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FieCrier's rating
An OK mystery. Parts of the instrumental score from the film are used here and there.
Pacing a tad sluggish; at about 39 minutes it definitely could have come in at under a half hour and still have room for commercials. Curiously, one external reviewer found the *film* too slow and this pilot to be the better of the two!
I like Alan Cummings in some things - and as host of PBS Mystery! - but doesn't work for Daryl Zero. I don't think it's just that Bill Pullman embodied the character perfectly, but that Cummings just isn't right somehow. It didn't help that the script isn't at the level as the film either. David Julian Hirsh doesn't have a lot to do as Jeff Winslow, the rough equivalent of the film's Steve Arlo (Ben Stiller).
Still, as a huge fan of the movie, I'm glad to have had a chance to see the attempt at adapting it for television.
Pacing a tad sluggish; at about 39 minutes it definitely could have come in at under a half hour and still have room for commercials. Curiously, one external reviewer found the *film* too slow and this pilot to be the better of the two!
I like Alan Cummings in some things - and as host of PBS Mystery! - but doesn't work for Daryl Zero. I don't think it's just that Bill Pullman embodied the character perfectly, but that Cummings just isn't right somehow. It didn't help that the script isn't at the level as the film either. David Julian Hirsh doesn't have a lot to do as Jeff Winslow, the rough equivalent of the film's Steve Arlo (Ben Stiller).
Still, as a huge fan of the movie, I'm glad to have had a chance to see the attempt at adapting it for television.
Something of an 80s vibe, but with gore effects even more primitive than what was being done in that decade. A lot of the people we're introduced to get killed pretty quickly. The kills themselves are quick too, no bother being taken to add any suspense. The bowling alley location felt underutilized, like they should have taken more time to study the place and storyboard.
Having a Heaven's Gate-esque cult was a decent idea.
"Grab Your Balls, We're Going Bowling" was an amusing song.
Francesca Capaldi is certainly cute. She's not given much to do. None of the characters here have depth or development.
I can't recommend it. Best advice that could be given to a prospective viewer would be to keep looking elsewhere. Odds are pretty good that they'll be able to hit on something better.
Having a Heaven's Gate-esque cult was a decent idea.
"Grab Your Balls, We're Going Bowling" was an amusing song.
Francesca Capaldi is certainly cute. She's not given much to do. None of the characters here have depth or development.
I can't recommend it. Best advice that could be given to a prospective viewer would be to keep looking elsewhere. Odds are pretty good that they'll be able to hit on something better.
The look of it and the concept are reasonably dark. However, so little happens in the film that it clearly should not have been expanded from the short film Baghead (2017). Not without a great deal more consideration as to how engrossing what was being added, anyway. Instead it's the same thing over and again. People use the witch's power even though they shouldn't. People think they have a good idea how to beat the witch but they haven't really thought it through.
Seemingly supposed to be set in Berlin or somewhere in Germany? However, one never has a good sense of place. Likewise, it feels practically the product of a small amateur theater company in that there's never more than three people onscreen at once, and the entire cast is barely larger than that. On the flight to Germany, the main character is the only person shown on the plane, for example.
The father character makes money sometimes by charging 2,000 for a two-minute visit with Baghead. How do people ever learn he does that? Nobody ever visits except Neil. How did Neil ever find out about it? If somebody really had a shapeshifting witch that could channel the dead, wouldn't multitudes of people be constantly trying to visit even despite the cost and the danger? Ridiculous.
Seemingly supposed to be set in Berlin or somewhere in Germany? However, one never has a good sense of place. Likewise, it feels practically the product of a small amateur theater company in that there's never more than three people onscreen at once, and the entire cast is barely larger than that. On the flight to Germany, the main character is the only person shown on the plane, for example.
The father character makes money sometimes by charging 2,000 for a two-minute visit with Baghead. How do people ever learn he does that? Nobody ever visits except Neil. How did Neil ever find out about it? If somebody really had a shapeshifting witch that could channel the dead, wouldn't multitudes of people be constantly trying to visit even despite the cost and the danger? Ridiculous.