Reviewed by Jesse Miller, MoreHorror.com
Shape-shifting entities hiding under the bed clamouring for your flesh and soul have been the stuff of nightmares for kids all around the world for years now and it makes me curious that there hasn’t been that many boogeyman-type flicks out there, other than the Boogeyman series itself and a few films from the 80’s, that explore the mind-numbing fear from your childhood.
Under the Bed wanted to capture that exact mind-numbing fear and mix it with psychological horror, as it’s story sees tormented teen Neal (Jonny Weston) return home after spending two years away in Florida with his Aunt as he recuperates from his nervous breakdown due to his torture at the hands of the entity under the bed, the recent death of his mother and a traumatic fire.
But you see, Neal soon discovers his younger brother Paulie (Gattlin Griffith...
Shape-shifting entities hiding under the bed clamouring for your flesh and soul have been the stuff of nightmares for kids all around the world for years now and it makes me curious that there hasn’t been that many boogeyman-type flicks out there, other than the Boogeyman series itself and a few films from the 80’s, that explore the mind-numbing fear from your childhood.
Under the Bed wanted to capture that exact mind-numbing fear and mix it with psychological horror, as it’s story sees tormented teen Neal (Jonny Weston) return home after spending two years away in Florida with his Aunt as he recuperates from his nervous breakdown due to his torture at the hands of the entity under the bed, the recent death of his mother and a traumatic fire.
But you see, Neal soon discovers his younger brother Paulie (Gattlin Griffith...
- 8/2/2013
- by admin
- MoreHorror
The real bogeyman is incomprehensible plotting in director Steven C. Miller's Under the Bed, which matches narrative incoherence with one of the most over-the-top portentous scores in horror-cinema history. Ryan Dodson's exaggerated musical accompaniment is all the more hilarious for being so ubiquitous, even during a first half in which nothing happens except a lot of yelling between back-from-exile teen Neal (Jonny Weston) and dad Terry (Peter Holden), who's still mad at Neal for lighting the fire that killed the boy's mom two years earlier. That tragedy, it turns out, was actually caused by the giant limping demon-monster-whatsit that lives under Neal's bed and also haunts his brother, Paulie (Gattlin Griffith), all for reasons never explicated by Eric Stolze's jumbled script...
- 7/17/2013
- Village Voice
Scream of the Banshee was granted its Syfy channel premiere as a notable 200th original feature – a co-production between SyFy and After Dark Originals, it certainly feels like the offspring of a late night romp between the two parents. Dismissing it as yet another cheap scare cash-grab wouldn’t be out of line, but there is one feature on this DVD that singlehandedly rescues the cash-strapped production – the commentary, with director Steven C. Miller and composer Ryan Dodson. While I can’t vouch for its authenticity, Miller’s tale of woe, having a hellish twelve day production schedule and a miniscule budget, is very compelling.
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- 7/27/2011
- by Mark Zhuravsky
- JustPressPlay.net
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