(Thanks for combining threads, V! Forgot about the one you started! :o)
ANYway...
I'm not sure whether or not it was a GOOD thing that we kicked our 2010 Horrorfest movie watching with
The Graves...
Why it might have been GOOD to have seen this movie first: The movie was so abysmal, there is no way that the rest of the festival could be
that bad.
Why it might have been BAD to have seen this movie first: This might be a preview of what is yet to come...
GOD I hope not.
...
In case you couldn't tell by the above,
The Graves was simply awful. Before seeing the movie, sure, the plot didn't really get me going (basic urbanoia/evil town story: Two Girls go to a town in the midwest US and EVIL things happen), BUT, I thought that with Bill Moseley (
House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil's Rejects) and Tony Todd (
Candyman as THE CANDYMAN), this might be kitsch fun.
I was wrong.
Also: I am starting to doubt that Bill Moseley has any talent outside of Rob Zombie movies... After watching
Dead Air and
Repo! I think that he should just stick to being
Otis Driftwood.
The direction is horrible - there is absolutely no sense of dread at all. The writing is deplorable - I really could care LESS whether or not our victims live or die. And the movie is just overall unimaginative. The Evil Rural Town routine has been done and done and done. If you're going to do it again, try to put SOME kind of spin on it.
Oy.
The one redeeming factor: Our heroines are ridiculously RIDICULOUSLY hot. But you can just
Google them without having to put you through this waste of time.
PLEASE, After Dark, DO NOT tell me that this is an omen of movies yet to come. If so I have a loooooooooooooooooooooong horror-watching ride ahead of me...
1/5 (slightly better than After Dark's
Nightmare Man,
Lake Dead, and
Perkins' 14, but not by much).