Hallowed Ground (2007) (V)

User Rating:

4.0/10   

Director:

David Benullo

Writer (WGA):

David Benullo (written by)

Release Date:

9 October 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Thriller

Plot:

After she becomes stranded in a small town, a young woman discovers her arrival there was foretold a century earlier by the town's founding preacher and that she is an integral part of his impending - and terrifying - rebirth. |

Plot Keywords:

Small Town | Preacher | Crow | Police Station | Attempted Murder

Cast

Jaimie Alexander	...	Liz Chambers
Brian McNamara	...	Sheriff O'Connor
Ethan Phillips	...	Preacher
Chloe Moretz	...	Sabrina (as Chloe Grace Moretz)
Ned Vaughn	...	Deputy Mark Simmons
Jim Cody Williams	...	Earl
Tamara Clatterbuck	...	Waitress
Nick Chinlund	...	Jonas Hathaway
Hudson Leick	...	Sarah Austin
Dan Warner	...	Officer Chandler
Randy Ross	...	Farmer
Steve Larkin	...	Mayor
Fred Meyers	...	Lanky Teenager
Time Winters	...	Victim
William Stanford Davis	...	Truck driver

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Company:

Daniel Grodnik Productions

Soundtrack:

Bonfire In The Sky

A Really Earnest Try

HALLOWED GROUND is a peculiar little movie. Good camera work. Decent actors. And dull as watching paint dry.

Somebody forgot that the first six letters in "thriller" are t-h-r-i-l-l. The object is to make people's pulses race, not to put the audience to sleep.

Elizabeth's car breaks down in a strange (and underpopulated) little town. She gets it to a garage, only to be told that the needed part can't be gotten until tomorrow. Stranded.

She goes to a diner and gets into a conversation with a tabloid reporter conveniently in town to do a story on strange events in the area many years ago. The reporter conveniently provides exposition establishing the main conflict that the story will cover.

And so we're treated to Elizabeth's adventures trying to escape a crazed cult. So we have a little CHILDREN OF THE CORN, a touch of THE Texas CHAINSAW MASSACRE, and a dash of those movies Hammer Studios made where Christopher Lee's cult got outsmarted by Peter Cushing. For seasoning add a cute little girl. But no original ideas involved.

This would have been a great thirty minute episode of Tales from the Darkside. But stretching it to feature length was just cruel.