I was extremely excited to hear that a new Tobe Hooper movie was coming out starring no less than Angela Bettis. I loved both the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and May, so I was really interested in how the pairing would work. Who would have guessed that it would be one of the most amateurish movies I've ever seen?
From the script up, the film is boring, silly, and derivative. Jace Anderson and Adam Gierasch, who between them have left a wake of terrible movies, put absolutely no effort into writing a halfway decent script, instead randomly referencing other, better films. There's a girl who's convinced the building is evil, but nobody believes her! Oh, right: Rosemary's Baby. And she finds teeth in the walls! Oh, right: The Tenant. Even Hooper's own Massacre is whored out here in the facially disfigured, nonverbal killer. And, sadly, the direction just does not pick up the slack left in the script. It looks like a TV movie, extremely workmanlike with entire sequences so badly lit, shot, and edited it's difficult to even tell what's going on.
I don't know how a film with such a well-known director and star ends up looking like an awful low budget first time director's work. I really wanted this to be better.
From the script up, the film is boring, silly, and derivative. Jace Anderson and Adam Gierasch, who between them have left a wake of terrible movies, put absolutely no effort into writing a halfway decent script, instead randomly referencing other, better films. There's a girl who's convinced the building is evil, but nobody believes her! Oh, right: Rosemary's Baby. And she finds teeth in the walls! Oh, right: The Tenant. Even Hooper's own Massacre is whored out here in the facially disfigured, nonverbal killer. And, sadly, the direction just does not pick up the slack left in the script. It looks like a TV movie, extremely workmanlike with entire sequences so badly lit, shot, and edited it's difficult to even tell what's going on.
I don't know how a film with such a well-known director and star ends up looking like an awful low budget first time director's work. I really wanted this to be better.