Catching Up

I've watched quite a few movies (and still need to write about Mother of Tears, Douglas Buck's shorts, and The Last Winter) and haven't been posting as I watch. So, it's time to get them listed.

Raising Jeffrey Dahmer, 2006 - I'm all for a movie from the perspective of parents of a serial killer, but not one that is thinly veiled and poorly written propaganda championing the father's status as an innocent bystander. It's one hundred minutes of Lionel Dahmer looking confused, and flashbacks that are frequent, scattered and unclear as to where they fall in the time line. I swear the actor playing Jeffrey didn't bother to spend even 5 minutes studying the tone and body language of his character, but instead opted to play it according to how he thought a psycho might act. The abominable jazz score is incredibly ill chosen and is just one in a long line of bad decisions made on the part of those who made this movie. To put it plainly, it just downright sucks. (Also, this film was made with the cooperation of Dahmer's parents, another indicator that this is all some elaborate attempt for Lionel Dahmer to clear his conscious. Whether he failed as a father or not, I have no clue. But it is clear that desperately he wants someone to tell him that he didn't.) Skip this one.

Deadly End ,2005 - Young newlyweds move into a house and quickly become the focus of one seriously demented neighbor. This one is a well made low budget film that packs some good punches and some of the most squeamish gore I've seen in awhile. Nick Searcy steals the show as the neighbor from hell.

The Eye , 2008
The remake. Blah.

Driftwood, 2006
A lot of potential, some cool actors, and an opportunity missed. Very disappointing.

Unholy, 2007
Unholy, as in God Awful. I love Adrienne Barbeau, but this one was nearly impossible to sit through.

World's Worst Neighbor
in Deadly End

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