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Spiderhole (2010)
Awful. Not even the good kind of awful.
The movie starts out with a news report about an unsolved case of a missing little girl who disappeared many years ago.
A bunch of grungy, homeless art students in England decide to take refuge in a (seemingly) abandoned house at night. They discover scratch marks (indicating a past escape attempt) and bloodstained clothes. Yet they still choose to stay in the house.Smart move. They wake up the next day with all the windows boarded up and barred with steel. They come across a key & hidden holes in the wall.
Main victims/deaths. I don't remember their names so I just gave them nicknames: Grungemaster (gets his eye cut out and is unintentionally beaten to death by BKS and SBG),British equivalent of Kristen Stewart (ends up being the last girl and cannibalized), Bitchy Grunge Chick (gets her legs sawed off), and sniveling blonde guy with bad teeth (gets his hand cutoff).
Long story short, the house is secretly inhabited by this creepy old guy. Creepy Old Guy has a lot of medical equipment which he uses to torture, kill, and dismembers people for random body parts.(The motives behind this are hard to get and all the audience is given is that it has something to do with his father's experience as a soldier in WW2.) One by one everyone suffers some kind of torture and dies. The "last girl" out of the cast who was close to making an escape is eventually dragged by Creepy Old Guy into a dark, dingy room. A feral-looking young woman lurks in the corner, who then crawls over in an animalistic manner, and (it's implied) eats her alive. The shocking twist DUNDUNDUN is that the cannibal girl is the same one who was kidnapped and presumed dead for years, and that she was the one who had left the keys/tools for future captives to try and escape.
I wasn't expecting a whole lot since this is a horror movie, but they could have tried harder. It's very low budget and the acting isn't very good. This could have been a little better if they put as much effort into the story, production, and the acting as they did into the "shock" factor.
Half Light (2006)
Mediocre murder mystery.
Everything about this movie is just so awkward and hollow and poorly done. Demi Moore plays a writer who starts having hallucinations and episodes following the death of her little son. She tries to cope by moving to a small, tight-knit town in Scotland. While looking for research/info. at a remote island, she meets an attractive young lighthouse keeper by the name of Angus McCullough (who we later find is *GASP* actually a long-dead guy who lived there, and the guy Moore's character meets is part of a conspiracy with her friend/husband,to murder her and get her 4 million pound writing fortune).I think the creepy psychic woman would have made a better main character. The character's behaviors are aren't very believable: For example, within the space of about 4 minutes Moore goes from being depressed and grieving to a warm sex scene.
The soundtrack of the movie mainly consists of cliché Gaelic music, and a theme that sounds like a really obvious ripoff of The Exorcist. It's kind of annoying. The camera work is pretty cheap, too. It's very easy to spot the moments where they had to have multiple takes for a scene transition.
Overall this movie wasn't exciting or suspenseful. The only morbid entertainment I really got was laughing at the insanity of Moore's character, the hammed-up murder scenes & how poor the whole film was.