Sins of the Past: Buso-Garcia’s Sophomore Feature a Familiar Exercise
Returning with his first feature since his 1999 debut Paging Emma, Puerto Rican writer-director Roberto Buso-Garcia brings us a haunted house thriller, The Condemned, which attempts to serve classic spine-tingling chills at the same time as it explores dark historical circumstances through a sort of rudimentary post-colonialist lens. While there are fleeting moments of foreboding during its initial set-up, Buso-Garcia’s dependence on a nearly constant eerie score and clichéd details soon give way to disinterest, culminating in not only a predictable ending but the addition of an extremely erroneous and useless final twist that feels about as satisfactory as the film does as a whole.
Ana (Cristina Rodlo) is the beautiful and headstrong daughter of a once famous doctor who has serious designs on killing the rampant rumors about strange misdeeds from the earlier part of her father’s career,...
Returning with his first feature since his 1999 debut Paging Emma, Puerto Rican writer-director Roberto Buso-Garcia brings us a haunted house thriller, The Condemned, which attempts to serve classic spine-tingling chills at the same time as it explores dark historical circumstances through a sort of rudimentary post-colonialist lens. While there are fleeting moments of foreboding during its initial set-up, Buso-Garcia’s dependence on a nearly constant eerie score and clichéd details soon give way to disinterest, culminating in not only a predictable ending but the addition of an extremely erroneous and useless final twist that feels about as satisfactory as the film does as a whole.
Ana (Cristina Rodlo) is the beautiful and headstrong daughter of a once famous doctor who has serious designs on killing the rampant rumors about strange misdeeds from the earlier part of her father’s career,...
- 3/1/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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