seymour_sp
Joined Jul 2015
Welcome to the new profile
Our updates are still in development. While the previous version of the profile is no longer accessible, we're actively working on improvements, and some of the missing features will be returning soon! Stay tuned for their return. In the meantime, the Ratings Analysis is still available on our iOS and Android apps, found on the profile page. To view your Rating Distribution(s) by Year and Genre, please refer to our new Help guide.
Badges3
To learn how to earn badges, go to the badges help page.
Reviews29
seymour_sp's rating
Most of these Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense yarns would have made decent enough tight 30-minute episodes but many long outstay their welcome and most are, of course, pretty cheesy. It's Hammer, and it's the 1980s - how could they not be?
This one would have made an excellent 30-minute episode - and I didn't see the great Twilight Zone-like twist ending coming at all.
Trouble was, it was so padded out, with such over the top and completely unconvincing acting by the father and some really silly stuff going on that was so obviously there just to drag it out to the requisite length, that I was struggling to care about any of it by the time the twist came.
This series featured some fairly major British and American acting talents of the period, but sadly this one missed out.
This one would have made an excellent 30-minute episode - and I didn't see the great Twilight Zone-like twist ending coming at all.
Trouble was, it was so padded out, with such over the top and completely unconvincing acting by the father and some really silly stuff going on that was so obviously there just to drag it out to the requisite length, that I was struggling to care about any of it by the time the twist came.
This series featured some fairly major British and American acting talents of the period, but sadly this one missed out.
And I say that as a Brit, so it's nothing to do with bias.
Given the writer and the cast I had high hopes, but they were largely dashed. I must say that there were great acting performances throughout, but honestly: the UK half of the story was ludicrous almost from the outset, and I very nearly stopped watching during the first Holly Wells/David Tennant thumb drive scene, so aggravated was I by the way things escalated in such a totally unrealistic way.
Then, almost every ridiculous decision made and every far-fetched event that transpired thereafter just added to my irritation; but I felt I had to see it through because it was certainly a compelling story despite the artifice.
Long before the end, though, it had reached the point were I was almost shouting at the screen to tell them to stop doing such stupid things. (And without giving too much away: a certain important feature was supposed to be totally soundproof and impervious to harm - with a hammer, for instance - come what may?!)
I know that it was all about panicked people doing irrational things and seeing events get rapidly out of hand, but there were far too many holes to allow me to suspend disbelief - and there was much that required suspension!
The Stanley Tucci stuff, on the other hand: all very cool and classy. I only wish that could have been married to a far more believable companion story.
Make sure you stay through the credits, though: there's a fun twist!
Given the writer and the cast I had high hopes, but they were largely dashed. I must say that there were great acting performances throughout, but honestly: the UK half of the story was ludicrous almost from the outset, and I very nearly stopped watching during the first Holly Wells/David Tennant thumb drive scene, so aggravated was I by the way things escalated in such a totally unrealistic way.
Then, almost every ridiculous decision made and every far-fetched event that transpired thereafter just added to my irritation; but I felt I had to see it through because it was certainly a compelling story despite the artifice.
Long before the end, though, it had reached the point were I was almost shouting at the screen to tell them to stop doing such stupid things. (And without giving too much away: a certain important feature was supposed to be totally soundproof and impervious to harm - with a hammer, for instance - come what may?!)
I know that it was all about panicked people doing irrational things and seeing events get rapidly out of hand, but there were far too many holes to allow me to suspend disbelief - and there was much that required suspension!
The Stanley Tucci stuff, on the other hand: all very cool and classy. I only wish that could have been married to a far more believable companion story.
Make sure you stay through the credits, though: there's a fun twist!
Yes, there's a lot of violence and gore, as others have said, but much of it is so Grand Guignol that it's almost as funny as it is messy.
The film doesn't take itself too seriously and, at a trim 95 minutes, it moves along at a cracking pace, with Samara Weaving putting in a great performance as the bride who is at once horrified, contemptuous and grimly determined to survive whatever horrors are thrown her way.
And the climax is a real treat!
The film doesn't take itself too seriously and, at a trim 95 minutes, it moves along at a cracking pace, with Samara Weaving putting in a great performance as the bride who is at once horrified, contemptuous and grimly determined to survive whatever horrors are thrown her way.
And the climax is a real treat!