LDD_man Reviews

Shrooms (2007)

Disappointing

[3/10 · 8 May 2008]

I saw the advert for "shrooms" and instantly wanted to see it so i rented a copy. I think the real clincher that will get this film an audience is the fact that it brings the drug element into a horror. I was hoping for a very trippy film that was so messed up you don't know whether to scream or rewind and rethink.

Unfortunately "Shrooms" goes for the premonition approach. After taking a bad shroom, Tera the main girl starts "seeing things". I just thought from that point on i'd seen it all before. I was right. Most of this film is simply people walking around, looking for something with a scared look on their face. The whole back story seems to be a relatively regurgatated camp fire tale that is used in most films "a bad house, kids are abused, one messed up kid left"- come on this just isn't scary.

Admittedly the ending is clever, but again not the most original.

The potential this film had is wasted on what seems to be a boring storyline. Not much trippyness or edge of your seat tension, just another B-grade horror.

Godsend (2004)

what the.....

[2/10 · 13 August 2006]

Well, what can we say about Godsend. A film that sports quite an impressive, if not rather up-and-coming (not including Rob Deniro). But the plot is thinner then a poorly made fried egg. A child is tragically killed and then, with the help of science born again.

So far so good, but then we find that after the reborn child lives past the age he originally dies, he becomes "disturbed" in his sleep. He slowly but surely starts to become quite... evil. Do I mean evil, or eyebrowingly raisingly weird, (and not in a good way). From their on their is no more story, or at least they shouldn't be.

Why Robbie took this part of a not-seen-to-often-in-the-film scientist is beyond me.

Although I must say that the ending is very unpredictable... because its so very dull, apart from when the credits role Save your money and buy a more interesting film instead... no, any film!

Edward Scissorhands (1990)

A tale of woe, longing, love and fantasy

[10/10 · 2 June 2005]

When you hear of fairy tales, you think dragons princesses and horror. But what Tim Burton does here is make a fairy tale that people can relate to, a modern, meaningful story.

Edward is a creation that was isolated from the near by suburbs when his inventor died. But, when a thoughtful Avon Lady finds him and takes him home with her.

As the plot thickens, the town's people struggle to handle the hands of Edward.

This film is a classic and has a moral which is unmissable. "Never judge a book by its cover." Edward is a part of us that has once been. Apart that feels different and abnormal.

A truly moving and beautiful film!