A group of people show up at a creepy old house for the reading of a will. Weird things happen, as is to be expected.

This movie is on the very cusp of Horror. It has a crazy killer (whose identity is partly obvious) stalking the halls doing his thing. It has people wandering in the dark. It even has a supernatural angle that’s really, really pointless.

I think I must enjoy the subgenre, because I did like this thing, but there’s no there there. Time killer is all it is, and I’d rather doubt anyone but me would seek it out.

Five semi stupid twentysomethings head out to a remote house where something very bad happens to them.

That’s not a spoiler, as it’s in the first bit of information we get about the movie.

And this is a Found Footage flick. People don’t usually survive those.

Any ways. Well acted. Creepy plot. Only one or two head slappers here. I would hazard a guess at this being one of the better films in the subgenre.

Nice.

A family moves in to a house where evil lurks.

You know, standard Horror plot.

I really wanted to like this movie more than I actually do. I don’t hate it. Can’t say I have meh feelings about it. But it’s not what I’d hoped for, and that’s too bad.

This is a Lucio Fulci, which means lots of gore, an somewhat incoherent plot, and entirely too many maggots. In the grand scheme of things, it’s better than The Gates of Hell but not as good as Seven Notes in Black.

I will say this about it. This is the second time this month I watched a movie where I wanted the kid in it to die. About the same reasons, too, compounded with an annoying dubbed voice.

Only when the kid was in danger (and he was, several times), I wanted to see him get out of it.

I think that’s a credit to Fulci and this movie.

I just wish I could like it more.

A woman’s cop husband vanishes in a deserted hospital and no one will talk about it. She hires a camera man to film her quest to find the answers.

And answers she does find.

As this is a Found footage film, you know more or less how it goes. There a moment towards the end of the film that doesn’t quite work for me. Over all, though, this is a well shot, well acted film. It’s one of the better examples of its subgenere.

A drummer finds himself framed for murder by a blackmailer who wants to drive him nuts.

Or something.

The plot really doesn’t make a hell of a lot of sense. As it’s an Italian dub, critiquing the acting is a non-starter, but the voices are what you’d expect. And…

It’s a Dario Argento flick (his third one), so it’s very well shot. In like his next Giallo (the superb Deep Red) he really doesn’t play fair with the mystery. In fact, as a younger man I’d have said this was a perfect representation of an Italian Horror flick: More style over substance.

I enjoyed the flick. I intend to buy the flick when I get the chance.

But it’s really not Argento at his best.

Not long ago I condemned Splatter University as being dull.

I apparently didn’t know what dull was.

It’s pointless to summarize the plot. This movie has no plot. It’s stitch together from two different films, one of which is The Aztec Mummy. The Aztec Mummy was an entertaining flick, but all of that was leeched out in this film.

This is the second flick this month I’d voluntarily watch Pieces over ever seeing again. No man deserves to have that happen to him.

No man.