Sunday, August 12, 2007

Penny dreadful

The movie starts out with a cameo by the guy from "Hills have Eyes" the original, He;s aged pretty well, and looks more handsome than ever. Penny is a little girl haunted by visions. I don't know if I'm in the mood for some "Mouth of Madness" type disjointed horror flick starring Mimi Rogers.
I think the cameo of this guy might be the best part of the film. Mimi Rogers is pushing this girl to "confront her fears" and "complete the circle." I think I might change the movie right now to "The Hamiltons." I can feel the seconds slipping off from my life, but I'm an insomniac, so I have time.
Mimi is a therapist, and the girl survived some tragic accident. I can tell you right now that the movie will be revealed through flashbacks (poorly) and it's only ten minutes in. The girl is on anti-psychotics, probably prescribed by Mimi, and hopefully something good. She didn't prescribed the pills, the girl got them on her own. I'm bored of this film and it's twelve minutes in.
13 minutes in and it's good again, they hit a hiker. Darn, the hiker is still alive. Sweet, they are giving the guy a lift. Movie could be halfway decent as long as she doesn't have flashbacks. I don't mind flashback movies if they are done well, but horror movies are rarely good flashback movies. The guy looks like a zombie. She's afraid of driving and she's trapped in a car with a guy that looks like a corpse. He's carrying a raw meatstick and they act like it stinks.
They are about to drop him off and he looks more dead than ever. If she is having a hallucination I'm changing it. Otherwise, it stays on.
I just fast forwarded ten minutes ti find out the killer is a meat skewer killer. I guess it's original. They also cast some classic horror movie actors. The meat skewer killer just got Mimi. I think. Could be a hallucination. Then he parked the car in trees, so Penny's stuck in a car with the body. Yup, car's good and trapped. She is too freaked to smash a window.
Promiscuous teens just showed up. She got topless. I wonder what happens next.
I would say she has three choices, learn to hotwire a car, smash the back window and run fast as you can, or die in that car. She's been freaking out for five hours now. Rigor Mortis has already set in Mimi's body.
Promiscuous teen just found the car. He just said, "I'll be back in a jiffy." Goodbye.
Both promiscuous teens dead in five minute span. I could paint by numbers too. Co-worker just called out "Where are you, this isn't funny."
Nothing else interesting happens. Another guy in a truck hits the hiker as he tries to kill Penny. He goes to investigate the body, twitch, roll credits. It kept the character in danger, but the only originality is the guy killed with a meat skewer.

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