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A man
named Richard (Eddie Bowz) who is scared about his past childhood life
goes up to a remote cabin with a weekend group who are having the same
issues for "fear therapy".
Richard's girlfriend named Ashley (Heather Medway) finds a wooden
statue in a drawer as Richard explains to people the statue's name is
Morty (Erick Weiss) which the indians created and to confess their
fears to the statue.
However, the statue seems to stalk them in their rooms and other areas.
When the weekend guests are trying to conquer their fears they all seem
to behave possessively and act nasty towards one another and then Morty
starts to kill some of these guests.
Richard must meet up to his fears before he becomes Morty's next victim
along with his other friends too that are trying to survive.
This
film is incredibly imaginative and fairly original with what is
happening to people's fears and the statue Morty causing these fears to
come to real life.
Alot of fun to watch as well as very intense with what is going on
which does the trick very well and can become inspirational even for a
low budgeter like this one.
The acting is at an even pace but not at all terrible. Lead actor Eddie Bowz needed
a wee bit of a push during the beginning of this film as the one
disturbed by his past and Morty but he does pull it off well afterwards
with tense actions to his part and good energy.
I always enjoyed
Ann Turkel as a regular guest in the 80's blockbuster TV series Knight Rider playing a villain but this time she plays a totally different character and still seemed quite good at it and loving too.
Vince Edwards brings plenty of charm to his part as Uncle Pete in the film seeming like a likeable guy until the horror starts.
Antonio Lewis Todd came across well as a nasty and irritable prick in the film which you hope something will come to him.
Monique Mannen really brings the attention to the screen with her flirtatious attitude and soft words.
There's a brief breast shot on a woman fornicating in bed during a flashback scene.
A man is stabbed by a wooden cricifix.
Vincent Robert is at times stale with his direction but adds some good suspense too in other areas.
We have a nice beginning with the camera circling up with the trees and
the blue sky. There's also a good moment with child actor Hunter Bedrosian running
away in a forest as well as him encountering a grave being dug up with
people in masks which we spot great shots of as well and a good creepy
feeling to it too.
We have a fairly descent dialogue between supporting actor Wes Craven as a shrink and Eddie Bowz discussing his issues in a psychiatrist office.
Good shots on a car driving by a road on a mountain.
Heather Medway was a little stale when she acts shocked after opening a
drawer and discovering a wooden statue inside it which is of course
Morty.
The setting with Bowz gathering everyone in the room to talk about their past and fears is fairly descent with Erick Weiss sitting on a chair as Morty and the cast talking to him.
Bowz does
well by getting cold and serious when he discusses his past fear
showing cold expressions as well. Plus great camera shots approaching
him as well as with Weiss.
Anna Karin does well when she freaks out about going into the hot tub with Vince Edwards trying to talk her into coming in.
There is a good shot on Karin when she slowly walks into the hot tub showing her giggling and then a nice shot up on Weiss bobbing up from the water and her freaking out.
There's a good smooth dialogue between Monique Mannen and Antonio Lewis Todd
as Mannen spoke flirtatiously and lustfully towards him showing nice
expressions and he speaks softly back which looked relaxing and
effective.
A good rough moment between Todd and Ann Turkel in their room together as it looked a little dysfunctional.
A nice camera shot on Mannen lying in a bathtub acting relaxed with her eyes shut as it looks believeably soothing and then reacts well when it shows Todd's
hand rubbing her. She really reacted believeably angry when she opened
her eyes and smacked him which showed some nice blocking.
We also have a well done disturbing moment when Turkel tries to make out to have some fun when going to a theme park and Todd shrugs her off showing an aggressive attitude and making her upset.
We have some creepy shots on Mannen
riding in a miniature train looking scared and really knew how to trip
out demnding the train to stop as there's a nice dark shot of her
halfway in a tunnel and something strange is happening.
There's great intensity on
Darin Heames when he tries to get away from Turkel when she acts obessive towards him.
There's a perfect and creepy setting with Karin calling out in the forest and voices start calling to her.
Edwards does well by suddenly acting evil towards Bowz up in an attic as well as a good shot on Weiss suddenly approaching.
We also have a nice flashback sequence with little Bedrosian and bit part actor Greg Roszyk getting nasty towards him and Weiss approaching as well.
Weiss does his blocking well as a statue turning his head and body when trying to go somewhere.
A nice psychotic moment with
Darin Heames attacking Medway in the forest at night and having a battle.
There's a terrific creepy moment with Bowz being pulled by zombie hands from the ground and a ghoul rising up while he's struggling.
Bowz does well confrotning Weiss
showing that he is not afraid anymore which was the best direction ever
in this film with what is going on between the two of them.
Robert directs a perfectly nice moment at the end that involved Weiss and bit part child actor Corey Wilson.
We
have some great prickly sounds along with nice synthesizer classical
violin sounds and electric piano sounds too all composed by Robert O. Ragland.
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