Starting with a murder/suicide, Carnage is about love. Three years later in the same house as that tragedy, Carol (Leslie Den Dooven) and Jonathan Henderson (Michael Chiodo) move in. They got the house for cheap and they even threw in the furniture. There's even a photo of the last occupants, which is yanked somehow out of Jonathan's hands.
I'm excited to report that while this can be seen as an Amityville Horror rip-off, it's still an Andy Milligan movie because the main theme is that every single married couple is a mess. Walter (John Garrit) and Caol's sister Susan (Deeann Veeder) only argue more than Susan and her mother (Che Moody) who also wants to sleep with Walter. Meanwhile, we learn that the house is haunted by the couple from the beginning, but again, that's just second place to the fact that no two human beings can be in a relationship without screaming at one another.
There are so many people in this movie to the point that you'll wonder why there just keep adding people. That's because this will eventually have a body count and if you were also asking yourself or God or whoever you ask things about, maybe the ghost of Milligan, "Will there be a pitchfork impalement?" Yes, why wouldn't there be? That's like going to see a band that refuses to play its greatest hit.
This is a movie that feels like no one cared in front of or behind the camera. It goes on and on, talking and talking, and yet there's something to admire that this is a haunted house movie more devoted to long toasts or dialogue between people who don't matter to the main story. It's like if some college filmmaker got hired to make Poltergeist and Spielberg didn't interfere and that student didn't show up but sent their girlfriend who hates horror movies and she just wanted to be done with the whole thing.
I'm excited to report that while this can be seen as an Amityville Horror rip-off, it's still an Andy Milligan movie because the main theme is that every single married couple is a mess. Walter (John Garrit) and Caol's sister Susan (Deeann Veeder) only argue more than Susan and her mother (Che Moody) who also wants to sleep with Walter. Meanwhile, we learn that the house is haunted by the couple from the beginning, but again, that's just second place to the fact that no two human beings can be in a relationship without screaming at one another.
There are so many people in this movie to the point that you'll wonder why there just keep adding people. That's because this will eventually have a body count and if you were also asking yourself or God or whoever you ask things about, maybe the ghost of Milligan, "Will there be a pitchfork impalement?" Yes, why wouldn't there be? That's like going to see a band that refuses to play its greatest hit.
This is a movie that feels like no one cared in front of or behind the camera. It goes on and on, talking and talking, and yet there's something to admire that this is a haunted house movie more devoted to long toasts or dialogue between people who don't matter to the main story. It's like if some college filmmaker got hired to make Poltergeist and Spielberg didn't interfere and that student didn't show up but sent their girlfriend who hates horror movies and she just wanted to be done with the whole thing.