Je t'ai trop attendue

Single mom Rosemary Zoltanne (Markie Post) and her smart-ass teen daughter Sarah (Sarah Chalke) move from L.A. to a big house in Massachusetts where a witch was burned at the stake 300 years earlier. Sarah makes friends with a geeky outsider (Ben Foster) but also attracts the attention of teen members of the "Descendant's Club"-- obnoxious jocks (led by Christian Campbell, brother of Neve) and the high school bitch queens (led by Soleil Moon Frye) who think she's the reincarnation of the dead witch. Sarah gets harassing phone calls ("I've been waiting for you!") and a masked killer with a steel claw lurks around.

This is resolutely typical post SCREAM/I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER fare (supposedly from the "author" of the latter) with offscreen violence, but the performances are surprisingly good and it's watchable, though it all seems like a big build-up to nothing by the end.

I didn't know it at the time when I rented the video, but frequent fade-outs to black and someone credited with the teleplay soon made me realize I'd rented a TV movie that was inexplicably (and erroneously!) rated R to bulk up it's distribution value. Don't be expecting to find gore, nudity or four-letter words in this film.

I'm sorry, but this movie just wasn't all that great. I rented it because it had a shiny cover, it said that it was by the author of I Know What You Did Last Summer, and it starred Soleil Moon Frye. But it just didn't work for me. The little attempts at romance were never fleshed out and should have either been strengthened or edited out. And I understand that the TV aspect lowered the body count drastically, but if they scared one girl to death (hokey hokey hokey), they could have used that excuse to ice another character or two. Instead, they just have some little troll-thingie with a cool looking weapon (4 nails... would have been better as 4 blades) who threatens his victims. Nope. But the acting was better than the average TV movie (worse than the average film, but hey), and some of the humor worked.

I was only going to watch it cause on the commercials it said it was made by the creator of I Know What You Did Last Summer. Of course they mean the author Lois Duncan, not the writer Kevin Williamson. It was cool! Too bad it was on TV. Cause if it were, the body count would be higher, there would be more violence and there would be some cursing. But still cool and scary, although only one part made me jump. Hope it gets released on video pretty soon.

I did start my Halloween challenge on Saturday 22nd. Which will be 40 days of horror movies/.

Yesteday Day 3

I've been waiting for you (1998)

Well, It Sounded a bit like scream but with bit witches added to it. The masked wasn't to bad but I found it more funny then scary.

The movie it self wasn't all that gory or scary however it still intruded me from start to end,

With these you can't' tell who the killer is from their first scenes but I did enjoy those funny witches scenes. which I found a bit funny, I don't think that was intended.

The acting wasn't all that bad. not great but decent for a TV movie. I didn't really liked how it was all revealed out.

The last scene kinds of leaves you hanging. I did here there was meant another to sequel to this movie. which would have explained the last scene.

5 out of 10

Another dubious Channel 5 movie. It seems to me that to attempt to make it in Hollywood as a young star, you have to be murdered in a rather gruesome manner by somebody dressed in a cape, preferably surrounded by mist.

Unfortunately, this film doesn't deliver the goods as a horror film, failing to build up the atmosphere sufficiently for the murder scenes to be scary, and with one of the most confusing and pointless plot lines I've seen in ages. There are a couple of classy scenes (watch out for the smoking gargoyle), but this is more a showcase for Hollywood's young talent than an edge-of-your-seat horror. So if you like good-looking hardbodies, and more dry ice than you can poke a stick at, then you'll love this.