“Sew Torn” Review – An inventive crime thriller with a bizarre sense of humor

I will keep watching again and again End goal Films as long as they keep making them, but I personally support more for warm deductions than officially licensed sequels. Finally, star Wars began as a loving homage to the Flash Gordon Series and even the durable Friday, the 13th^TH The series was originally supposed to redeem John Carpenter's Slasher interrogate Halloween. However, these new properties have iterated the stories that inspired them instead of simply grasping their tropics ad nausenum, and that's why they are so popular today.

With this in mind, I think that it is time that a modern filmmaker remixed the psychosexual horrors of properly Hellraiser in something new. While there are some entertaining sequels in the fan favorite series, Clive Barkers decreasing participation should be interpreted as a sign that it could be time to continue. So I was excited to check myself Douglas Schulze's Barker-inspired mix of religious and cosmic horror, Thorn. To judge according to the trailer, this unique combination of HellraiserPresent Event horizon And The thing seemed to contain enough creative juice to provide a rightly exciting successor for the disturbing creatures from yesterday – especially when you consider that the film also shows Doug Bradley as the main character.

Originally with the title Dark planetThis indie production actually went through years before they were Thorn. Schulze wanted to grow up with high-quality genre films and originally wanted to produce a little more in harmony with the excessive monster films of the 1980s The hope of healing human evil.

In the finished film we follow priests, the NASA operative Gabriel Goodman (Jon Bennett) When he checked in a remote observatory after the NASA had lost contact with the team stationed there. Gabriel examined the consequences of chaos when the team received a mysterious signal from space and meets the cruel necronaut-one avatar of evil hell to spread his insane inducement all over the world. What follows is a gruesome game of cat and mouse, while Gabriel works with the non -verbal sister Agnes (Cassandra Schomer) In an attempt to prevent the blasphemic creature from initiating a disaster of biblical proportions.

There is a lot to like on this setup. I am always a fool for supernatural terror with a science fiction Hellraiser: bloodlines), and that doesn't even mention how the isolated observatory feels like a great setting for a paranoid horror film. Unfortunately, clumsy execution and an unfortunate lack of production value, sabotaged, which could have been a legally frightening narrative.

For the beginning, the bizarre's use closed the stage for a cheap experience. The internal observation is also a bit too worldly to be scary, apart from a single decorated hallway, which the filmmakers repeatedly reuse to desperately try to establish an eerie mood. I know that this is mainly a budget problem, but it would no longer cost more money to revise the script for something better for the limited resources of production.

There is also the fact that this is a single place thriller who is not a clear reason that our characters remain caught there themselves if they were able to drive away just as easily and call up (preferably in the form of Special Agents Mulder and Scully). Maybe it's just me, but I think the end of the world should contain more than one NASA employee and a traumatized nun.

Speaking of characters, the two -dimensional script makes Bennett very difficult to play its complex role in every sincerity. This is a particularly big problem when you consider that his transition from the priest to the researcher would have made a much more interesting film. And while Bradley brings hell out of his lines, although he clearly shot his scenes during a single afternoon without ever interacting with the rest of the line -up, even his dialogue has excessive presentation and faulty logic. I also do not like the fact that his appearance was heavily advertised in all marketing of the film, although his character only appeared through video calls and a single weakly illuminated flashback.

Fortunately, Schomer performs a surprisingly large task of bringing a believer into her spiritual border through an extreme situation, and I honestly think that the silent nun here would be the main character but even an improved protagonist would not quite compensate Thorns' The biggest mistake – the Necronaut itself.

Don't get me wrong, I love the design of the sacrilegical creatures and the fleshy textures that decorate the deformed head of the bad guy (with the kind permission of practical effects, magicians Dan Phillips), but that is exactly why it is such a shame that the film completely fiddles its greatest capital. The story of the Necronaut as an apocalyptic in front of the fate, but the filmmakers then represent him as a generic film monster who bites his victims like an awkward zombie instead of an almighty unit like the Cenobites, which clearly inspired its design. After all, Pinhead and Company were not scary because they pursued them like Michael Myers, they were scary because of their presence and supernatural powers!

This fundamental misunderstanding is really the ultimate nail in Thorn'Coffin. No plenty of good ideas and cool creature designs can compensate for a story on surface level about good and evil, which does not give the genre table anything new. While I appreciate the film's attempts to clear up a religious conspiracy and combine demonic terror with a modern tech thriller, as well as the undeniably bad creature design, Thorn I won't steal Hellraiser's Crown soon. It is really a shame how the Necronaut design deserves a better film.

Thorn Is now available in VoD sales outlets.

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