Grindstone Road (2008)

User Rating:

4.8/10   

Director:

Melanie Orr

Writer:

Paul Germann (writer)

Genre:

Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

There goes the neighborhood

Plot:

Cast

Fairuza Balk	...	Hannah
Greg Bryk	...	Graham
Joan Gregson	...	Linda
Walter Learning	...	Ted
Dylan Authors	...	Daniel Jenkins
Matt Gordon	...	Martin
Zachary Bennett	...	John Dodson
Felix Pennell	...	Danny Sloan
Kyla McMahon	...	Young Hannah
Sean Jordan	...	Parking Lot Attendant
Andrea Davis	...	Overworked Nurse

Also Known As:

Grindstone Rd. (Canada: English title) (DVD title)

Runtime:

93 min

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Company:

Red Duck Films

Incredibly inept

Bad writing, bad direction, bad editing, bad acting. It has it all. Frankly, I enjoy a good low budget feature, but I can't tolerate a strung-together series of the most clichéd scenes imaginable. Wandering into a dark basement alone at night? Make-you-jump loud sounds, in lieu of true scares? A husband who doesn't believe his stressed-out wife? The ol' disappearing "evil water" routine? And that in just the first thirty minutes.

And, what's with the fade-to-black between scenes? It's amateurish and distracting.

The set-dressing is horrible. It calls attention to itself in almost every location.

Frankly, I couldn't finish the film. A "script supervisor" position is obviously not the best experience for direction, just as a "sound editor" most likely has no business jumping into writing screenplays.

There's a reason this waste of time went directly to video, although I assume that was the intention from the beginning.