The Dead Inside

I have to say I wanted to love this film soooooo much. Great acting, great story, great idea but I just hate musicals period!!!! I even hated West Side Story which should tell you that me giving this film a 5/10 is amazing. I loved everything about this film until that dam singing would pop up. The only time singing worked for me in a movie was when Joe Bob Briggs did the audio commentary about the Incred Strange Creatures who stopped liv......but that was from the early 60's and this is now. This movie just rocks in every department but I cannot recommend due to the musical numbers abound and I mean jaw dropping numbers. Only for the crowd that really appreciates the esoteric.

This film was highly creative and at times entertaining, but ultimately falls short of being great. The Dead Inside is a complex story of a young couple going through seemingly normal problems until the problems become surreal and supernatural . Often the hallmark of a great film is it's ability to blur the lines of classification. The problem is, in this film they aren't very blurry. It is, at times, a musical, at others a horror, sometimes a comedy and a serious drama at others. Where it goes wrong is it seems to delve too far into each area for too long making it confusing as to what the overall feeling the audience is supposed to have. I noticed the director was also the editor and I think that may be what is the biggest problem with this film. It just starts to drag on and on. The musical scenes are pretty good and the dialouge is good too, it's the seemingly endless scenes of people sitting and staring into the mirror or at the computer or at nothing. Good to great music, nice camera work (but has a very video look at times), good script, good lyrics and good acting (though not the best singing voices) just needs some serious editing.

I love musicals so for me that was awesome. It had great songs and likeable characters. Lastly, for a low budget creation, I found it to be a captivating, empathetic, horror musical.

This movie caught me off guard when looking for a random movie years ago. I watched it and was blown away. The actors are amazing and the plotline jumps from one to another... I also love the musicality in it! It's a hard to find movie but well worth it! Watch it if you get a chance!

Money makes movies says Hollywood. Sure it helps to have a shipload of cash but money makes nothing. Creative people with ideas make movies. And in this case there is about a creative idea a minute. You think you are watching a funny movie it twists left to horror, twists right again to make it a musical to take another turn to make it highly philosophical to go back to classical drama.... and never is it out of place. How weird is that? Just two people experiencing the end of the world as they know it.

Granted it is not everybody's cup of tea. So if you want a Hollywood blockbuster with a standard story you most definitely will be disappointed. The special makeup is pretty good but no limbs will be flying in this movie.

This is what history will be calling 'a classic cult movie on par with Rocky Horror'.