Shattered Lives (2009)

Her fears and inability to cope with the harsh realities of life becoming so intense that they manifest themselves in an altered state of reality, a schizophrenic girl begins taking orders ... See full summary »

Director:

Carl Lindbergh

Writer:

Carl Lindbergh

Stars:

Lindsey Leino, Joe Stezar, Skyler Caleb

Cast

Credited cast:
Lindsey Leino	...	Rachel (young)
Joe Stezar	...	Ryan
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Skyler Caleb	...	Rob
Ellyse Deanna	...	Lisa
Wendy Dominguez	...	Melo
Gary Kohn	...	Michael
Brianna Nakutis	...	Tiffany
Scott Mitchell Nelson	...	Robert
Jon Overgaauw	...	Melo
Christina Rosenberg	...	Rachel (old)
Lucia Sullivan	...	Jennie
Aigi Vahing	...	Real Estate Agent
Jeffrey Zukowski	...	John

Storyline

Her fears and inability to cope with the harsh realities of life becoming so intense that they manifest themselves in an altered state of reality, a schizophrenic girl begins taking orders from a pair of clown dolls who instruct her to murder her adulterous mother.

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Plot Keywords:

doll | erotica | panties | blood | knife | 

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Genres:

Horror

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong bloody violence, language and brief sexuality

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

22 December 2009 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

ANOC Productions

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

User Reviews

Utter dreck and not even worthwhile

Following the death of her grandparents, a woman's quest for revenge on the guilty party assumes a similar role that she undertook as a youngster when demonic clowns appeared to her in order to kill and has it continue on her new role.

This was an utterly dreadful and completely worthless effort. About the only thing that needs to be watched is the opening massacre of the college students which contains some rather nice stalking, a few decent kills and a burst of energy that's completely missing from the rest of the film. That it has the nerve to replay this exact sequence at the end says it all about the quality of the rest of the movie for it couldn't be bothered to try anything else. The flaws here are numerous in both quantity and execution, the most egregious of all is the fact that the demonic clowns at the heart of the story are so completely uninteresting and non-threatening that they're a joke to be considered creepy, given lame design work that's completely cliché alongside computerized speaking voices that are obviously distorted human voices instead of truly demonic-sounding beings that really ruins their overall effectiveness with all the time we have to spend on these weak supposed-villains. On top of that, they're thrust into such a completely uninteresting story that even if they had been creepy it would've been hard to take the rest of the film seriously as this plays off more like a fifth-rate Lifetime channel affair concerning an adulterous mother and her clueless husband who are thrust into exaggeratedly overlong scenes that go on forever to clue us into her mental disorder that ends up beating us so over-the-top with that message it loses the impact and just becomes tedious to sit through. Lastly, the whole movie is rendered near unwatchable by the low-budget on display which causes the audio numerous problems of dropping in-and-out of the scene, never giving this anything to do so it just feels boring and is loaded with so many camera tricks and angles that try to convince us something's happening but ultimately highlights the futility of what's going on. Overall there's so little to offer here it's not worthwhile.

Rated R: Graphic Language, Graphic Violence, Brief Nudity and a sex scene.