Satan makes a play for a bodacious blogger in Mark Neveldine’s zeitgeisty, diabolically thin Halloween offering
Halloweeners should emerge tickled if hardly spooked by this daft, zeitgeisty artefact, in which the devil expands into new media by possessing a bodacious blonde blogger (Olivia Taylor Dudley), whose symptoms – instigating bird attacks, apostrophising the possessive “its” – have the pope’s men jetting into Los Angeles. Director Mark Neveldine (Crank) puts the camera in unusual, diverting places – his found-footage scraps display a freshness that the recent The Visit lacked – but everyone is working from diabolically thin material: concerned dad Dougray Scott utters a dozen variants of “I don’t understand this!”. Priest Michael Peña, meanwhile, has only to lay out the Eucharistic knick-knacks before the inevitable Exorcist-rehashing finale. There, Taylor Dudley levitates, briefly vanishes and produces a series of eggs from her mouth. She resembles the antichrist far less than she does Debbie McGee.
Halloweeners should emerge tickled if hardly spooked by this daft, zeitgeisty artefact, in which the devil expands into new media by possessing a bodacious blonde blogger (Olivia Taylor Dudley), whose symptoms – instigating bird attacks, apostrophising the possessive “its” – have the pope’s men jetting into Los Angeles. Director Mark Neveldine (Crank) puts the camera in unusual, diverting places – his found-footage scraps display a freshness that the recent The Visit lacked – but everyone is working from diabolically thin material: concerned dad Dougray Scott utters a dozen variants of “I don’t understand this!”. Priest Michael Peña, meanwhile, has only to lay out the Eucharistic knick-knacks before the inevitable Exorcist-rehashing finale. There, Taylor Dudley levitates, briefly vanishes and produces a series of eggs from her mouth. She resembles the antichrist far less than she does Debbie McGee.
- 10/29/2015
- by Mike McCahill
- The Guardian - Film News
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Spoilers Alert: If you don’t want to know that New Zealand won the World Cup, England didn’t impress and the ‘magical’ Quade Cooper was more Debbie McGee than Houdini, do not read on.
Of course if you are reading this there is a good chance you are a rugby fan and knew all that, or at least I hope you did. It’s quite interesting now to review this dvd several month on from the tournament, with the dust settled and the rose tinted glasses firmly in place, we are taken back to New Zealand by the good folk of Sky Sports Nz.
Anyone that watches sport dvds, more so the official ones, will understand my hesitation at getting too excited when putting this one in the dvd player. Regularly they are unsubtle cash-ins by someone clearly with no understanding of the sport. Thankfully...
Spoilers Alert: If you don’t want to know that New Zealand won the World Cup, England didn’t impress and the ‘magical’ Quade Cooper was more Debbie McGee than Houdini, do not read on.
Of course if you are reading this there is a good chance you are a rugby fan and knew all that, or at least I hope you did. It’s quite interesting now to review this dvd several month on from the tournament, with the dust settled and the rose tinted glasses firmly in place, we are taken back to New Zealand by the good folk of Sky Sports Nz.
Anyone that watches sport dvds, more so the official ones, will understand my hesitation at getting too excited when putting this one in the dvd player. Regularly they are unsubtle cash-ins by someone clearly with no understanding of the sport. Thankfully...
- 1/18/2012
- by Jeff Ball
- Obsessed with Film
Halloween came early in London last night with The Only Way Is Essex star Lydia Bright, girl group Parade and Debbie McGee dressing up for festivities at Virgin Media's TiVo Horror Quiz. They were joined by designer Henry Holland, MTV presenter Laura Whitmore, Donna Air and former X Factor finalist Katie Waissel and band Red Velvet Lovers. Other stars (more)...
- 10/27/2011
- by By Naomi Gordon
- Digital Spy
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