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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
SWAMPED, August 19, 2005
This review is from: Evil Remains (DVD)
Although set in the usually eerie swamplands of Louisiana, EVIL REMAINS doesn't go too far in advancing the tired cursed land story. A group of students venture off to a supposedly cursed plantation to disprove the myth of it being cursed. Seems twenty years earlier, an abused boy murdered his sadistic father and passive mother, but his body was never recovered. (Hint, hint). The movie tries to achieve some atmospheric chills and its cast is more than capable, but it's too talky and under-directed to provide true chills.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
No T&A and humor makes this slasher just a cut above average, January 7, 2005
This review is from: Evil Remains (DVD)
Evil Remains references, pays homage to, or just blatantly rips off every classic as well as recently released horror movie. In the first two scenes, there are snippets of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Blair Witch Project, Jeepers Creepers, The Hills Have Eyes, The Evil Dead, Halloween, and fill in the blank, because when the credits roll you will be hard pressed to name at least one slasher film that hasn't been scavenged.
Nonetheless, this is a solid if not very memorable movie. Director James Merendino forgot it takes a lot of humor to glue together so many disparate pieces but that doesn't stop him from referencing two similar films that were quite funny, House of 1,000 Corpses and Cabin Fever. As a result a movie that could have been good is just a cut above the average slasher flick, no pun intended. Merendino also left out another essential ingredient for this genre: T&A. This will not start a trend.
The story is otherwise boilerplate slasher. Five students prowl around an abandoned plantation that is the subject of a vague legend. Four will die and one will live, and with this movie that isn't a spoiler. Two of the three male students are brothers, bonded by what apparently was a bad childhood (guess what happens before we know).
Yeoman acting is bolstered by standout performances from an uncredited Kurtwood Smith as the sagacious shrink and Estella Warren and Ashley Scott as lesbians who tag along to help on the ill-defined graduate work. The on-location New Orleans scenes also lend a creepy atmosphere to this otherwise ordinary film.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Real Creepy Camera work and Music good movie i thought!, January 23, 2005
This review is from: Evil Remains (DVD)
i just rented this movie the other day from blockbuster. to be honest after watching the movie the cover art on the dvd package sucks! it makes it look like a total b movie with the evil little face and estella warren with her boobs almost hanging out and why is the girl behine her in the cover blond in the movie shes brown haired and has dreds! oook lol. BUT i was wrong the movie itself is great. it has very creepy camera work as in shots of scenes and how they were taken by angles and such. the movies color is great! a little dark at times but for a low budget movies its looks like one of those bigger budgeted studio financed "in theatre" cameras used.
the music was very creepy it was like light errie ghostly whispers! and was put out more on the scenes when needed.
the original sound on the dvd is in dolby digital stereo wich is only the two front speakers
but I RECOMMED if you got a dolby digital 5:1 or 6:1 surround sound to set it at
dolby prologic 2 decoding.
set it on that when watching it the sounds ALL come out thru all front and back speakers brings the movie more to life! trust me just set ur surround reciever to prologic 2 sourround sound format on your reciever
and wow better then what they use on the disc LOL.
as for the story its was nothing new really boy is nuts.
kills parents and then is there really a
"haunting"
at the plantation or a curse?. and then these young look like college kids to me go investigate and then chaos begins sorry im not gona say what cuz i dont wana ruin it for you haha.
but the acting is VERY good all are above b actors. kinda almost seems like they should be doing bigger movies then this but hey you gota go where the money is i guess.
but the actors bring this movie to life more BESIDES THE MUSIC and the creepy cinamatography.
the thing that made me laugh was that old man RED from that 70's show is in this movie for like a cameo but i was like oook why is he in a horror movie?.
BUT ANYHOW go watch this movie turn off the lights raise up the dolby prologic 2 surround sound "recommended" and get ready for the heebie jeebies!.
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