Maya

Of course I had never heard about the 1989 Italian horror movie "Maya", prior to stumbling upon it by random luck here in 2024. And given my love and admiration of all things horror, of course I opted to sit down and watch what director Marcello Avallone had to deliver.

The storyline in "Maya" was brutally boring and felt just like random shots captured by the director and put together in an attmept to make a coherent movie. I managed to suffer through a staggering 34 minutes of nonsense before I tossed the towel in the ring and gave up on finish watching this movie. Writers Marcello Avallone, Andrea Purgatori and Maurizio Tedesco just utterly failed to deliver anything worthwhile here.

Needless to say that with my limited exposure to the Italian cinema, then I wasn't familiar with the actors and actresses on the cast list for this movie.

Sadly, I happened to sit through an Englished dubbed version of the movie. I dislike dubbing in movies in general, so having people speak English throughout the course of the movie was not all that appealing. But at least the dubbing wasn't among the worst of dubbed works in movies that I have stumbled upon. But then again, a movie set to take place in Mexico, why would they be speaking Italian there? So the original language wouldn't really have played out well here.

Don't waste your time, money or effort on "Maya". It just simply isn't worth it.

My rating of "Maya" lands on a one out of ten stars.