A woman named Michelle
(Georgina Rylance) is on the search of
her missing daughter named Justine
(Karley Scott Collins) and asks anyone
around her but spots people committing
suidice or being run over by a vehicle
not happy with themselves.
She goes to the aid of her Aunt Carmen
(Lee Garlington) as she doesn't seem to
be herself and tells her that her husband
Uncle Pete (Grant James) isn't himself
anymore.
Next, Michelle spots Justine in the
playground at night on the swings and
then runs away.
The next day, Justine is found walking on
a roadway near Michelle's apartment and
Stephen spots her and then takes her
away.
Justine realises that everyone is being
plagued by some sort of a virus caused by
cell phones and computers which has been
spreading a couple years beforehand
causing deaths and suicides along with
their spirits becoming evil and sucking
the life out of others as they travel
across the country to try and find safety
but wherever they go people are being
infected.
We do have some
brief impressive shots with the Man in Red - Thomas
Ziegler pulling out red tape and
then making his costume but then he walks
the alley ways and streets with ghostly
effects shown which looks quite cheesy
plus it was in the daylight. Not a good
time to show hauntings then.
Next, we have a good camera shot on Michelle at her computer with an
angle shot on her while some sort of soot
is falling down and then the camera
circles towards showing her in front of
the computer typing which looked good and
gets up as well as nice angle shots on
her looking around for her daughter with
nice hallucination sequences with her
banging on a neighbors door in an
apartment as well as at a hospital with
no one reacting which was done in
good taste making it mysterious.
We have a nice scene with her walking in
the middle of the street near a deserted
city with a close to jumping reaction on
a falling down of a corpse being hung
along with an estranged woman
coming up to her acting totally out of it
when she tries to demand to her if she
saw her little girl which was perfectly
set out.
We spot a perfect dark scene between her and Aunt Carmen as niece and aunt
wondering what is happening to everyone.
A perfect close up shot on both of them
nearly opening a door to a room with Aunt Carmen acting emotionally scared telling her
something terrifying.
A nice shot on Michelle going
outside in a backyard with a shot on Justine wearing a jacket and
hood on her head acting like a zombie on
a swing.
We have some good cheesy outdoor effects
with Michelle trying to chase
after her daughter in a playground area.
There's perfect angle shots on Justine walking the the middle of the road
with her hood over her head along with
two separate shots on Stephen waking up in his vehicle watching her in
the street along with Michelle on
her balcony in her apartment staring at
her. Then there's good shots on her running down the stairs to
try and get to her along with Stephen hugging her and speaking
emotionally towards her.
A good creepy moment with the two
of them in the vehicle while trying to
speed by before a suicidal jumper is on an overpass about to
jump off.
We have some great aggressions between Stephen and supporting character Cliff after he spots a mark on Justine's shoulder.
A nice conversation in a house with Stephen and Justine when she
discussed what happened to her mother along with a great flashback sequence
with a perfect camera shot on Michelle in her daughters bedroom kneeling down
and holding out her hand along with Justine slowly walking towards her crying
and embracing one another with Michelle singing a song to her and the cheesy
effects of black markings forming on her and then falling to dust.
We have a nice energetic moment on Michelle trashing her apartment room and then
her kneeling down with the camera zooming
away from her.
There's a nice evil moment with a character Uncle Pete gutting a dead
animal and trying to get out of his room
with Aunt Carmen on the other
side of the door acting frightened when
he tries to demand her to let him out
which was truly dark and twisted
like.
We have a good presence with Marta entering the
cabin and acting arrogant as well as her
acting spooked with Stephen on
shutting off a computer with him discovering what's on the computer
screen.
A perfect shot on Michelle's hands typing very quickly on a keyboard
plus a great close up shot on Stephen while
trying to figure something out on his
side of the computer and then a great
ghostly presence with her looking face to face with him in which he
breathes heavily.
A perfect running away scene
in the cabin with Stephen screaming
and panicking to everyone in order to get
out.
A nice ghostly presence by Marta trying to make out with Cliff and then the terror starts to happen.
Another nice moment on a gas
station attendant while filling up gas a
nice close up shot on his arm with the
dark effects as well as a nice shot on
him putting gasoline on him and lighting
his lighter.
The best part of the movie of all is towards the
end when Stephen tries to
sympathise with the ghostly Michelle in a middle of a field.
Bottom line is that this film is not as good as the
first one as I almost rated it just above
average as it almost sloped down but
picked up in many spots with the very
dark terrifying moments and the evil
ghostly hauntings which makes up for that
making it very watchable for any horror
fan. This film almsot reminds me a ghostly
version of Dawn of the Dead
but in much better taste.
I'm glad the story carried on and can
have a great following still imaginging
if computers or any other devices can
kill you and turn you into a deadly
spirit.
The special effects are slightly cheesy
in some spots and on a bit of a lower
budget than the first one but that really
doesn't matter since we have a nice
performance and a good plot.
The acting is very
well done for most of the cast in this
film especially the lead actor Jamie
Bamber (Stephen) who shows a great serious
attitude along with alot of aggression
and terrific energy to his character to
top it all off showing great expressions
not to mention. A good
shocked reaction on him discovering what's on a computer in a certain scene. A good scared
expressions in another part of the story. He showed off terrific
energy and emotions offering sympathy towards someone else near the end of his performance.
Child actress Karley Scott Collins
(Justine) was gifted with her part as the estranged
child in the film who knew how to cry on
cue when she needed to or be frightened
as well. In a certain scene she does
well by getting spooked. She does well sobbing about discussing her mother. She can really go far in her
career as an actress.
However, Georgina Rylance
(Michelle) doesn't seem to pull off her part all
that well and seemed a tiny bit wooden
but not extremely awful. She just seemed
low on energy.
Lee Garlington (Aunt Carmen) performed great
acting like a basket case Aunt as well as
behaving very quiet and extremely strange
too which made her believeably
mysterious.
Boti Bliss (Marta) really knew how to act
like a tough one with a bit of a stuck up
attitude although she was in it about 10
minutes. She is good by acting frightened
with a ghostly presence on her fellow actress.
We have a bare breasted Boti
Bliss when she is turned into a
ghost walking towards William Prael's
and nearly seducing him.
A body is bloodied
after jumping off an overpass.
There's a slit wrist
A body sinks in some sludge
Elia Cmiral
composes good harp chiming and
synthesizer music for when the film
starts after the opening credits showing
good talent along with the odd singing.
Of course he composes the great thumping
sounds for the jumping scene's. There's
perfect windy, moaning and hissing sounds
too.
There's some good chilling piano playing
which sounds similar in Halloween
during a haunting moment in the film
along with the good peaceful violin
playing too for other certain scene's
when it's necessary. |
