The director and the stars of the movie jumped on stage after the screening at the Fright Fest. They got a big applause and it seems, that more people did like it, then not. Don't get me wrong, the director and his stars seem more than nice. If I was to rate them as persons, I wouldn't be so harsh, quite the opposite. But I'm rating the movie and not if the director is a nice man or something. In other words, this is not meant as a personal attack on him/them.
There is just that much "torture" that a movie can have. Talk about "overkill" (pun intended). Even the "smart" family setting doesn't help. Characters are not sympathetic (and I'm not only talking about the bad guys here, who are even portrayed as "funny", which even with a bit of a sadistic tendency is hard to see/swallow and/or laugh about/with them), which is always a bad sign for me. Again many did like the movie and the director pointed out, that he thinks the British audience might be a bit more open to the movie (because of the family thing, although in Greece we do have a tradition for that too and it didn't help the movie, in my eyes). The pacing doesn't help either, nor the script.
There is just that much "torture" that a movie can have. Talk about "overkill" (pun intended). Even the "smart" family setting doesn't help. Characters are not sympathetic (and I'm not only talking about the bad guys here, who are even portrayed as "funny", which even with a bit of a sadistic tendency is hard to see/swallow and/or laugh about/with them), which is always a bad sign for me. Again many did like the movie and the director pointed out, that he thinks the British audience might be a bit more open to the movie (because of the family thing, although in Greece we do have a tradition for that too and it didn't help the movie, in my eyes). The pacing doesn't help either, nor the script.