Review of One Way Trip

"One Way Trip" is a Swiss/Austrian co-production that resulted in this German-language horror film back in 2011, so it's not too new anymore either. I must say that I know none of the cast and crew here I believe, but that's not too surprising, but also not necessarily a problem because I think that story is always more important really. But sadly these 85 minutes also lack in the story department. The ending was somewhat fine overall indicating the possibility of a sequel that never got made however. But I don't mind it as everything before that was utterly forgettable. Never a decent character study, the acting was mediocre probably and still among the film's better components and also this horror film (slasher) was never as scary as I wanted it to be. So this really shoudl have been better in many departments and production values for me to give it a positive recommendation and while I like quality horror occasionally, I cannot say it is among my very favorite genres. But that's just the way it is. I don't think personal bias had too much to do here with me giving this film a thumbs-down. Only a but maybe, but the rating here on imdb seems to confirm my theory. What else. Oh yeah, I also felt that the film was too dark visually and yes I know it's a horror movie, but I somehow believe they could have done better in terms of light effects, cinematography, direction etc. There are positive aspects too, it's certainly not 100% failure which my rating should indicate. The writers here take some components from big success horror films of past years and decades and turn them into quality I guess. At least occasionally. Nonetheless I must say that the negative here is still more frequent than the positive and I am personally glad it was a relatively short film. There wasn't one single scene or moment or plot twist that really impressed me, so it is just not possible for me to give this one a positive recommendation. It's really only one to be seen by the very biggest genre fans and maybe not even by them as this film has zero guilty pleasure potential too. It's just not a success from any perspective. Watch something else instead.