guessing rather than explaining everything and throwing in the kitchen sink as well.

The acting we so so. I rented it mainly because of Hopper and while he was interesting he was not what I expected. While he played a crazed warden, we wasn't the 'eccentric' genius of the movie Speed. I guess I missed that a bit as he just came off as a filthy talking warden and little else. Dina looked beautiful as ever and put forth an okay performance, she's much more of a honey in this than Starship troopers, but she's not entirely believable in her character either, so… Then there was Lance, playing the same old monotone ham and mayo on white… I guess it's his trademark as I've seen little else in the way of acting from him. So, he lived up to his persona and he did justice to it once again. Paven, who played the main serial killer did an effective job, though he was too eye candy in terms of the ladies (in my opinion) to really come off a scary serial killer. Little too much of a baby face pretty boy, but I guess that was the idea. At times he was creepy I guess, but I found the images & graphic violence to be the main catalyst for the dysfunctional spookiness of the movie.

The movie really gets off on trying to suck you into this sick / genius's mind and freak you out. It does the job even at the expense of coming off a little corny. Though being that Jesse Mowatt's ability's / powers are not really explained, it leaves much to the imagination and really depends on you're ability for abstract thought. If you don't have any, the movie will probably come off as stupid & sick. Overall I like movies like this to some degree and while overall I certainly took something away from this movie, I won't be watching it again, or anytime real soon for that matter. It's one of those movies that I only have the stomach to watch once. Would I recommend it? Hmm, tough question… I would recommend it to people who like freaky / supernatural movies with a stomach for nasty stuff and with a tolerance for B rated acting, script & budgets. I'd rate it more as a horror / thriller than anything else. Otherwise, don't bother as it will leave you with nightmares if nothing else… 6.5 / 10 for the weirdo's out there like me who get off on this kind of crud. 2 / 10 for everyone else as it will likely dig into you're precious sleep cycle

This is what you get if you have some second-league actors (Henriksen, Fahey, Hopper) and a mentally retarded screenwriter (or American, or American and mentally retarded). I thought it'll be better.

It wasn't. Nothing made sense: bug that got into Hopper's brain from nowhere, a prisoner that should be shot on the spot instead of being repeatedly thrown to the ground and mauled, hallucinations, sexual fascinations, litres of red paint, surviving the electric chair just to be finally shot by the key female character... As someone said here: "unspeakably bad film". Bad with capital, bold, red 'B'. 'B' as in 'budget'.