Thursday, February 23, 2012

From Within (2009)

By Jody
Score: 5/10

In this After Dark Horrorfest Year 3 entry, a string of suicides plague a small town. When a suicide occurs, the next closest person in proximity to the victim is the next to do it, and so the chain continues throughout the film.

....Or are they really suicides....

With a startling open and a haunting conclusion, this is worth a watch despite its flaws, the most notable of which is poor pacing. The film also has a rather silly but forgivable detour about emo witches vs. religious fanatic psychos, neither of which group (Christians or Wicca) are portrayed fairly (only extremists on both sides are characterized).

Sometimes no exposition is the lesser evil between that and bad exposition, but at least it has a better explanation than M. Night Shayamalan's "The Happening" trees.

Starring: Thomas Dekker, Elizabeth Rice, Kelly Blatz, Rumer Willis, and Adam Goldberg
Directed by: Phedon Papamichael
Budget / Gross: Info Not Available
IMDB Score: 5.6/10
Tomatometer: 60% critics and 41% audiences liked it

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