Is it "Curtains" for Crimson Screens???
Hey! I'm back with another update. Watching "Going To Pieces" really got me exctied about horror again, so that will translate to a lot of reviews, I am sure. I will throw in some reviews of older movies, but lesser known ones, so if you have not seen them, you need to. One to the review...
"Curtains" is a slasher movie from 1983. It is about a group of aspiring actresses who go to a remote mansion to audition for a coveted spot in a famous directors new movie. All of the actresses want this role real bad. Who will get it? Well a lot of them die trying. Ha!
First, I would like to say that the atmosphere in this movie is really creepy. Especially the secluded mansion they go to. Very cool. Also, the one scene that anyone who has seen this will talk about, is an expertly staged death scene while a character is ice skating.
Second, I wish the acting here was better. There are some decent actors in this but the acting never really is anything but average. And it is especially noticable in the "dramatic" scenes. Some of those just sound silly.
The movie moves a long at a decent pace, but runs out of steam near the end. A lot of the kills are bloodless, which is a pretty stupid decision for a slasher movie. One of the deaths, where someone falls out of a window, is confusing at fuck. I don't know if it was edited shittily or something, but it looks like the person falls out of a second story window and on the way to the ground, manages to fall into the first story window. What the fuck??? I watched that scene mutiple times and I still coudn't figure out what happened.
Ok, while this movie is nothing special compared to a lot of the same genre films that came out around the same time, it is a semi interesting movie with a few good scenes. Rent, dont buy!
Ok, that's all for now. More tomorrow...
"Curtains" is a slasher movie from 1983. It is about a group of aspiring actresses who go to a remote mansion to audition for a coveted spot in a famous directors new movie. All of the actresses want this role real bad. Who will get it? Well a lot of them die trying. Ha!
First, I would like to say that the atmosphere in this movie is really creepy. Especially the secluded mansion they go to. Very cool. Also, the one scene that anyone who has seen this will talk about, is an expertly staged death scene while a character is ice skating.
Second, I wish the acting here was better. There are some decent actors in this but the acting never really is anything but average. And it is especially noticable in the "dramatic" scenes. Some of those just sound silly.
The movie moves a long at a decent pace, but runs out of steam near the end. A lot of the kills are bloodless, which is a pretty stupid decision for a slasher movie. One of the deaths, where someone falls out of a window, is confusing at fuck. I don't know if it was edited shittily or something, but it looks like the person falls out of a second story window and on the way to the ground, manages to fall into the first story window. What the fuck??? I watched that scene mutiple times and I still coudn't figure out what happened.
Ok, while this movie is nothing special compared to a lot of the same genre films that came out around the same time, it is a semi interesting movie with a few good scenes. Rent, dont buy!
Ok, that's all for now. More tomorrow...
posted by Crimson Screens at 4:16 PM
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