Until Dawn

"Until Dawn" is what I call "Scoobie Do" for adults. There's a group of pals, out for a vacation romp, who find themselves facing a mysterious back story and lots of supernatural baddies, out to croak them, in bloody style. What makes this even worse than the usual formulaic, survivalist, horror nonsense, is its story is based upon a time loop. So, in essence, this is a horror flick, with obses...

Horseface

3/10

With twenty minutes left, I was so bored, I went to read reviews while it plays out. I already opted to go to sleep less than halfway through last night, as I realized it wasn't going to be scary at all. It's beautifuly shot, and fairly mastered, though way too dark (Hollywood doesn't know how to do HDR, so everything looks like shit from them these days), and it has that Odessa actress, that's so...

"Until Dawn" certainly doesn't inspire much confidence, especially after you find out it is based on a Playstation game. So you can automatically rule out anything even approaching the cerebral and prepare to be assailed by an assortment of cardboard cut-out characters instead. These ciphers are essentially destined to be nothing more than disposable victims and ironically enough this is precisely...