The Charnel House

There's nothing sadder than seeing the film's creators and/or fans making obvious attempts to jack up the IMDB rating with 10/10 reviews. Talk about greedy, you couldn't give it a 7? This wasn't Silence of the Lambs for crying out loud.

As for the film itself, it's about as dull and generic as low-effort horror movies go. Not a scary film in the slightest. There are better horror flicks on Netflix; watch those instead.

Okay, I would probably give this three stars except for the glaringly obvious fake reviews that bumped the rating points enough that I wasted time trying to watch this clunker. It's not good. It's really not.

I get how incredibly time-consuming, complicated, expensive, exhausting and exhilarating it must be to make and be part of the community that pulls any production together. Maybe by the time it's all over and the people involved get to watch what they've made, they can't help but love it.

I wasn't one of those people. I'm one of the people who watches films like this and wonders who on earth invested the time, money and talent and still ended up with something so dull and clichéd. It must be worth it at some point -- but it's surely frustrating for people like myself who wanted to invest a quiet weeknight in an enjoyable movie, and instead got suckered into a time-waster like this. It's not even that I'm particularly picky or jaded -- this is just a dull movie with slow-moving scenes, and the kind of plot you can predict the next scene or twist with nearly 100% accuracy.

This story has been told many times, and a lot better to be frank. The new take on it by adding technology was not really a plus for me. Unfortunately everything about this movie was mediocre. I will probably have forgotten this next week. It also lacked a few real scares, wich is the reason to watch horror right? So I don't think you'll be missing out if you skip this one.

It wasn't a complete waste of time on a Saturday morning.

The premise is pretty generic and the film clearly has very little budget. The special effects are pretty lame and overall its not got anything very interesting to bring to the screen. In addition most of the acting isnt very good, with the notable exception of the little girl who was actually okay.

Having said all of that, I have seen an awful lot worse and it didnt completely bore me which plenty of other movies have done. So below average but not the worst movie ever.