After seeing the previews for this movie, I thought the story had a great potential to be a truly scary movie, but the way it was slammed together made it fall short of that potential. Although there were some genuinely scary scenes, I still felt disappointed by the movie as a whole. I can't really say that there was any one obvious thing wrong with it, but weak acting (I didn't buy that guy as a doctor for one minute), holes in the script, and odd lighting and sound production, did not live up to my expectations. Maybe someday a more skilled horror director and a producer with better resources will remake this movie with better actors and scare the daylights out of us all. Please?
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Broken Vessels
(1998)
A realistic look at the effects of drug abuse.
13 March 2005
In my job as a guitar teacher, I come in contact with many kids who are at the place in their lives where they are very impressionable and often have a glamorized view of drug use. I have shown this movie to several kids as an example of how drug abuse can get out of control in a hurry and ruin lives. I point out that the main character, Tom, had no intention of becoming an addict, but before he knew it, he had become one, and it was a short ride to hell from there. This movie makes this point without seeming like a health class documentary. The kids I've shown it too seemed to get the message. I give this movie a high rating, if for no other reason, because it helps me to possibly save the kids from becoming what I myself had once been.
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