GL84
After inheriting a decrepit hospital from his mother, a man and his friends decide to investigate the area only to find it inhabited by the ghosts of her former patients and must try to get out alive.This is a decidedly decent enough offering that does manage to overcome it's few problems. One of the biggest issues is the fact that there's never any getting around the fact that it's all-too-familiar and plays out quite much like the dozen other films that employ similar elements. The dark family secret, the isolated house, the group of friends visiting that are going to decide what to do with the rest of the property, it all feels too similar and reminds of other films quite readily, often-times making it seem like this one isn't necessarily all that important to get through. This is certainly compounded by the fact that the film's central plot comes undone by a character's speech to one of the victims whereupon the whole plot becomes unraveled and renders the entire film a moot point by doing so, forcing itself to correct this with an incredibly lame and convoluted excuse to try to save face when it really doesn't have any other choice here. That is certainly one of the biggest flaws a film can have, where a character ends up revealing a crucial plot-point that effectively renders the purpose of the entire film null and void, and it's not all that often a film can overcome that. Luckily, it does try with a truly wonderful and wholly creepy setting here that really does effectively capture the decrepit hospital look quite well with the dark, endless corridors, secret underground tunnels and blocked-off passages which give off a really unnerving feeling that entering it isn't the wisest decision in the world. That makes the ghost attacks quite chilling when they occur, with plenty of leaping out from behind doorways and walls, standing behind them unseen, blocking off escape routes or tackling someone and dragging them off-camera among others found here, so this tends to accentuate the creepy feeling of the building quite well. This also happens to give it a much bigger sense of action in the latter half so it seems quite thrilling at the right moments with he build-up to the finale, weak as it might be, but it does do enough to make it watchable if not extraordinary.Rated R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.
Annie Knox
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.)
alex (doorsscorpywag)
What happens when you take a group of actors with the collective acting ability of a plank of wood and put them in a creepy monastery. Hidden 3D The 3D effects of the title were pretty pointless in the overall movie and maybe it's time people went back to 2D. The film plot involved part of the plank of wood who is left a creepy old monastery cum concentration camp by his mum and takes the rest of the plank along to meet the caretaker woman who it turns out is head of the Brady Bunch from Hell. The plank run around aimlessly after being lured underground by a flying insect being picked off in ludicrous situations where they can entertain us with their full range of emotive acting. Which consists of looking slightly bored as the love of your life is dragged off in front of your eyes by an unseen assailant or trying to smash your way out of a barred cell by hitting it with a small wooden chair whilst screaming like a two year old having a hissy fit about dropping their lolly. Like computer games of the shooter variety videos and files keep appearing to fill you in on what exactly is going on but by then you don't really care and just want everybody to die so you can go get a burger. Money must have run out after 80 minutes as the finale is so pitifully badly played out and acted that a monkey with a broken arm could have probably written a better scene. If your idea of a good movie is a bunch of idiots who can't act running around in tunnels for no other reason than it looks cool then Hidden will be a treat. For anyone with even a semblance of movie taste this will be 80 minutes of utter torment.
Tiny Zorro
Truly amazing indeed ! Amazing how terrible the actors were. Seriously, I've seen better acting in TV commercials and you get to watch them for free. I have no idea if the 'actors' have done anything before and, after watching this garbage, I won't be wasting the time it takes to look up their profiles. The plot, done a thousand times before. Just flick through 'Generic Horror Film Plots for Dummies' and that'll about cover this. Special effects ? More of those in most episodes of 'Supernatural' I'm guessing that the folks who bankrolled this movie decided to pay the absolute lowest for actors, scrips, effects and pretty much everything so they could pay for it to be shot in 3D. Trouble is, the script is so terrible that they didn't even make much use of that. Watch at your peril !