I found lesbianism somewhat titillating when I was around 15, but since developing a brain I found it difficult to understand what fascinates guys so much about two heterosexual women pretending to enjoy fondling each other. (Fakery of any kind is always boring and off-putting, at least to us brainy people.) Lesbianism is the corny, easy way to titillate male viewers and its (over-)use nearly always damns a movie to the world of cheapdom.
Nothing in this movie isn't related to stiffies and sweaty female bodies glittering in the light. It's just sex sex sex - which is fine in a pornographic film, but definitely overkill in a horror film. An abundance of sex or sex-related themes is nearly always a killer in mainstream movies - unless you're a big fan of cheesy B-movie erotic thrillers. After all, how can mainstream erotica compare to the blatant t'n'a world of porn? It can't. So stick to non-sexual plots, ya putzes, or at least try to not make every male character think with his privates, try not to write about women who are constantly in the nympho mode. (Anybody ever met such a woman? Male fantasy BS.)
Don't let me give you the wrong impression though: this isn't like a soft core film because the nudity is rare and certainly no more pornographic than the average big-budget late-80s American thriller (with Michael Douglas humping women on walls). But the characters and their interactions don't make too much sense half the time because sex keeps clouding everyone's judgment. Sexual desire becomes the central theme - which, again, is fine in a 10-minute porn clip, but 80 minutes of people being horny is just a very poor way to present a horror film, or any kind of story.
Even the mystery man dying of mysterious causes right in front of them doesn't affect the guys: they still just want to shtoop the blonde - and of course the ravishing Anna Skellern. The mystery blonde OBVIOUSLY is lying, as her perpetual smirking proves (how could they miss those ominous smirks?), and yet they keep seeing her as just a sex-object.
The script is full of little doses of nonsense, such as the bearded guy's laughter upon seeing Ken's leg fall into the sand. It's crap like this that makes the movie confusing and inferior.
Midway through, we find out that the blonde has complete control of the three, able to manipulate with them as she pleases. This unfortunately causes a cluster-duck of confusion when disconnected scenes start piling up almost randomly. After that, the end is inevitable hence all suspense is gone: what chance do they have against a demonic siren on a remote island? To create suspense you must keep the outcome open, something many film-makers don't seem to grasp because they are so thick. The ending is really dumb: getting gorged doesn't hurt her but being stabbed in the neck does?
What was the point of that introductory scene of how the two met? Who was she claiming spied on them? What was she doing in the middle of a desert hitchhiking - while dressed lasciviously, as if she'd just been to a cheap hooker bar? Too many loose ends, very sloppy.
Nothing in this movie isn't related to stiffies and sweaty female bodies glittering in the light. It's just sex sex sex - which is fine in a pornographic film, but definitely overkill in a horror film. An abundance of sex or sex-related themes is nearly always a killer in mainstream movies - unless you're a big fan of cheesy B-movie erotic thrillers. After all, how can mainstream erotica compare to the blatant t'n'a world of porn? It can't. So stick to non-sexual plots, ya putzes, or at least try to not make every male character think with his privates, try not to write about women who are constantly in the nympho mode. (Anybody ever met such a woman? Male fantasy BS.)
Don't let me give you the wrong impression though: this isn't like a soft core film because the nudity is rare and certainly no more pornographic than the average big-budget late-80s American thriller (with Michael Douglas humping women on walls). But the characters and their interactions don't make too much sense half the time because sex keeps clouding everyone's judgment. Sexual desire becomes the central theme - which, again, is fine in a 10-minute porn clip, but 80 minutes of people being horny is just a very poor way to present a horror film, or any kind of story.
Even the mystery man dying of mysterious causes right in front of them doesn't affect the guys: they still just want to shtoop the blonde - and of course the ravishing Anna Skellern. The mystery blonde OBVIOUSLY is lying, as her perpetual smirking proves (how could they miss those ominous smirks?), and yet they keep seeing her as just a sex-object.
The script is full of little doses of nonsense, such as the bearded guy's laughter upon seeing Ken's leg fall into the sand. It's crap like this that makes the movie confusing and inferior.
Midway through, we find out that the blonde has complete control of the three, able to manipulate with them as she pleases. This unfortunately causes a cluster-duck of confusion when disconnected scenes start piling up almost randomly. After that, the end is inevitable hence all suspense is gone: what chance do they have against a demonic siren on a remote island? To create suspense you must keep the outcome open, something many film-makers don't seem to grasp because they are so thick. The ending is really dumb: getting gorged doesn't hurt her but being stabbed in the neck does?
What was the point of that introductory scene of how the two met? Who was she claiming spied on them? What was she doing in the middle of a desert hitchhiking - while dressed lasciviously, as if she'd just been to a cheap hooker bar? Too many loose ends, very sloppy.