1 /10

Warning: Spoilers

This is a real contender for the worst movie ever. I looked at the user rating breakdown to see how it got a rating more than one and found that a few people (possibly with some connection to this flick) actually gave it 10 stars, which is an abuse of this system. Yet the vast majority of people had given it very low ratings, so there's some hope that honest reviews will be given.



Everything (story, dialogue, acting, directing, costumes, effects) in this movie is awful. The story is ridiculous; it's free-form. It starts on one premise (stranded teens on a haunted island) and goes off into various bizarre directions and unrelated dead-ends. The dialogue isn't at all realistic; it's stiff, shallow and often just explanatory because the story line and acting aren't strong enough to convey even the simplest ideas. These so-called actors are just pathetic; their voices, movements, line deliveries and interactions are all off. The direction is absent; it's more improvisation, like here's an idea - now go act it out. But, again, the actors can't act so it fails miserably. To that add a visually ugly film. The scenery appears drab, the pirate garb looks like cheap Halloween costumes or something borrowed from the closet of H.R.PufnStuf, and the blood looks to be watered-down red food coloring. The camera work is juvenile; there's a crude part where a teenage girl in a bikini is standing on the beach and the camera pans up her dysmorphic body and just stops at her crotch, which may be an indication that this crew is moonlighting from their real job shooting porn.



All the characters are just nasty; not an interesting one among them. When the girl is consumed by the shrubbery, I found myself rooting for the vegetation. Near the end the two lead characters engage one of the most inane conversations that I've seen in movies. It's here we're told that Brad has lost his scholarship (no surprise there) and is dropping out of college to join the service so that he can secure a better future for himself. To which his oft demonically possessed girlfriend quips 'What about us (i.e. ME)', seemingly indifferent to the slaughter of their friends and the danger that still exists. This movie is a total waste of time.