Review: Screen

3rd March 2014

This horror movie starts off at the end, with a chirpy reporter telling us that Halloween 40 years ago all but one of the customers watching a movie at a drive-thru cinema were all killed and nobody knows why. Fast forward to the modern day and the same thing happens and the film follows the previous 24 hours in the life of Lola and Carrie. Carrie persuades Lola to leave her sick father to come with her on a road trip to uncover the truth behind the Halloween massacre at the drive thru theatre that her grandfather built. We watch them interview the sole survivor from that massacre 40 years ago as well as seeing other events as the film builds up to it’s climatic ending.

The film by David Paul Baker and his use of shaky camera movements and sometimes a home camera reminded me of the Blair Witch Project minus the frightening factor. The premise of the film is a good one and I enjoyed the fact that we started at the end and then went back to the beginning and then worked through significant events of the previous 24 hours. Having said all of hat the film didn’t manage to build up enough tension or empathy for the viewer to care what happened to either Carrie or Lola. Also the script jumped around quite a lot, it touched upon Carrie’s infatuation with Lola and then moved on to Carrie trying to set Lola up with someone.

The film is only 1 hour 6 mins long but it failed to hook me and without the slash and gore element, the movie really needed to have characters that the viewer could identify with and invest in. These were missing in this film as was any background music, music might of added something to this film.

The end of this film came as welcome relief, that it was over, which was a shame as it started out with such promise but the dialogue was weak and there wasn’t enough tension to hold sufficient interest to care about how the victims of the Halloween massacre died.

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