After a whole sling of mediocre films like Dracula 2000, My Bloody Valentine and Drive Angry, people are probably not really queuing up for another new film by director Patrick Lussier. The story sounds very mediocre in advance and when we look at the cast, the name Jerry O'Connell is perhaps the only name that really rings a bell. Bailee Madison will also know someone here and there, but it actually seems that Play Dead is doomed to failure in advance. When the film opens it actually only confirms the feeling, because the first twenty minutes of the film are very messy and above all very drowsy. Such a story has already been done several times and is a bit reminiscent of films like Saw and Hostel, but with a very low budget. Why do I still want to watch these kinds of movies? Well, luckily it got a lot better after those twenty minutes and you have a pretty entertaining movie at the end of the ride.
Yes, the movie is extremely predictable. You may even think here and there that you will catch the film on gross mistakes, such as unlocking a cell phone from a corpse with a face scan with its eyes closed, but the director did pay a little attention luckily. When Chloe eventually ends up in the mortuary, the tension is soon raised by the director, but this will probably only work for newcomers to the genre. That's what I meant by extremely predictable, you can see the danger coming from miles away, but the jumpscares are also very predictable. Yet the film doesn't express very much and no, we don't come up with a large enough, the script was too dull for that, but the film is not worth an insufficient.
Jerry O'Connell plays the role of flipped corpse detagger fine. He almost does this in a Norman Bates meets Dexter-like way, which keeps the whole thing fun. In the end, it is easy to guess what the ultimate goal of The Coroner is. What may be a shame is that the twist they put in the movie, or that the one that has to go through for a twist that makes your mouth fall open, is killed by the bad acting of Chris Butler who plays Sheriff Duggan. If just a little more attention had been paid to this, the film might have been a little higher at the end of the ride. But anyway, the film was better than you would expect in advance and in the end you will be left amused, at least, I had that again.
Play Dead has become a very nice low budget horror movie. It doesn't surprise anywhere, the twist is just destroyed by bad acting, but the film still had something. It's most reminiscent of a soft mix between the Saw movies and Hostel. No, you should definitely not compare it with those films, because then you will really be disappointed, but it is reminiscent of it in the distance. The film is carried by Jerry O'Connell as The Coroner, but Bailee Madison doesn't do it very undeservedly as Chloe either. The film is worth watching anyway, but you may not have to watch the messy opening of the film for the first twenty minutes. Do it anyway, because Play Dead will be a very amusing movie afterwards.
Yes, the movie is extremely predictable. You may even think here and there that you will catch the film on gross mistakes, such as unlocking a cell phone from a corpse with a face scan with its eyes closed, but the director did pay a little attention luckily. When Chloe eventually ends up in the mortuary, the tension is soon raised by the director, but this will probably only work for newcomers to the genre. That's what I meant by extremely predictable, you can see the danger coming from miles away, but the jumpscares are also very predictable. Yet the film doesn't express very much and no, we don't come up with a large enough, the script was too dull for that, but the film is not worth an insufficient.
Jerry O'Connell plays the role of flipped corpse detagger fine. He almost does this in a Norman Bates meets Dexter-like way, which keeps the whole thing fun. In the end, it is easy to guess what the ultimate goal of The Coroner is. What may be a shame is that the twist they put in the movie, or that the one that has to go through for a twist that makes your mouth fall open, is killed by the bad acting of Chris Butler who plays Sheriff Duggan. If just a little more attention had been paid to this, the film might have been a little higher at the end of the ride. But anyway, the film was better than you would expect in advance and in the end you will be left amused, at least, I had that again.
Play Dead has become a very nice low budget horror movie. It doesn't surprise anywhere, the twist is just destroyed by bad acting, but the film still had something. It's most reminiscent of a soft mix between the Saw movies and Hostel. No, you should definitely not compare it with those films, because then you will really be disappointed, but it is reminiscent of it in the distance. The film is carried by Jerry O'Connell as The Coroner, but Bailee Madison doesn't do it very undeservedly as Chloe either. The film is worth watching anyway, but you may not have to watch the messy opening of the film for the first twenty minutes. Do it anyway, because Play Dead will be a very amusing movie afterwards.
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