Osprey
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- Feb 18, 2005
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Alone (2020)... not to be confused with Alone (2020) or Alone (2020) - 2/10 (Hated it)
It starts out promisingly with a blind woman arriving at and spending the night alone in an expensive house in the woods, then being assaulted by an intruder who drags her to the basement. It then switches to following four 20-year-olds who arrive at the same house for a weekend of fun. As 20-somethings are prone to do in horror films, they die one by one... but in more idiotic ways than usual. For example, one yells "Boo!" at a character and gets accidentally slashed in the throat when he spins around with a knife in his hand. Another falls from a second-story deck onto a convertible with the soft-top up and somehow dies from the fall. It doesn't stop there. None of it is supposed to be absurd, though. It's supposed to be clever, relying on misdirection and frequent use of flashbacks in a "now we'll show you what you didn't see" fashion. Sometimes, that can be pulled off well, but, here, it's just done all wrong and makes the plot needlessly complicated and hard to follow. There's also frequent use of voiceovers that don't add or flesh out anything; they're just for the sake of being dramatic and artistic. Finally, most of the twists are telegraphed, so they're not surprising when they happen. The movie tries really hard to be clever and twisty, but it's a real amateur effort that fails on multiple levels. It doesn't help that the acting is really bad across the board. Some of that may have to do with the awful dialogue and directing, though. I'm honestly surprised that I managed to sit through this ridiculous movie, especially after realizing that it's not the one that I intended to watch. I think that the only reason that I did is that I found it pretty amusing how terrible it is, despite trying so hard to not be.
If you care for a laugh and don't mind the whole movie being spoiled because you'll never watch it, anyways:
It starts out promisingly with a blind woman arriving at and spending the night alone in an expensive house in the woods, then being assaulted by an intruder who drags her to the basement. It then switches to following four 20-year-olds who arrive at the same house for a weekend of fun. As 20-somethings are prone to do in horror films, they die one by one... but in more idiotic ways than usual. For example, one yells "Boo!" at a character and gets accidentally slashed in the throat when he spins around with a knife in his hand. Another falls from a second-story deck onto a convertible with the soft-top up and somehow dies from the fall. It doesn't stop there. None of it is supposed to be absurd, though. It's supposed to be clever, relying on misdirection and frequent use of flashbacks in a "now we'll show you what you didn't see" fashion. Sometimes, that can be pulled off well, but, here, it's just done all wrong and makes the plot needlessly complicated and hard to follow. There's also frequent use of voiceovers that don't add or flesh out anything; they're just for the sake of being dramatic and artistic. Finally, most of the twists are telegraphed, so they're not surprising when they happen. The movie tries really hard to be clever and twisty, but it's a real amateur effort that fails on multiple levels. It doesn't help that the acting is really bad across the board. Some of that may have to do with the awful dialogue and directing, though. I'm honestly surprised that I managed to sit through this ridiculous movie, especially after realizing that it's not the one that I intended to watch. I think that the only reason that I did is that I found it pretty amusing how terrible it is, despite trying so hard to not be.
If you care for a laugh and don't mind the whole movie being spoiled because you'll never watch it, anyways:
The killer of most of the 20-year-olds ends up being the blind woman who accidentally killed the real intruder in the basement and thinks that the kids are more home invaders come to assault her. Yes, in a house that she's had less than a day to learn the layout of, a blind woman is able to move around and kill able-bodied millennials one by one without being seen... and it's all just a big misunderstanding. Believe it or not, that's the plot .
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