11:11 starts as a young girl named Sara (Ingrid Libera) witnesses the murder of her parents at the hands of two escaped convicts who she then manages to shoot herself. Jump forward several years later & Sara (Laura Mennell) is a university student, she arrives home to find her aunt Lydia (Jane Sowerby) in bed with the guy who tried to rape her. Obviously upset Sara feels betrayed, whoever that night Lydia drowns in a bathtub & not long after the guy is found burned alive in his crashed car. Is this merely a coincidence? Is Sara a killer? Does Sara's creepy friend Raden (Christie Will) have anything to do with it & why does Sara keep seeing the numbers 11 11?
Known as Hell's Gate 11:11 in the US this Canadian production was co-written & directed by Michael Bafaro & for me 11:11 is a complete mess of a film that I suspect tried to be a supernatural psychological thriller but just comes across as a confusing mess that is actually very frustrating to watch. The script tries to juggle lots of ideas but gets it horribly wrong, there's some nonsense about the numbers 11:11 which are supposed to hold some supernatural significance, there's a few death's, some rubbish about ESP, there's some evil entity who disguises itself as a hot chick & most of all it's about not taking your medication which I don't think the makers of 11:11 did. At over 90 minutes 11:11 feels like it it goes on forever & is so disjointed & confusing it's hard to watch, while I just about kept up with it until the end in the hope that it would all becomes clear & the film would explain itself it never does or at least to any satisfactory degree. All the character's seem to talk in very vague terms about 'this' or 'that' or 'it' without ever going into specifics which doesn't help matters either. The ending is a mess where we learn Sara's good looking friend is some evil demon & then there's a shot of two young girls running down a road before the adult Sara then wakes up & we get a close up of Raden's eyes before the credits roll. So was it all a dream? What was with the flashback? Who really killed Lydia & that guy? What was the significance of the medication Sara stopped taking? Sara had great ESP levels but so what? What's all that rubbish about fate? What's with the random out of body experience at the end when that guy sees his own dead body? Also what's that bizarre ending in which Sara doesn't shoot Seth & walks away before magically going back in time & shooting him? What gate's are opening & how can 11:11 come? What is 11:11 for God's sake? Does anything make sense in 11:11? I just didn't get it, maybe I wasn't concentrating enough but I personally think you shouldn't need a PHD to work out what happens in a low budget supernatural horror film, should you?
You know I can relate to Sara because I also have been regularly experiencing the numbers 11:11, spookily it happens twice a day usually just after 11:10 for a minute or so until 11:12 & it's freaking me out. What can it mean? Does anyone have any explanations? Nope, it's a total mystery just like this film. The usual haunted house supernatural horror scares are here with doors opening & closing on their own & loud noise suddenly happening during quiet bits as people walk around in the dark, you know that sort of thing I am talking about. Forget about any gore as there isn't any.
Filmed in Vancouver in British Columbia in Canada this looks alright & has reasonable production values I suppose but nothing amazing. The acting isn't anything special, Laura Mennell looks like she wants to be a goth & Chrsitie Will is quite cute while I can't say I recognised anyone from the cast.
11:11 is a film that tries to make you think & be original but it just ends up being an absolute mess that is becomes very frustrating to watch. No scares, no blood or gore & a confusing plot sinks 11:11 without trace.
Known as Hell's Gate 11:11 in the US this Canadian production was co-written & directed by Michael Bafaro & for me 11:11 is a complete mess of a film that I suspect tried to be a supernatural psychological thriller but just comes across as a confusing mess that is actually very frustrating to watch. The script tries to juggle lots of ideas but gets it horribly wrong, there's some nonsense about the numbers 11:11 which are supposed to hold some supernatural significance, there's a few death's, some rubbish about ESP, there's some evil entity who disguises itself as a hot chick & most of all it's about not taking your medication which I don't think the makers of 11:11 did. At over 90 minutes 11:11 feels like it it goes on forever & is so disjointed & confusing it's hard to watch, while I just about kept up with it until the end in the hope that it would all becomes clear & the film would explain itself it never does or at least to any satisfactory degree. All the character's seem to talk in very vague terms about 'this' or 'that' or 'it' without ever going into specifics which doesn't help matters either. The ending is a mess where we learn Sara's good looking friend is some evil demon & then there's a shot of two young girls running down a road before the adult Sara then wakes up & we get a close up of Raden's eyes before the credits roll. So was it all a dream? What was with the flashback? Who really killed Lydia & that guy? What was the significance of the medication Sara stopped taking? Sara had great ESP levels but so what? What's all that rubbish about fate? What's with the random out of body experience at the end when that guy sees his own dead body? Also what's that bizarre ending in which Sara doesn't shoot Seth & walks away before magically going back in time & shooting him? What gate's are opening & how can 11:11 come? What is 11:11 for God's sake? Does anything make sense in 11:11? I just didn't get it, maybe I wasn't concentrating enough but I personally think you shouldn't need a PHD to work out what happens in a low budget supernatural horror film, should you?
You know I can relate to Sara because I also have been regularly experiencing the numbers 11:11, spookily it happens twice a day usually just after 11:10 for a minute or so until 11:12 & it's freaking me out. What can it mean? Does anyone have any explanations? Nope, it's a total mystery just like this film. The usual haunted house supernatural horror scares are here with doors opening & closing on their own & loud noise suddenly happening during quiet bits as people walk around in the dark, you know that sort of thing I am talking about. Forget about any gore as there isn't any.
Filmed in Vancouver in British Columbia in Canada this looks alright & has reasonable production values I suppose but nothing amazing. The acting isn't anything special, Laura Mennell looks like she wants to be a goth & Chrsitie Will is quite cute while I can't say I recognised anyone from the cast.
11:11 is a film that tries to make you think & be original but it just ends up being an absolute mess that is becomes very frustrating to watch. No scares, no blood or gore & a confusing plot sinks 11:11 without trace.