The Ghosts of Monday

To ''the bad luck hotel'', most surtainly an experience weve all been dragged into once upon your lifetime, a hotel with bad vibes and bad omens , because the real estate of land, or as they call it in the mediterranean area, an ''imobillien'' or hypobank offers, where rinsed and caved out on an ancient gravesite, making the sleeping spirits of mortals wake up in anger, full of revenging vibes...just like a ghost...

this is not a spoiler of the plot, rather a thinking of my tank what the makers of this antiscare horror movie, with sudden flashes of sound and glimpses of something. Its a cheap financial project happening in a tv-series pace and style, and at the end you feel just as stupid as the caracters why you entered the show.

So ''let there be ghosts'', i do believe in the phenom,enon, but not in this bluesued shoe like highbrow circles of human kind. Its not scary, romantic, nor funny if youre in for that. A weak try, go somewhere else for your holidays thinks the grumpy old man.

The title should have been the entire review but as i am forced to write more about this trainwreck, so i shall.

Every cast member cannot act themselves out of a petri dish. Made for tv random movie has 10 times the talent that is used here. Every word is flat, literally read off a piece of paper. Faces are frozen in some i don't want to be here daze; dialogue itself is pitiful and the voices and even accents are annoying. They are just annoying; no other way to put it here. Every single thing about every person in this movie is annoying and bad.

So maybe well there is a story here to make up for it.. nope. Maybe something happens that keeps you engaged.. nope.

Just skip this. Save yourself. It has no redeeming features whatsoever. I was so petrified I could not even select the worst actor of the year. It all became a blur and i wished i were a ghost so i can hoover myself out of this through the nearest wall. Viewer beware.

To call this film rubbish, would be insultive to the term rubbish. This film is 1 hour and 17 minutes of pure bilge. Directed with a plot that seems to be made up, take by take, shot by shot. This 'stinker' features some supremely wooden performances by a group of rank amateurs who run the whole emotional and acting gamut from A to B. They should not give up their day jobs! The plot seems to have stolen its scenes (and executed them very badly) from the Shining, from Ghost Ship and from a myriad of hack and slash Z-list productions. The plot stinks, the actors stink, the production stinks. Confine this bilge to the 'crapper' and don't waste a minute of your time trying to endure it!

Lighting: atmospheric 5/5

Plot: It could've been better. The story itself has potential but the delivery is quite awkward.

Acting: First 15 minutes was nice because it's full of mystery then comes the awkward and cliche acting to the point it was too funny. I really laughed in the cinemas (not trying to insult) because of the awkwardness is so beyond my comprehension.

You can already tell who's the antagonist and what's going on without even thinking.

Impact: No impact at all, even at the climax of the story gave me a laugh.

Sound: they use the "horror" sound too much to the point it doesn't scare the audience anymore or keep them on their toes.

The verdict: Story could've been better, Awkward delivery, acting and camera angles especially when they emphasize the antagonists.

Started well - establishied an eerie, claustrophobic atmosphere and there was some interesting character interactions BUT thereafter character development suddenly stopped leaving one not caring about any of them. The plot was lost and replaced by mindless gory violence (which is a plus if you like mindless gory violence but I do not). When the gore was (more or less) done, the resolution of the story was superficial and unconvincing. And that just about sums up the whole thing. Julian Sands was wasted. Even his prodigious skill as an actor could not rescue this enterprise. I hope the less well-known members of the cast find more fulfilling roles in future enterprises.