Hidden 3D *contains spoilers* Hidden 3D, a 2011 movie based on an old building underneath which lays a mad-woman's laboratory, although technically it should be called a torture room. Once she dies, her lucky son inherits this massive house. It seems ideal, he hasn't got much, living in a run-down room alone and suddenly out of nowhere he gets a huge, isolated house with which he can do pretty much whatever he wants. I have to be honest; none of this attracted me to the movie. What caught my attention was the fact Devon Bostick had a role in it. So I sat down and prepared to have fun watching a favourite actor of mine in my favourite film genre: horror. Sadly, I was disappointed. The opening gave me little hope. A scientific explanation of some new technical machine, an explanation none of which I understood and none of which I cared about, before moving to show the crazy lady in her natural habitat: a dark dank room in which she could freely torture young pregnant ladies as her innocent son stands by. My first question was what is with her neat hair and suit? She looks like she should be working in a travel agency, not hanging round in creepy basements.
The opening credits gave me slightly more hope, hearing creepy music and watching names of actors mainly unknown to me (except of course the lovely Devon) and a bunch of creepy pictures appear on the screen. However, as soon as that was over I quickly became bored and fed up. I watched as the lucky son who inherits the house randomly decides to invite a bunch of people to the creepy place, however we are given no explanation of who they are or why he chose them (this IS where an explanation would have been handy). Also, there is practically no character development, we learn barely a thing about the people invited and therefore as they all die I feel nothing except slight relief they are finally gone.
Then we are introduced to a janitor who dies and who seems to have absolutely no place in the movie, we see some creepy shadows and a-long comes the toilet scene which makes no sense whatsoever, it was clearly designed as a scene for a ghost movie and got mixed with the wrong papers (or so I hope, otherwise there is no hope for the writers). And then the flies. We never find out exactly what these flies are about or why they are flying everywhere and being weird. Probably, they would have looked cool in the 3D but I was not watching it in 3D and as far as I saw, there was no reason for them to be there. They were just random flies put it to make the 3D aspect mean something. And THEN when I am only just hanging by a thread they kill off my only reason to continue watching, and dear old Devbo is eaten in a scene that cannot be called either horror or gory. I was stunned by the complete lack of emotion this evoked in me and this was what brought home to me just how outstandingly rubbish this film really is. You can find better scares homemade and uploaded onto you-tube. Don't even get me started on the monsters. I could go on for hours about how bad they were. And that bull impression done by the youngest of them was just weird. I barely made it to the end, but all I can say is that it wasn't worth my making it. An awful and easily foreseeable 'twist' and a quick ending- I guess the producer and director realised what a mistake they'd made with attempting this movie and decided to put a quick finish to it. I would not recommend that you see it; any horror lover will be horrifically disappointed as I was. The only thing scary is how bad it is. Rating: 2/10 (One star is for the casting director for picking Devbo, clearly his only moment of success throughout, the other is for the setting, which was alright.)
The opening credits gave me slightly more hope, hearing creepy music and watching names of actors mainly unknown to me (except of course the lovely Devon) and a bunch of creepy pictures appear on the screen. However, as soon as that was over I quickly became bored and fed up. I watched as the lucky son who inherits the house randomly decides to invite a bunch of people to the creepy place, however we are given no explanation of who they are or why he chose them (this IS where an explanation would have been handy). Also, there is practically no character development, we learn barely a thing about the people invited and therefore as they all die I feel nothing except slight relief they are finally gone.
Then we are introduced to a janitor who dies and who seems to have absolutely no place in the movie, we see some creepy shadows and a-long comes the toilet scene which makes no sense whatsoever, it was clearly designed as a scene for a ghost movie and got mixed with the wrong papers (or so I hope, otherwise there is no hope for the writers). And then the flies. We never find out exactly what these flies are about or why they are flying everywhere and being weird. Probably, they would have looked cool in the 3D but I was not watching it in 3D and as far as I saw, there was no reason for them to be there. They were just random flies put it to make the 3D aspect mean something. And THEN when I am only just hanging by a thread they kill off my only reason to continue watching, and dear old Devbo is eaten in a scene that cannot be called either horror or gory. I was stunned by the complete lack of emotion this evoked in me and this was what brought home to me just how outstandingly rubbish this film really is. You can find better scares homemade and uploaded onto you-tube. Don't even get me started on the monsters. I could go on for hours about how bad they were. And that bull impression done by the youngest of them was just weird. I barely made it to the end, but all I can say is that it wasn't worth my making it. An awful and easily foreseeable 'twist' and a quick ending- I guess the producer and director realised what a mistake they'd made with attempting this movie and decided to put a quick finish to it. I would not recommend that you see it; any horror lover will be horrifically disappointed as I was. The only thing scary is how bad it is. Rating: 2/10 (One star is for the casting director for picking Devbo, clearly his only moment of success throughout, the other is for the setting, which was alright.)