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Summary: By the Godz I Loved it!
Review: Insane much! This movie rocked the scalez when it came to mixing a hint of "The Evil Dead" with "House on Haunted Hill"... I was in eyeball heaven. I couldn't turn away from the TV in fear that I might have miss something vital to the story/plot or miss a "jump sequence". All in all a A++++ Movie... must buy, a must rent, either way come-on Seth Green is in it. He rockz & made the ending VERY interesting.
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Summary: weird but also interesting
Review: its sorta weird but cool and Green like you've never seen him before. You have to see it to beleive it
Rating:
Summary: weird but also interesting
Review: its sorta weird but cool and Seth Green like you've never seen him before. You have to see it to beleive it
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Summary: Don't bother
Review: Like the previous writer, I, too, have been waiting to see this movie. Unfortunately, it did not live up to my expectations. I did, however, enjoy the sets and the exterior scenes. Very surreal and spooky. Beyond that, though, the movie was maddening. The script was plodding and confusing, the dialogue lame and stilted. The plot did not make sense, (and I enjoyed and understood movies such as Memento). It actually became so frustrating to follow that the movie became boring. Character devlopment was nil. With the exception of the first five minutes of the movie, it was a waste of a precious two hours of my life.
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Summary: Exclude the Attic
Review: Not entertaining.
Poorly acted.
Really bad plot.
Silly characters in a technicolor land with no purpose.
Basically, do not bother or waste your time.
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Summary: Dull and boring
Review: One of the worst I've seen... I'm trying to figure out which audience this was made for: a lot of nudity, a dumb story, bad acting, characters you don't care about, bad premise, bad direction, etc.
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Summary: Rod Serling would be proud
Review: Stayed up late watching this one. The Attic Expeditions is more like a Twilight Zone episode than anything else. Confusion is the definite word here when viewing this film. Magnificent performances by all. Finally got to put the name to the face when it came to Jeffrey Combs. I've always wondered who that fella was, and I'm quite sure that I'll be looking deeper into his career on film now that I know. All in all, the movie was as mind-boggling as Vanilla Sky and Memento combined. The music [...], though. Did not quite fit into the scenes.
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Summary: Esoteric Minds and the Doctors That Break Them
Review: The Attic Expeditions, met most unfairly by a storm of rejection, is not a film for the atypical movie-munching masses. In fact, when my friends first saw it they told me that this was a throwaway and that it was something to avoid, but, defying their wishes because of Mr. Combs, I picked it up, watched it, and was thoroughly smitten by the complexity of the product itself. It is this exact reason that I think this film finds many a negative opinions because, unlike most movies, it works through multifaceted means, coupling a rich plot and the stunning array of quality actors with a concept to grasp the attention of those wanting a bit more than blood and the beastly. Typified as "the thinking person's horror movie," and rightly so, it spends a great deal of time addressing the psychologically barred windows within the human condition and adding in a dash of the esoteric to boot. Here we have an oddly enjoyable experience pitting the incomparable Jeffrey Combs, playing the wonderfully diabolical Doctor Ek, against the psyche of our main character, Trevor Blackburn, a man awakening in a sanitarium after a four year hiatus from reality with only fragments of yesterday to feed from. The good doctor muddles the matter for our memory-devoid lead even more by telling him that he was involved in the bloody murder of his fiancee while participating in, as Blackburn himself supposedly described it before his little 48 month nap, "a magikal ceremony gone awry." Ek then tells Blackburn not to worry about the reluctancy of his mind, that he will be giving him the best care possible by sending him to the esteemed "House of Love" and that his memory may come back to him there. From the moment he steps foot into the House that Ek Built Blackburn can tell something is awry, though, for everything from those strangely patterned walls that induce a feeling of Deja-vu to the introductions to his curiously deranged cohabitants that seem oddly untrustworthy makes him uncomfortable, making him (and the viewer) wonder what's really going on. His dreams further complicate things, showing him a place in the attic with a somewhat familiar trunk in it, one that holds secrets in both reality and within Trevor's mind. Even in the opening sequences you can tell that this movie is going to have some plot complexities and defy the atypical approach to psychological horror, introducing the viewer to a strange framework from the initial "waking up on the operating table and not knowing who you are or what's going on" stages to the diced bits of memory that Blackburn slowly beings to recall and, finally, to both the build and the ending that keeps you guessing until the end. There are even a few Great Old One connotations sprinkled in there for the fun (and to make the ceremony seem a bit more delicious), further getting my Lovecraftian blood pumping. Its worth watch multiple times if only for the torment of it all.
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Summary: Great flick
Review: This is not your common movie because it is basically all inside someone's mind. Awesome symbolism and some of the best unexpected frightful image sequences ever (if you saw it you know which ones i am talking about). This movie will have you doubting whats real and will literally drive you insane...but of course thats the beauty of it :)
Rating:
Summary: Great flick
Review: This is not your common movie because it is basically all inside someone's mind. Awesome symbolism and some of the best unexpected frightful image sequences ever (if you saw it you know which ones i am talking about). This movie will have you doubting whats real and will literally drive you insane...but of course thats the beauty of it :)
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