Runtime: 86 minutes
Directed by: Stephen
Cognetti
Starring: Gabriel Chytry,
Elizabeth Vermilyea, Sam Cazzi, Theodore Bouloukos, Brian David Tracy
From: Cognetti Films
Last night I got to view The Shining on the big screen (for the third time ever) and the movie was remastered in 4K. Not everyone in the near sold old crowd loved it but I did... besides it being a classic, it looked and sounded better than ever. Wednesday night was this movie... which will never be confused for a classic:
This movie contains multiple grammatical errors.
I've seen the first two so I might as well do the same with this one, right? At least the first film (reviewed around this time last year) was good, at least by found footage standards. The second-viewed this past May-was not so hot, with some horrendous acting and dopey moments. This installment at least did not have performances that made me cringe, yet the plot had some stupid moments, laughably bad CG and has less scares/creepy moments than the first two.
The plot is that some billionaire media mogul uses the old hotel as a place to have an interactive theater thing called Insomnia, even though it's the old Faust legend... I don't know why it's called Insomnia, but then again I have a number of questions about the plot. The reason for this event being held in the old hotel: I'll be charitable and just call it “goofy”, and it makes this media mogul look less than sympathetic, to say the least. The fact that this does have one scary scene and some creepy moments-along with a finale which actually has a lot happening-means that I can't give this a bottom of the barrel rating... plus, the scene that plays during the end credits is so bizarre and unexpected, I laughed-even though it was supposed to be deadly serious.
Anyhow, they stretched the found footage concept pretty far here, with a morning TV show crew filming everything (including moments that really shouldn't be on camera), some of the cast of this play getting cameras also, and come to think of it, once you know what's going on, I am not sure why media mogul even wanted cameras there... or to echo a mutual here on Letterboxd, why has a billionaire created a play which looks so cheap? Then again, this is a motion picture where the intertitles-even though they appear rather infrequently-contain more than one grammatical mistake, the biggest of which was “where” being used instead of “were”; I was amazed that there was no “your” instead of “you're”, but it's kind of embarrassing that no one caught this and it made the finished film, viewable by anyone who has an active Shudder account. The first movie in this series is really the only one worth watching, as it hasn't really been worth the effort in seeing the mythology expanded upon and trying to answer the questions the original movie raised.
I've seen the first two so I might as well do the same with this one, right? At least the first film (reviewed around this time last year) was good, at least by found footage standards. The second-viewed this past May-was not so hot, with some horrendous acting and dopey moments. This installment at least did not have performances that made me cringe, yet the plot had some stupid moments, laughably bad CG and has less scares/creepy moments than the first two.
The plot is that some billionaire media mogul uses the old hotel as a place to have an interactive theater thing called Insomnia, even though it's the old Faust legend... I don't know why it's called Insomnia, but then again I have a number of questions about the plot. The reason for this event being held in the old hotel: I'll be charitable and just call it “goofy”, and it makes this media mogul look less than sympathetic, to say the least. The fact that this does have one scary scene and some creepy moments-along with a finale which actually has a lot happening-means that I can't give this a bottom of the barrel rating... plus, the scene that plays during the end credits is so bizarre and unexpected, I laughed-even though it was supposed to be deadly serious.
Anyhow, they stretched the found footage concept pretty far here, with a morning TV show crew filming everything (including moments that really shouldn't be on camera), some of the cast of this play getting cameras also, and come to think of it, once you know what's going on, I am not sure why media mogul even wanted cameras there... or to echo a mutual here on Letterboxd, why has a billionaire created a play which looks so cheap? Then again, this is a motion picture where the intertitles-even though they appear rather infrequently-contain more than one grammatical mistake, the biggest of which was “where” being used instead of “were”; I was amazed that there was no “your” instead of “you're”, but it's kind of embarrassing that no one caught this and it made the finished film, viewable by anyone who has an active Shudder account. The first movie in this series is really the only one worth watching, as it hasn't really been worth the effort in seeing the mythology expanded upon and trying to answer the questions the original movie raised.
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