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Psycho Ward
Canada 2007
produced by Chad Archibald, Harpreet Bassi, Jim Kosmenko, Patrick McBrearty, Jeffrey Neiman for Switchblade Studios
directed by Patrick McBrearty
starring Jacqueline Betts, Bobby Horvath, Liam Card, Tim Clarke, Sandy Lai, Nicole Bolin, Nick Montgomery, Sabrina Couture, Eva Redpath, Ry Barrett, Jim Kosmenko
written by Christopher Lee Thompson, music by Sonica Disturbia
review by Mike Haberfelner
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A professor (Liam Card) and his stereotypical bunch of students - the
nerd (Tim Clarke), the jock (Bobby Horvath), the introverted chick
(Jacqueline Betts) and the feisty Asian girl (Sandy Lai) - make a field
trip to an abandoned prison to shoot a documentary (why is it that all of
these kids in horror movies are shooting documentaries nowadays?) and
meet your slightly eccentric local stereotype, er, girl (Nicole Bonin) to
act as their guide. OF COURSE, there is a masked killer (Jim Kosmenko)
loose in the prison, but all our kids would have to do is to stay together
to have a fighting chance - yet they use every excuse in the book to split
up and have themselves chased through the place and killed in a gruesome
fashion, one by one, until noone's left. Another of these
slasher movies that isn't just bad because it's unoriginal (a problem of
the genre as such), but that's actually annoying because it isn't even
once trying to be anything but genre fodder from the conveyor belt, made
up from beginning to end from terrible and over-used clichés and (not)
held together by a total lack of atmosphere, tension and suspense. Why
anybody would want to watch this actually isn't so much my question as why
would anybody even want to make this? Using your brain a little to
insert at least one idea or two into an often-told tale doesn't hurt that
much, now does it?
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Robots and rats,
demons and potholes, cuddly toys and shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill Your Bones to is all of that.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to -
a collection of short stories and mini-plays ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle,
all thought up by the twisted mind of screenwriter and film reviewer Michael Haberfelner.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to
the new anthology by Michael Haberfelner
Out now from Amazon!!! |
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