A greedy billionaire
Clarence Martel (Mark Austin) wants
immortality so he goes to the aid of a
person who seriously owes him money to do
so whom is a gambler Mikey (Steve
Christopher) to do a night job to cover
his debt from him by staying in an old
abandoned house with his brother Paul
(Shayne Merritt) in which they do a
ritual there known as the "Drawing
of Shadows" and accidentally
releases some demons which comes out of
the shadows when it's pitched black.
These demons slaughter Mikey.
Later on a group of young partying adults
are forced off the road by a storm and
stay at the house to seek shelter and are
warned by Paul about the terrors
happening at the house in which the game
starts for all of them.
If
they want to survive, they must play a
terrifying game of cat and mouse with the
house's murderous inhabitants.
There's
an interesting aggressive discussion with
Clarence Martel acting nasty towards both Paul and Mikey for owing him money which almost seems
like a cheesy moment on a mafia
situation.
Some boring shots on both Paul and Mikey by creating a
pentagram and trying to plan out some
paranormal activity.
There's some good dark shots on the two
of them wandering around the house giving
it a Blair Witch type of
direction on them trying to find out
strange activivites.
A good shot on Mikey in a dark hallway looking around along
with a nice fast shot on the Shadow
People quickly running by which seemed
fairly spooky.
There's some boring discussions with
people entering the house
laughing or
trying to have a good time which sort of
drags with the situations and you think to
yourself when will we get to something
interesting to watch.
There is a good presence by Paul appearing
forcefully towards them and getting
emotional and anxious towards everybody
on what happened in the house they're all
staying in and then a good shot on Matt attacking him and pounding on him which
looked a bit cheesy but at the time time
intense too.
There's some tacky camera shots with Matt tied up pleading to be set free with
shots zooming back and fourth towards him
and one of the other characters as if someone
is in the room filming this which there
wasn't. It was sloppy.
Some neat looking shots on the Shadow People approaching from the dark and leaping out
to attack.
A great moment with Matt holding a flashlight type object staring
at John while there's brutal shots on
him being slaughtered by the Shadow People as well as a good close up shot screaming
out and being upset.
There's a good shot on Clarence watching all of
what's going on with the monitor on his
laptop and suddenly losing control of
himself.
Good moment with Matt trying to talk to both Laura and Angie with them losing
control and screaming as well as crying
intensely by what's going on.
There's great close up shots on Matt being brutally bashed by the Shadow People which almost makes it hard to watch at
times.
Bottom line is that this film was
barely made on a budget at all with a
cheap camcorder camera but the story
seemed to have a fair feel to it which
saved it for becoming average going to
show no matter how bad the quality looks
you can get away with certain things.
Sometimes it almost looks like you're
watching a Blair Witch
type of flick making a cheap camera
necessary to use for elements like that
which seemed alot of fun to watch
wondering if ghostly events will happen
and comes across creepily once they do.
However, there's many scene's that you
can tell is an actor wearing black to
look like a shadow attacking and
slaughtering their victims.
Some of the performances are a bit stale
which doesn't seem natural in which they
were supposed to have been. But there was
at times some good intensity when the
terrors start to happen which seemed
quite impressive too.
The outside of the house however you
could tell was computer animated which
looked like these makers were doing a 48
hour film festival contest.
This is an average
and stale film but has some fun touches
in certain parts of the story mainly when
it involves a haunting and it's a very
imaginative tale to anyone who was scared
of the dark and wondering what will
happen when the lights are off and in
this case something terrifying does
happen with this story. It would scare a
little kid for sure.
The acting is a
little bit average and a little bit
below. Lead actress Suzanna
Hartzell-Baird (Laura) really brought out
her outgoing attitude as well as her
intense emotions when the terrors start
to happen. She wasn't a brilliant actress
but showed alot of dynamic energy to the
set nonetheless. She can be a worthy
horror character actress in this one.
Justin Klemann (Matt) seemed to be on the
ball as well with his upsetting emotions
as well as really springing to life with
his aggressive attitude and violent
behavior too. He comes across well as the
lead male actor in the film and was the
best in the cast.
However I have never seen someone so low
on energy like Justin Kelly (John) who
seems like he was on drugs or just woke
up from a sleep reading his lines and not
getting into chracter at all. I mean who
the hell picked this dude? I felt like
puking his performance was so bad. It
makes you wonder if he was a firend of
the people making this film.
Shayne Merritt (Paul) seems to do not too
bad as one of the key supporting roles
with his upsetting emotions and anxious
attitude after encountering a horrorible
haunting death in the flick. Sometimes he
was a little too much or at times a
little lacking here and there. Great intense reactions with him begging them not to turn out the light in a certain part of the story.
Steve Christopher (Mikey) was another
attention grabber for the film with his
worrysome attitude and really knew how to
react very loudly after experiencing a
haunting that's attacking him in which he
seemed fairly natural with all that he
had to work on for this flick. A
nice screaming reaction on him crying out
to his friend in pain.
Mark Austin (Clarence Martel) had the right mean looks
to play some sort of a mobster type of
maniac and comes across with his mean
behavior but sometimes he seems a little
too over the top when he gets into an
intense rage and looks a bit amateurish
with doing this. He was a little over the top by losin control and acting insane. But however he tried the
best he could do and the more he
practises with his performances I truly
believe that he will get better at it.
An eye ball pops
out onto the floor
A body is split in half
A head is ripped off
Some blood splashing on a wall at certain
times
There's the odd thumping
and banging sounds along with some
hissing and groaning effects. Plus
there's some metal sounds too. This was
put together by Kelly Scott Key.
We have an interesting
songtrack during the closing credits
called "Born to Destroy" by a
group called Latex Novelties
which the singing sounds very hyped up
with alot of energetic keyboard and
guitar music. |
