Necrosis starts as six friends make their way up to an isolated log cabin on a mountain, the locals warn of evil but the friends don't listen & carry on. Rented by Mike (Robert Micheal Ryan) he talks of spooky legends that surround the mountain & that bad things happen there like sporadic outburst's of cannibalism & killing sprees. As a fierce snowstorm hits the mountain the six friends are trapped & the generator goes down, while trying to fix it a dead body is noticed laying in the snow which mysterious disappears a short time later. Worried the friends don't know what to do & are unsure of whats going on, could history be repeating itself as the ghosts of the murdered return for revenge or is it their over active imagination?
Apparently had the working title Dead of Winter & called Ice of the Dead in Japan I think Necrosis is more commonly known under the title Blood Snow, co-written & directed by Jason Robert Stephens I get the impression that Necrosis was meant to be a psychological horror thriller in the vein of The Shining (1980) as some slowly goes insane though sheer isolation & the appearance of various ghosts which may or may not be in his imagination. Unfortunately Necrosis is far too slow, virtually nothing happens & the character's are just not fleshed out well enough. Sure the schizophrenic guy Jerry is given some background as he's the one who goes mad but the rest of the cast are cardboard cutout teens with zero personality. The script also has problems with huge gaping questions left unanswered, OK while I get the idea of leaving the whole supernatural element ambiguous as to whether it was ghosts or just Jerry going mad but what about Mike & Karen on the snowmobile? What happened to them? The mystery surrounding the dead body is never elaborated on & in fact once it disappears it's never even so much as mentioned again. Some scenes may or may not be a dream & the film doesn't make it clear enough either way. What was Seymour doing trying to deliver supplies in the middle of the night? How did he get there if the roads were blocked? He walked? Yeah right, also why didn't that guy pick up the supplies at least? The whole back story about the Donner party is underused & Necrosis felt like it didn't really know what it wanted to be, a straight ghost story or a psychological thriller & ends up being neither really. At about 90 odd minutes long Necrosis is slow with few character's, few incidents & little story.
The film looks alright, there are few scenes with ghosts but little to no gore, there's a couple of brief moments of cannibalism & a couple of people get shot but nothing else. The setting is quite nice although the log cabin in a wood is a staple of the horror genre, the CGI snow fall is rather poor & there's never enough snow around to truly convince me that the friends were totally stranded. An appearance by 80's pop singer Tiffany is the only real thing of note about the entire film really, I can't say I recognised her but then I only ever saw her in that I Think We're Alone pop video from 1989.
Filmed in the San Bernardino National Forest in California the production values are alright but nothing amazing, a large portion of the film seemed dubbed to me which is a bit distracting at times. The acting is OK, Tiffany is alright from what I remember while genre regular Michael Berryman has a small role.
Necrosis is a pretty poor low budget psychological horror thriller that has various plot holes & a sense that more could have been done with the premise, watch The Shining again instead as it's loads better.
Apparently had the working title Dead of Winter & called Ice of the Dead in Japan I think Necrosis is more commonly known under the title Blood Snow, co-written & directed by Jason Robert Stephens I get the impression that Necrosis was meant to be a psychological horror thriller in the vein of The Shining (1980) as some slowly goes insane though sheer isolation & the appearance of various ghosts which may or may not be in his imagination. Unfortunately Necrosis is far too slow, virtually nothing happens & the character's are just not fleshed out well enough. Sure the schizophrenic guy Jerry is given some background as he's the one who goes mad but the rest of the cast are cardboard cutout teens with zero personality. The script also has problems with huge gaping questions left unanswered, OK while I get the idea of leaving the whole supernatural element ambiguous as to whether it was ghosts or just Jerry going mad but what about Mike & Karen on the snowmobile? What happened to them? The mystery surrounding the dead body is never elaborated on & in fact once it disappears it's never even so much as mentioned again. Some scenes may or may not be a dream & the film doesn't make it clear enough either way. What was Seymour doing trying to deliver supplies in the middle of the night? How did he get there if the roads were blocked? He walked? Yeah right, also why didn't that guy pick up the supplies at least? The whole back story about the Donner party is underused & Necrosis felt like it didn't really know what it wanted to be, a straight ghost story or a psychological thriller & ends up being neither really. At about 90 odd minutes long Necrosis is slow with few character's, few incidents & little story.
The film looks alright, there are few scenes with ghosts but little to no gore, there's a couple of brief moments of cannibalism & a couple of people get shot but nothing else. The setting is quite nice although the log cabin in a wood is a staple of the horror genre, the CGI snow fall is rather poor & there's never enough snow around to truly convince me that the friends were totally stranded. An appearance by 80's pop singer Tiffany is the only real thing of note about the entire film really, I can't say I recognised her but then I only ever saw her in that I Think We're Alone pop video from 1989.
Filmed in the San Bernardino National Forest in California the production values are alright but nothing amazing, a large portion of the film seemed dubbed to me which is a bit distracting at times. The acting is OK, Tiffany is alright from what I remember while genre regular Michael Berryman has a small role.
Necrosis is a pretty poor low budget psychological horror thriller that has various plot holes & a sense that more could have been done with the premise, watch The Shining again instead as it's loads better.