Comments on: Review: SPIRIT TRAP

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:04:24 +0000

Stop wasting your time with this and review something like Phantasm and the other golden oldies (Does it count as that? it’s only, what, 20 years old)

I mean, yeah, you’re warning me not to watch it, but surely this is taking a serious toll on your soul.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:47:16 +0000

I’ve got to admit I am shocked that even this many people have heard of this movie yet alone seen portions of it.

Birdy, yeah I realized towards the end of the movie that it was all supposed to have been taking place at an indefinite midnight that locked in when the clock was activated, but the sloggish pacing and terrible narrative felt like it was spanning days.

It seemed like characters were going to sleep and waking up left and right with no thought whatsoever as to how much time had elapsed or what they’d missed.

By: Birdy

Birdy — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:47:05 +0000

…Granted, I have a high tolerance for bad movies (especially horror), but it wasn’t the worst for me. It made acceptable background noise for playing Half Life on my laptop (in other words, it had a couple moments of enough interest to get me to pause from bashing head crab zombies and look up). Which also, by the by, means I didn’t have to pay attention to the admittedly poor acting.

Although I would point out that the crazy crap all went down in one night–the first night they move in, presumably before the semester began–so it isn’t that big of a hole in the plot that they didn’t crack a book. A bigger hole, I thought, was that one or two of the characters is apparently on the run. I’d assume attending university isn’t a common activity when on the run.

..And this response would have been shorter and less nitpicky had I not just watched the blasted thing on TMC yesterday.

By: deepfield

deepfield — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:07:07 +0000

lmao.. i tried watching this last night

i made it about 15 minutes in before falling asleep

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:55:18 +0000

I know, I know. I swear I’ll review some good stuff in the next few days.

Or at least something competent.

By: R.J. Sayer

R.J. Sayer — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:35:47 +0000

shoulda asked me about this one, Peter. i coulda warned you.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:08:05 +0000

Is there anyway you can review a good movie? These reviews of shitty movies I had a 1.7% chance of accidentally watching aren’t very helpful.