Dead Mary (2007) (V)

Director:

Robert Wilson

Writers:

Peter Sheldrick (writer)
Christopher Warre Smets (writer)

Release Date:

20 February 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

You always hurt the ones you love.

Plot:

Kim and her boyfriend Matt have just broken up, but they travel together to a cottage nearby a lake to spend the weekend with their friends Eve...

Plot Keywords:

Tied Up | Blood | Possession | Supernatural | Secluded Cabin

Cast

Dominique Swain	...	Kim
Marie-Josée Colburn	...	Eve
Steven McCarthy	...	Baker (as Steve McCarthy)
Maggie Castle	...	Lily
Michael Majeski	...	Dash
Reagan Pasternak	...	Amber
Jefferson Brown	...	Matt

Runtime:

USA:103 min | Argentina:103 min

Country:

Canada | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Argentina:16 | South Korea:15 | Singapore:NC-16 | Australia:MA (unrated version) | Italy:VM14

Filming Locations:

Cedar Point, Tiny Township, Ontario, Canada

Company:

235 Films

Trivia:

The original screenplay was called Bloody Mary. The title was cleared in every territory except Japan, where the name Bloody Mary is copyrighted, and it was suggested that the title be changed to Dead Mary for release in that country alone. When the film's producers discovered that another film, also called Bloody Mary, was being readied for release around the same time, it was decided that the film's title be officially changed to Dead Mary in order to avoid confusion. This spawned an inside joke in the finished film, when the better-known game Bloody Mary is dismissed as being "the lame version" of Dead Mary.

Goofs:

Continuity: As the girl (Amber) is about to burn her possessed boyfriend in the shed, she turns back in to the shed from the rain - from a face dripping with water to dry skin within a few seconds and proceeds to light a match taken from a box that was equally doused with heavy rain water moments before.

Quotes:

Matt: Where's Kim?!
Eve: She went to bed.

Movie Connections:

References "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" (1999/I)

Soundtrack:

Head Gone Vertical

Dead Mary: killer of two hours of your life

Dead Mary seems to be a horror movie that misses at every attempt that a horror movie shoots for. First it is very formulaic: a bunch of young people go to a remote cabin where something supernatural will start hunting them. Dead Mary actually spends time in the beginning trying to give you the back stories on these individuals that are meeting for the weekend. The purpose of this you would suspect is so that you get some intrigue on the characters actions, add to the paranoia, advance a plot, or perhaps simply gain some empathy for the characters. By the end of the movie you will realize none of these things happened and thus it was a pointless waste of time. So you might say: "So what, it is a schlocky horror movie. Who cares about plot, character development,etc…?" To that I say I can enjoy a silly B-movie horror movie as much as the next guy. But what is it that fans of, let's say, Friday the 13th want in a movie? I would break it down to things such as: Good special effects, creative kills, scares, maybe a few laughs, and if all else fails some T&A. Dead Mary fails to provide any of these things.

I gave Dead Mary 2 out of 10. In hind sight this might be a little low because the acting wasn't particularly bad and the technical aspects of the film were OK. I guess I rate it so low because there is nothing to speak for in its favor. Often there are bad movies where you say: "The movie really stunk, but there is this one scene..." Not true of Dead Mary. You can go through your whole life without seeing the movie and not have missed anything.