 
Allie Platt (Kailin
See) goes on a hunt with her friends to an island
for her missing father only to be stranded there
but her friends seem to party while searching for
him and are warned by a local there named Ryan
Caull (Aaron Pearl) making them unwelcome but
they ignore his warning.
Allie is tormented by her nightmares and sees
hallucinations on a ghost of her father but she
gets a little help from both Jason (David Kopp)
and Albert (James Kirk) on where to search for
these unsolved mysteries that she's been getting
in her dreams.
Yet, one by one these friends are being tortured
by a woman named the Seamstress (Andee Frizzell)
whom was tortured to death herself when she was
alive by a vigilante mob on the island si she
does the same bidding to anyone who trespasses
there by her needle as she sews them up and kills
them in different ways.
The title of the movie seemed like
that this would be a good one to watch and by
judging the beginning taking place in the woods
with someone planning to sew a person's eyes
while he's buried in the ground did bring some
psychological horror elements to it like you'd
picture in Saw, Hostel
or even Texas Chainsaw Massacre
in which this was a perfect start for a horror
film.
A nice beginning in the deep dark
woods with supporting character Donny Plachtt buried up to his head with him pleading towards other
supporting character Collier Gatier with
shots on his hands ready to sew his eyes which
all of this looked intense and well done for
a horror piece.
Then of course there's the moments with suspects
that the lead character Allie Platt accuses
like an old timer Virgil Logan who's a
crazed type of sheriff which adds to the nice
touch of this horror film but yet this seems too
obvious that he's the killer in the film but yet
you see him torturing another man in the flick
which again offers some good psychological horror
feel to the story and making the moments yet even
more mysterious as to why the hell this is all
happening.
There's a great powerful moment with Allie Platt getting
aggressive towards Virgil with
him speaking in a low deep creepy voice along
with good camera shots on one another while this
happens.
Then there's the teens heading out to the island
for what you might think is for fun and I was
thinking to myself "Weren't they on a search
for their freinds father? This is supposed to be
serious and having them worried" I didn't
think that this scene fit in at all.
There's a good shot with Allie along with
her friends planning out a map to go
to an island along with good upsetting emotions
on her about what has happened to her
father and really wanting to get to the bottom of
things in which this moment was quite strongly
done with everyone.
But yet there's a local on the island telling
them that they're not welcome there in which adds
alot of mysterious moments and a good start that
something will definetely happen if they do stay
there. That moment was well written even if
certain aspects on it was slightly cheesy.
Some good shots with Virgil speaking coldly towards Collier with him
looking battered up as well as strong moments on
him being tortured which looked psychologically
well done.
Good energetic moments with the
teens enjoying themselves at the island with
a nice approach by a local approaching them telling everyone
they're not welcome in which this was done in a ghostly type of fashion
on how he was telling them this.
The story sometimes went a bit too long with not
enough action but some intense moments that
involved Virgil acting insecure about stuff but
there was a great nightmare sequence as well as
ghostly moments on her dead father which made the
movie seem quite spooky.
A good moment with Allie looking
in a tent and revealing a ghoul with her freaking
out as well as good energetic shots on her
running out as well as a good haunting approach
by Donny calling out which
looked suspensefully shot too.
A great intense moment on her standing out of her tent screaming and freaking
out with everyone trying to calm her down which
looked incredibly energised.
Good moments between her and Albert getting intense with one another running through
the woods which looked highly energised too.
There's a great shot on Paul tied to a
tree looking bloodied along with everyone else
freaking out which looked good as well as a nice
camera shot looking down on him and finding the
results on what happened to him.
A great shot on Dina with
her head down screaming and crying hysterically
by what had happened in which this was in perfect
taste.
Then there's the ghost of the seamstress witch
killing each one off by sewing them up or
barbwiring them in which this almost seemed to be
influenced by something out of the Blair Witch
Project as to what could've happened to those
students making that found footage flick which saved this
film for being other than just above average in
which there's neat effects and dark scenery to
all of this along with some good whispering
sounds too.
There's great dark shots near the forestry area
with Allie and the rest being terrorised
by the
seamstress with good dark shots on her which
looked creepy as well as great shots on both her and Albert running away in the woods with
a good background shot on the seamstress chasing after them as these
moments looked impressive and fast paced.
Bottom line is this film was a very good effort
in a local Canadian horror flick and a good
buddget for an indie flick too. It's not
Americanised like some Canadian films are to have
the viewers interested in it showing pride in
their country with mainly a cast of locals too. A
nice ghost story even if it doesn't seem like one
in the beginning.
The acting is pretty good but not
many stand out too well. Let me give this a shot
though and see what I can conjure up here.
Kailin
See (Allie Platt) as the lead actress in the film seemed
to grab attention with her anxious behavior along
with her aggressions too. She brought out alot of
terrific energy in her role of the film as well
as knowing how to freak out and scream well. She
can easily portray a great character with this
role as well as her uptight emotions too. Plus
could get work in other horror films regardless
since this one seems to be a perfect start to
being a scream queen.
David Kopp (Jason) seemed to come across nicely as a
clean cut type with a nice outgoing type of
behavior and really came across with his lines
quite well with all he had to do. He brought out
some fair characteristics in his role as the lead
male actor for sure.
James Kirk (Albert) certainly brought on a nice
insecure behavior to his part and was terrific by
acting very anxious by all that's happening. He
certainly brought a perfect type of attitude as
the key member in the film.
Lance Henriksen (Sheriff Virgil Logan) had the perfect supporting
role in the film as the crazed sheriff in the
flick with his low gruff speaking and serious
attitude in which he mainly played these types in
numerous other films over the years. He's just so
damn good at it. He came across as very
intimidating and a worthy horror character actor
too. Also does well by raising his
voice too which looked powerful.
Richard Stroh's butt is
briefly revealed while barb wired to a tree
A guy's face is about to be sewn up
while he's buried in the ground
A person is bloodied and being tortured
A person is bloodily barbwired to a tree with his
eyed sewed up
More faced are mangled and sewed up
The
music was neatly done in which we hear many deep
keyboard composing which some of it had good
thumping sounds like you hear in those old school
horror flicks from the late 80's early 90's which
I got a kick out of. There's also some hissing
sound effects along with some great metal banging
sounds too during the terror and suspense used in
the plot. This was all neatly done by Jeffrey
Alan Jones. |
