The Damned Thing

Honestly this movie can only be described as truly terrible. The abomination of horror films is what lies within.

I found myself laughing throughout the movie at the attempts to scare the audience.

I Really do not recommend this movie, and genuinely believe you'd find your time be better spent watching paint dry.

For a start, the acting wasn't particularly great. Admittedly some actors were better than others in this movie, but they were far and few between, and there was a lot to be desired. The poor cinematic techniques did not support the acting in anyway either. In some scenes, the shakiness of the camera, along with the shaky acting skills, made the movie feel rather amateurish. The lack of cinematic techniques and the inappropriate application of them, in my opinion, damaged any potential this movie had, where they may have been able to salvage it into a half decent movie if applied correctly.

The story line was rather scattered. There were 3 separate stories that were supposed to connect to a central theme. The stories didn't seem to logically connect together. I appreciate that they were trying to create something that was different from typical and overdone movies in the genre, but the execution was poor.

Just please don't waste your time on this movie.

I've seen so many horrors, especially those underground ones, that's why I'm here, commenting on those poorly viewed or rated in order to straighten some things up. This one looked like so many before, another cheesy copycat of everything else ever made.. but wait!

Wait! Watch it till its very end, after about 40 minutes, when the first story ends you start to understand it. It actually has a nice plot to it, some good stories, not the best acting out there but the script is indeed a good one. I declare myself truly pleasantly surprised. I did enjoy this and even tho it is very unknown I will recommend it. If you are a horror junkie armed with a little patience, see this one. Most likely you will not be disappointed!

Cheers!

Now the cheap part you can expect. Horror movies are made for many reasons. One is because you can achieve making them with little money and there is a big market for them. If you also put more than one story into your movie you are bound to attract a bigger crowd. The thing is, that the whole story does not make a lot of sense. Even when it tries to tie things up at the end.

It also doesn't help that you have people involved mostly that couldn't act if their life depended on it (and at least their characters life is depending on it, so fail). While it does have a couple of good scares and maybe a moment or two where it almost shines, the overall verdict is: Stay away from this. Doesn't mean that the filmmaker here may not be able to pull something off. Maybe his next movie, with better resources will show better results

The acting is beyond amateurish and bad. It's completely horrible. The dialogue never flows. It's full of pauses and devoid of natural emotion. Everything is forced by bad actors, making it completely cringe worthy. I've seen better acting from teenagers using cell phone cameras to make short videos.

In addition, it starts off with a faux interview, with a guy throwing out words like positive energy, negative energy, dark matter and vortexes, but they are just words the writer has heard, without understanding anything about what they are. So it all comes off as nothing but meaningless double talk. Us a few "science" words to lend credence to bull. For anyone who actually knows what those thing are, it sounds absolutely ridiculous, to the point of complete idiocy. It's beyond nonsense.

Then there is the entire premise, all set up, based on pseudo science crossed with pseudo religion, making it a double dose of crap! I can suspend my disbelief fir movie magic, if the stories are good and the basic principals used, even in science fiction, fit within the realm of scientific possibility, written by someone who understands the science being talked about. So hearing a ship explode in space or the rumble of its engines, I can deal with. But this one goes too far down the rabbit hole of utter crap and complete nonsense to tolerate!

Anyone with intelligence and knowledge, will find this movie so bad as to be an insulting waste of time!

This movie is actually titled "Hotel Hell"- which doesn't make much sense. I am confused as to why it takes place at a hotel when none of the stories have anything to do with that hotel in which he hires a videographer to tour with him. I liked the twist at the end, but I am so confused as I really thought that when he was discussing the rooms that the 3 anthologies would actually be related to the hotel in some way shape or form...It was a solid campy B-movie horror flick, so please do not go into it assuming that it will have any deep meaning or be a work of art. I just enjoyed it for what it was and, if you decide to watch it, go into it with little to no expectations.