100 Ghost Street: The Return of Richard Speck

Next to no redeeming qualities at all 100 Ghost Street: The Return of Richard Speck apart from a decent setting and that it's short. The movie looks amateurish, the editing is so slipshod to the point of inducing nausea or a headache and it takes the ghost-story-in-a-haunted-setting to extremities with very dark lighting to the point of some of the goings-on verging on incomprehensible. The special effects at best are risible. The sound is muddied with the music over-bearing and the dialogue and its delivery not always easy to hear, while the writing is so awkwardly delivered with a sense of bad improvisation. With the story, don't expect a documentary-like movie profiling the life and crimes of one of the worst and most sickening mass murder cases there's ever been and the perpetrator Richard Speck, if you want that sort of programme/movie you're better off watching an episode of Deranged Killers. 100 Ghost Street made it clear that it wasn't going to be that kind of movie, even so though that gave the writers no excuse to foul up basic details and facts(like where the crimes happened), another one of countless examples of The Asylum not doing their research, which will confuse anybody who watches and decides to look the Richard Speck case up further. The storytelling is just lazy and predictable, starting off slow and staying slow with a lot of scenes falling into interminably dull category. 100 Ghost Street is short, but with the pace as tedious as it is and that the creepiness, thrill and tension levels are at numbers below zero it sure doesn't feel like it. As for the direction, what direction(?), the characters are completely personality-less and annoying(the antagonist nowhere near sinister enough) and constant shouting and static posing seems to be pretty much all that passes for acting here. All in all, just unwatchably bad and that is scarier than Richard Speck, one of those where human being is insulting to all other humans. 1/10 Bethany Cox