2009 - 79 mins. - Not Rated
D: Bo Buckley
C: Lydia Chandler, Tim Morris, Bill Oberst Jr., Capel Kane, Will Triplett
Group of students out in the swamp studying wild life for extra credit run amok of a family of cannibalistic killers.
Let's be honest. This premise has been done to death a million times! Dismal serves as a reminder of the some of the earlier films that came out before it. Dismal lacks the realism and the grittiness of Just Before Dawn. Dismal lacks the terrifying set pieces of The Hills Have Eyes. And it's nowhere near as exciting or as thrilling as the more recent Wrong Turn. That's not to say that Dismal is a bad movie. It isn't. It's competently made. It competently acted. Dismal has some moderately suspenseful scenes. And Dismal has a few cringe worthy moments of gore and blood letting. The problem is, it's just...
D: Bo Buckley
C: Lydia Chandler, Tim Morris, Bill Oberst Jr., Capel Kane, Will Triplett
Group of students out in the swamp studying wild life for extra credit run amok of a family of cannibalistic killers.
Let's be honest. This premise has been done to death a million times! Dismal serves as a reminder of the some of the earlier films that came out before it. Dismal lacks the realism and the grittiness of Just Before Dawn. Dismal lacks the terrifying set pieces of The Hills Have Eyes. And it's nowhere near as exciting or as thrilling as the more recent Wrong Turn. That's not to say that Dismal is a bad movie. It isn't. It's competently made. It competently acted. Dismal has some moderately suspenseful scenes. And Dismal has a few cringe worthy moments of gore and blood letting. The problem is, it's just...
- 2/13/2011
- by Big Daddy aka Brandon Sites
- Big Daddy Horror Reviews - Interviews
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