Well... maybe not exactly, but you can see the DIE HARD influence in this horror flick. It's actually not that bad; low budget, but the production values are really strong. It keeps moving at a good clip as well, and it's never boring.
Though I thought it was worth the rental, I did have two problems with it that prevented it from being even better than it was:
(1) Some really big plot holes. (SPOILERS) When the killer gets out of the asylum, why doesn't he just hightail it out of the area, since that was his original intent all along? What's the cause of that big explosion in the basement? Why were the cops late in arriving in big force? Why in the beginning of the movie is the killer immediately thrown in an asylum before getting a sanity hearing? (Couldn't the cops hold him in a cell before then?) These are just some of many questions that come up.
(2) I don't know if the director was showing "good taste", or if the movie was trimmed before its release, but it seems that many moments when we should be seeing gore happen off-screen or right out of camera range. Why tease the audience this way?
Though I thought it was worth the rental, I did have two problems with it that prevented it from being even better than it was:
(1) Some really big plot holes. (SPOILERS) When the killer gets out of the asylum, why doesn't he just hightail it out of the area, since that was his original intent all along? What's the cause of that big explosion in the basement? Why were the cops late in arriving in big force? Why in the beginning of the movie is the killer immediately thrown in an asylum before getting a sanity hearing? (Couldn't the cops hold him in a cell before then?) These are just some of many questions that come up.
(2) I don't know if the director was showing "good taste", or if the movie was trimmed before its release, but it seems that many moments when we should be seeing gore happen off-screen or right out of camera range. Why tease the audience this way?