Reborn

I caught this movie's premier on British TV and have to say that compared to the bulk of 21st Century horror drivel this one wasn't too bed. It stars 80's Scream Queen Barbara Crampton (she still looks good) as an actress who gave birth to a stillborn baby. Only that baby did not actually die and she became some sort of Carrie, only with power over electricity. Kayleigh Gilbert played the part of Tess well, but I suspect she was a few years older than the 16 year old that she was playing. There are a couple of decent jump scenes (one is a complete rip off of Carrie), the plot was engaging and fairly original, plus at under 80 minutes the film is well paced.

A baby declared stillborn is lying in the morgue but brought back to life by a freak accident. A morgue worker (Chaz Bono) saves her and secretly raises her as his own. 16 years later, the girl (Kayleigh Gilbert) is desperate to find her mother (Barbara Crampton), but has a deadly gift of being able to harness electricity. She goes on a murderous campaign to find and keep her mom.

Some of the acting here is pretty dreadful (especially from Michael Pare as the cop and some of the sub-characters), but in many respects it is an interesting old fashioned horror B movie could have been from the 1940s and 50s. Besides who can resist the great Barbara Crompton who always adds some class to the most mixed of horror films.

Just because something is reborn, it doesn't make it immune against predictability. In this case cliches are really thrown at the viewer and a lot of things can be spotted miles ahead. Still it can be fun to a certain degree, if you let the movie.

I like Barbara Crampton, but even if you are a fan, you should not expect too much. There is only so much anyone can do (including Michael Pare) with a script/story like that ...

I got to say I wasn't getting alot of adrenaline the acting was mediocre and the plot wasn't so strong I mean this is supposed to be a horror film and horror films are supposed to have jumpscares and there wasn't any what a pity also the ending was corny also the teenage girl in this movie should've been in therapy apparently she didn't get any kind of therapy but that reminds me of times where kids who were abused their whole life most of them grow up to be very aggressive and somewhat evil it's true. And then there are some people who had really good lives turn into the scum of the earth that's why the Chinese created the yin yang symbol because there's a little evil in all things good and there's a little good in all things evil so everyone on this planet has a choice to be good or evil.

A "Carrie meets Frankenstein" movie, which though a decent watch, was spoiled for me by the film trying to pass 60 year old Barbara Compton off as a 35 year old! Yes...Barbara is still a beautiful woman and looks great, but playing a 35 year old was a mission too far...and this put the film on the back foot right from the start for me.