A
married couple named Jack (Reynaldo Ronales) and
Stephanie (Heidi Dippold) are driving along in
rural Alabama as their car breaks down from some
flat tires and discovers a countryside hotel to
see if they can find a phone and a can is sent
down from a chimney of the house sent by a
sadistic one named the Tin Man (Michael Madsen)
saying
"Welcome
to my house. House rules: 1. God came into my
house and i killed him. 2. I will kill anyone who
comes into my house as i killed God. 3. Give me
one dead body and i might let rule two slide.
GAME OVER AT DAWN."
They also discover two other people named Leslie
Taylor (Julie Ann Emery) and Randy Messarue (J.P.
Davis) who are staying at the motel and are
greeted by an eccentric caretaker named Betty
(Leslie Easterbrook) who is preparing dinner and
invites them till a towtruck comes to pick up
their vehicle but one of the people that helps
out at the hotel named Pete (Lew Temple) has eyes
for Leslie and acts freaky and so does another
worker named Stewart (Bill Moseley) and later on
terrorise everyone there and tries to kill them.
All four of them disocvers that they are devil
worshippers who practise black magic witchcraft
and are on a chase through the dark dungeons of
the hotel and are haunted by their past making
them go insane.
They run into a ghostly little girl named Susan
(Allana Belle) who knows about the house they are
trapped in and knows how to escape the madness
but will she help them?
Ahh yes a good haunted house and
demonic kind of flick which I enjoyed watching
throughout the whole movie.
The story is very fast paced but it's still well
done with some cheesy lightning here and there
when everyone is in this creepy motel and the
flashback memories that were shown look
disturbing too at times.
Based on a novel but yet this movie looks like it
was influenced by other films like The
Shining, Texas Chainsaw Massacre
and those superntural artsy films that
Dante Tomaselli would do as well.
The film had class with many fun touches
throughout the story in which you wonder what's
going to happen yet and what unsolved mystery
will unravel too with many horror celebrities
which will grab any fans attention to watch and
not be disappointed either.
The acting is very well done. Lead
actor Reynaldo Ronales looked good and
grungy as an aggressive type in the film showing
some good energy and performance to his part and
really stressing his lines quite well.
Heidi Dippold really knew how to act
emotional for her part in the film as well as
showing good energy too playing the nagging wife
along with her good frights too.
Lew Temple was perfect in his part as one of
the creepy cast members with his freaky voice and
exoressions playing an Igor type of role and a
true character actor he is at this. He really is
the drawing card for the stroy thanks to a good
job her portrayed on what he had to do. Very
freaky like.
Leslie Easterbrook does well with her
wickedness to the story bringing her part very
strange and mysterious like which is what we
needed for a plot like this and knew her stuff as
you can tell.
Bill Moseley of course played a creepy
character in which he usually does and yes acts
violent and aggressive and knew what he was doing
and was the attention grabber in the story
showing good obnoxious features too. I always
enjoyed him playing these types of roles.
Michael Madsen totally broght a good
coldness to his part in the film with his words
and knew how to act evil and nasty with what he
had to do. Although he doesn't appear till
quarter way through the film his performance is
worth watching and one of the best actors too.
Young actress Allana Bale does her part
terrifically by acting ghostly and knew how to
act sensitive too. She drew her expressions
lifelessly too which too was great.
Robby Henson does a
marvellous job with his work on this film in
which he shows a good beginning with both actors Reynaldo
Ronales and Heidi Dippold as a
couple driving in their vehicle and having a
heated argument. We spot good shots on their car
with supporting actor Pawel Delag as an
officer driving beside him with his siren going
off wondering if he wanted them to pull over or
not.
There is nearly a jumping moment when the
sheriff's car is stopped near the middle of the
road further ahead and the breaks are slammed and
later on silence and then a chicken flying up and
down near their window with Delag questioning
them which made the direction very mysterious.
We do have a good suspenseful shot on their tires
blowing out on the road and their car screeching.
There's a good presence by Leslie Easterbrook
greeting them at the old hotel with other actors Julie
Ann Emery and J.P. Davis arriving
as well along with supporting actor Lew
Temple acting freaky towards all of them.
There's another good shot between Ronales
and Dippold acting even more aggressive
near a bathroom and a shot on a water tap turning
on.
There's a good shot on a table with the camera
rising up on all of them getting ready for dinner
at the table with Temple acting very
strange towards Emery telling her her
likes her in a creepy fashion and Davis
getting aggressive with him. There's also a nice
approach by Bill Moseley coming to the
table acting evilly obnoxious which looked very
impressive.
There's a good shot on supporting actor Michael
Madsen standing outside in the dark holding
a shotgun with everyone screaming and getting
scared.
There's a great close up shot on Easterbrook looking
wicked and telling everyone who that person is
making it look very mysterious and horrifying.
Moseley looked impressive with his direction
by acting menacing towards Ronales with a shotgun
walking up some stairs towards him.
There's a good shot on Easterbrook
trying to attack Davis in a freezer room
with an axe and hitting a piece of meat on a hook
instead while there's a good shot on Moseley and
Ronales struggling with a shotgun in the freezer
room.
We spot a good shot on a freezer door with an axe
trying to chop it open.
Good reactions and a shot on the main cast
spotting a satanic symbol on a wall discovering
who these people really are.
We spot good shots on the main cast going through
a dark type of a dungeon corridors and spotting
their past with good reactions.
There's also a good shot on Emery in a
room dressed as a little girl acting emotional
with a bunch of pies sitting in her room and a
shadow on Temple with his hissy voice to her.
There's a good dialogue between Ronales with
young actress Allana Balle near a dark area
acting ghostly about what to do with their
situations.
There's a good reaction on Balle in the
room where Emery is looking upset when people
wonder if she's part of the evil in the house
almost looking like something evil is going to
happen along with Easterbrook going
crazy and trying to attack.
A nice close up shot on Madsen wearing a
mask and holding some knives in his hand looking
like a Freddy Krueger type of fashion as well as
good shots on the main cast tied in chairs with
some of them crying in fear as well as him
speaking coldly towards all of them and taunting
them too with many good close up shots on his
face while doing so.
We
have good syntheaizer violin type playing with
the good bumping and low sounds too for the
darkest moments in the film and some slamming
sounds too as it makes you jump which all of this
sounded very necessary composed by David E.
Russo.
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