Among the Shadows

Yes I have felt embarrassed to watch it...so disgraceful acting, story, editing, clue.....it is a mystery how the could have done such a awful "movie"..... shame of you......change your job making movies and acting is not for yous.....accept it.

Half a star! Add this movie to you "Must Miss This Hot Mess" list. Unless you just dying to see Lindsay Lohan. In that case you will be a very happy unit.

This will be in the bin at Dollar Tree soon, and will be marked 50% off.

Maybe this was an attempt to establish a new category of vampire/werewolf flicks. Apparently the lead character is a combination of both (how that came to be would make a fine movie by itself). Then add lots of bizarre blends and colorization to short clips or even entire scenes, long strings of monotone dialog, and lethargic reactions by people in imminent danger - like those poor joggers. The anticipated result will be an offbeat but thought-provoking experience for viewers, something like when canvas artists replace realism with surreal imagery to stir imaginations.

Or maybe this movie really is nothing more than a horrifying train wreck.

First I should mention that I got to see this with two friends for free - if you search in the right spot and add "Lifetime movie" to the title you will find that someone has already pirated this piece of dross onto the internet.

This will never become a cult classic since it's not "awful but funny", it's just plain awful. The plot is impossible to follow, the actors are amateurish and some are downright impossible to understand, the lighting is abominable, werewolves and vampires come and go for no discernible reason, there's no continuity between scenes and . . . well I could go on but why bother.

And then there's this, what is the need of a smoke machine for an interior scene?

Since Lindsay Lohan is the only recognizable name in the cast(except maybe Charlotte Beckett), let's talk a bit about her performance:

• She delivers every line in a flat, gravely voice.
• Her eyes dart to the left and right as she reads her lines.
• I'm going to guess she blew off coming in every day after a while. In some scenes, it's obvious that they just put her in front of a green screen and spliced her in with actors who already filmed the scene without her.
• There are actually times when there's a body double who neither looks or sounds like Lohan reading her lines. BTW, this is not a bad thing since the anonymous person is a more convincing actress than Lohan.
• The only good thing is she's not in a whole lot of the film, at least for the 50 minutes or so that I managed to watch this.

Now let's talk about what's good about the film, or at least what didn't repulse me, and that would be the aforementioned Charlotte Beckett. She's pretty, she looks good in black, she's a passable actress who doesn't need to read her lines off of a large piece of markerboard. That's about it.

To sum it up, this will never be a cult favorite but it could be the final wooden stake in the heart of Lohan's career. On the other hand, that Saudi Arabian production of Lohan starring in an all female film about an American woman who comes to teach a harem about God knows what sounds intriguing (said no one, ever.)