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(Reviewed by Preppy) - One of a kind...I hope. A
bunch of people--including evil industrialist Malcolm McDowell, policewoman
Talisa Soto and prisoner Bruce Ramsay--are on Hart Island--and actual island
off the coast of NYC where unidentified dead people are buried. While there
they desecrate on of the graves. You would expect by the title that the dead
would come to life and attack. Wrong! They instead are attacked by...flies.
If the flies bite you, you die and almost immediately begin decomposing.
This sounded pretty promising--not in a good way but a bad camp movie sort
of way. Unfortunately this is just bad. The soundtrack has annoying rap
songs which don't even fit the movie; the dialogue and characters are all
clichés that you've seen and heard before; the fly POV shots are
hysterical; in one shot it's daytime--a minute later it's pitch black night
(shades of Ed Wood Jr.!); lousy makeup and boring CGI effects and a stubborn
refusal to be scary even once! I was so bored I dozed off for about 10
minutes (I didn't miss anything). It really boggles the mind that anyone
would think this would ever work.
Some good performances make this bearable--Soto is beautiful but wooden
however Ramsay is surprisingly good and McDowell is just great--he's
obviously enjoying himself and his enjoyment rubs off (a little). Still this
is a stupid, dumb, boring and completely illogical horror film. Right down
there with "House of the Dead". A must miss. (1/10) |
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