Storms isolate various mountain villages and a lone man with nightmares about the killing of a baby crashes his car into THE DEVIL'S STONE during the story and the rest of the movie is spent in an incredibly dry looking--after supposed storms--with the guy have nightmares waking up, talking to people, walking around, having nightmares, waking up, talking to people, walking around, having nightmares....
You get the idea. The lead is not a very good actor nor memorable looking. Supporting cast is better really the moodiest thing is a large abandoned building in the village and some effective static shots of various rooms in various degrees of decay.
The impact of the nightmares is weakened by either low budget special effects and that fact they all come from slicker movies. Though it's been years since I've seen anyone do the twitching sped up head movements from Jacob's Ladder.
The backstory to the town is finally revealed and fairly routine for fans of classic horror films, yet then they go on the reveal other small backstory deatils that really aren't needed.
There is lots of talk and what amounts to the action scenes--steadi cams running around, don't really cut together very smoothly and the blood effects and Silent Hill type patients and nurses are either rather cheesily done or shot with too much light on them, or both. There is something about whatever format the "film" was shot on that tends to make the admitedly in focus images look a bit flat and videotapish.
The ending doesn't make much sense and comes about 30 minutes after it should. Music score is occasionally effective, if you stick with the end credits there is a short little bit that's kind of effective.
Overlong, overly talky, under funded, under acted.... Some potential here occasionally but not realized. A few nice mountain trail and rocky locations but for the most part you don't get much Alpine here.
You get the idea. The lead is not a very good actor nor memorable looking. Supporting cast is better really the moodiest thing is a large abandoned building in the village and some effective static shots of various rooms in various degrees of decay.
The impact of the nightmares is weakened by either low budget special effects and that fact they all come from slicker movies. Though it's been years since I've seen anyone do the twitching sped up head movements from Jacob's Ladder.
The backstory to the town is finally revealed and fairly routine for fans of classic horror films, yet then they go on the reveal other small backstory deatils that really aren't needed.
There is lots of talk and what amounts to the action scenes--steadi cams running around, don't really cut together very smoothly and the blood effects and Silent Hill type patients and nurses are either rather cheesily done or shot with too much light on them, or both. There is something about whatever format the "film" was shot on that tends to make the admitedly in focus images look a bit flat and videotapish.
The ending doesn't make much sense and comes about 30 minutes after it should. Music score is occasionally effective, if you stick with the end credits there is a short little bit that's kind of effective.
Overlong, overly talky, under funded, under acted.... Some potential here occasionally but not realized. A few nice mountain trail and rocky locations but for the most part you don't get much Alpine here.
