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2001
Rated: R for graphic language, nudity, and strong sexual content.
Genre: Science Fiction Thriller Horror
Directed By: Danny Draven
Written By: Scott Phillips
Full Moon Entertainment
Running Time: 1:12
Review by: Felix Vasquez Jr.
Review Date: 7/27/12

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HORRORVISION

 

I was convinced that Full Moon Entertainment didn't really begin to wing it with their films until the mid aughts, but "Horrorvision" proves that right around the beginning of the twenty first century, Full Moon pretty much stopped trying, "Horrorvision" is a really bad movie with a premise that could have been settled in forty five minutes but is stretched in to over seventy minutes. Part rip-off of "The Terminator," this "movie" is a painfully convoluted and half assed tale about a website of some kind that kidnaps women and plans to rule the world for reasons never quite explained. There's never a real explanation why the website is kidnapping and torturing women, there's never a reason why it assumes that plan will help it take over the world, there's not a lot of explanation of what horrorvision.com is or where it came from, and there's not an explanation as to where the victims go when they're kidnapped.

This movie has more padding than an insane asylum with painfully drawn out scenes of character focus that goes nowhere. It's telling when a movie is barely eighty minutes long and I began to doze off in the middle of the "action." There's a heavy focus on hard rock and goth punk for some reason and we set down on a Goth couple whom are trying to get by with their porn website that's keeping their heads above water.  

Main character Dez is an aspiring screenwriter whose girlfriend Dazzy wants him to quit the porn business. Will this come in to play later on? No. After a brief appearance from Brinke Stevens who is sucked in to her computer after it's possessed by horrorvision.com, Dez awakens to discover his girlfriend has also been kidnapped by the horror website. He then goes out to find out why she was taken and if she's even alive. Along the way there are endless montages of Dez driving through the city as the director uses camera filters that look as if they were filmed in the early nineties on MTV, and our whiny hero meets a mysterious cloaked man named Bradbury who has a habit of introducing himself by standing on people's cars, and has a connection to the internet invasion that is never fully explained to the audience. There's a lot of exposition in to the plans of the internet monsters, and more driving montages than "Manos: The Hands of Fate," all of which amounts to absolutely nothing! "Horrorvision" is yet another horror movie trying to bank off the internet craze and fails miserably. I'd accuse it of opting for style over substance, but it has neither.

This is a bad movie, and one that will cure anyone who is currently suffering from insomnia. For a premise that boils down to thirty minutes, this is a painfully padded, and ineptly directed film that has no idea what it wants to be or what it's exactly trying to say. Worse the climax threatens a sequel. Don't you dare.

 

 

 


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