A disturbed little girl
named Rachel (Lindsey Leino) is unhappy
with her family as her Mom (Lucia
Sullivan) is jealous of her as well as
cheating on her Father (Jeff Zurowski)
whom she is close with and he is trying
to make the family happy but then things
get out of hand as her toy clown dolls
named Melo (Wendy Dominguez) and Lelo
(Jon Overgaauw) seem to come to life. Or
is it her imagination? They manipulate
her to get a kitchen knife and to kill
her mother.
Years have passed and she is now a
teenager and finds out some devastating
news that her father was killed in an
accident and gets very depressed by this.
Plus she is niot getting along too well
with her classmates and she sees Melo and
Lelo appear before her eyes again with
her younger version wearing a killers
mask and holding an axe which may drive
her to do more deadly damage on her
enemies.
Alot of people put
this film down by saying it's a cheaply
done slasher film. Well it was made on a
low budget for sure but I quite admired
it. Sure it's a bit confusing and you
wonder where all of this is coming from
while watching it but still alot of the
scene's are very well done and
imaginative like too.
We have a real beginning with a masked
killer doing in people in a gruesome
fashion which is a great start for a
flick like this one. There's lots of good camera
looking up on the masked killer shots in
the beginning as well as nice graphic
shots on him doing in his victims in different styled shots and gruesome
ways which looked brutally intense.
Next up, we see a dysunctional little
girl playing with her toys and talking
like her Mom does with her which makes
you convinced that she is a part of an
abusive type but they tell her that they
are happy but just trying to work things
out which makes you think to yourself
that these parents always say that when
there's something not right with this
family picture. There's nice circling camera shots aroundthis child by having a tea party with her dolls as well
as her saying harsh things which looked a
bit tense as well as a good close up shot
on a clown doll and her throwing it.
Of course we spot a scene between the
married couple with the husband trying to
work stuff out while the wife is quietly
sulking and disturbed as well as being
negative towards him in which this moment
is quite psychological and difficult to
watch at times cause it's truly sad to
watch.
Good shot on young the little girl lying
in bed and an effects shot on a TV with a
face looming out of it which looked
really effective and then her Mom entering near her bedroom door asking
what she's doing as well as her weakly
speaking out her answer to her which
showed some good timing and then a nice
moment later on cursing at her behind her
back.
There's of course the affair with the Mom
and the little girl spotting this which
is very necessary as well as her clowns
coming to life and manipulating her to go
to a kitchen and get a knife so she will
kill her Mom in which some elements seem
almost similar to the story in Halloween. Nice shots onthese deadly clowns creeping around her and
a nice cmaera shot looking up on them
talking to her which seems quite spooky
and manipulating her to get a kitchen
knife with her hesitant about it and some
odd moments with one of them getting
aggressive towards her which looked
greatly done too.
Lots of good shots looking up and
down on this child climbing up to a
kitchen table and reaching out for a
knife which looked dangerous wondering if
the knives will all crash down.
Good moment with the father coming
up from behind the mother near a
kitchen sink and trying to talk to her
and she has a negative attitude towards
him which kinda breaks the peaceful
moment and realistic looking too with all
that's happening and very sketchy like
too.
Good moment with the little girl holding
a knife behind her back and telling the Mom that she doesn't like her and then
she demands to her to go to bed in which
you wonder if she will stab her which
looked very convincing.
Another good moment with the child at
the dinner table telling the Dad about
what her Mom was doing while he's working
with a great crude moments and snapping snapping towards each other in which
really looked like a believeably
dysfunctional family.
There's a great raging argument between
both parents in
which it was high and very intense with
good shots surrounding them while this
moment is happening making you wonder if
one of them is going to be physical with
one another.
Nice shot on the child stabbing her Mom in the breast
with a great shocking reaction on her and
falling down. There's a nice camera shot
looking down on a door opening with a
bloodstream near and the Dad noticing
it and then a great shocked expression
after he spots what has happened and then
a good shocked answer with a nice shot on the girl looking a bit bloodied and
almost innocent like which made this
scene look impressive for a psycho
slasher.
Then there's the moment with this little
girl now a teenager after killing her Mom
but now karma hits her when her only
friend which is her father died in a car
accident and just losing all control of
life around her and spotting the clowns
and her past self as the little girl with
a mask and axe in her hand driving
herself to go even more crazy which
looked very horror and artsy too while
getting into the movie.
Bottom line is this film is a bit
confusing wondering why this is all
happening as you wonder if these clowns
are real or is it this child's
imagination since she's going through
life with a Mom whom is jealous of her in
which there's alot of parents like that
sadly and how far she'd go to try and get
rid of her for good. All of this was
still well put together and may thrill
fans who enjoy both psychological and
slasher films put in one.
The acting is
fairly good. But however child actress Lindsey
Leino (Younger Rachel) seemed to lack a bit as a
disturbed child in the flick but seemed
to pull off her cute personality. Yet
when she starts to act aggressive and
nasty she doesn't seem to do the trick
all too well like she's just saying her
lines and that's it. Oh well she was
young and maybe she will improve in time.
Christina
Roseberg (Older Rachel) who played the older
version of this character I must say
really got into the mood by portraying a
teenager in which she deos well with her
upsetting emotions and knew how to cry
quite well while grieving her father's
death. She also does well by going in a
rage at time and acting vulgar too. She
was a great horror character for the
film.
Lucia Sullivan (Jennie - Mom) portrayed
a nice basket case of a mother in the
film by being unhappy with her life and
really showing a dysfunctional attitude
towards her family with her aggressions
and harshness too. She brought out alot
of great energy by being very negative.
Jeff Zurowski (John - Father) who portrayed the
father however had a great opposite
attitude as a caring one and niceness to
his role in it. He definetely brought out
alot of great characteristics as the
family man next door type of appeal. Plus
he had the nice well groomed clean cut
look which was another plus to his role.
Gary Kohn (Michael) knew on how to portray the
teenage boyfriend in the flick as he
seems like a guy next door as well. Yet
he looks a bit too old to play a teenager
as he seemed to be close to 30 years of
age. Still he knew how to come across
with his character very well and really
studying this type of part too.
Lucia Sullivan
exposes her breasts while making love to
another guy in a shower.
There's bodies chopped up
with guts revealed
A breast is bloodily stabbed with a
violent bloodshed
There's some good
synthesizer classical sounds and high
tones which does well for the scene's
involved but there's some sad sounding
piano playing too which sounds like it
was taken from one of those daytime soap
opera's in which I'm not a fan of.
There's great powerful classical
composing during a scene where there's a
scene on a hallucination sequence outside
which worked out terrifically. |