It took three tries, but I made it through this..."movie". I like to try and write a bad review with some sort of constructive criticism, but there is nothing redeeming about this. It's bad. I watched it on Netflix, thankful to have not paid for it, and you don't have to take my word for it. Watch it. You'll soon find out that the folks that gave this anything other than a '1' are either: trolling, or directly involved with the filming. The acting is horrible. Horrible. The characters aren't developed in any sense. You get a little back story on the heroine's mother. That's about the extent of it. The premise is also terrible. The lead character goes to the place her mother was murdered, and father disappeared, on her birthday, to "figure it all out", in classic cliché' fashion. A 'no guys' party. A Alice in Wonderland party. Her friend's uncles house who is also a teacher or a guidance councilor or something like that. To be honest they may have said exactly what he does, but it's so boring, just staying awake for the duration is an accomplishment, but I'm not sure if I would be proud of it. Even the look of the movie is awful. Shot with a Handi-cam, and it shows. The sound does nothing to redeem it either. Lackluster and applied to situations where it doesn't belong. The characters don't even seem to care that they are being killed off. As if they are being inconvenienced, like having their car keys lost. The special effects are bad and there isn't anything new or special under this sun. It's too bad. And the scene at the end, where the chick is insane and is supposed to be "laughing maniacally". Seriously? The most uncomfortable thing I have EVER seen. The director was asking her to open her mouth as wide as she could and force this stuttering mess out of the hole in her face. Even the other actresses in the scene are disturbed and uneasy with what they see shaping up in front of them. Their expressions say: "You're not seriously going to use that, are you?!" The idea of Alice in Wonderland turned into a horror is a compelling idea, but in these hands it could not have turned out any worse than this. Sometimes I watch movies like this, just on a goof, or to riff on it with my wife. She was asleep in minutes and I would need two more attempts just to make it through. The trend these days seems to be: if it fails as a horror film, then it was just a totally intentional move. "We made a spoof. It's SUPPOSED to be ridiculous!" This beast can make no such claim though. It fails on either front, or both at once. It is neither funny or scary. NO. REDEEMING. QUALITIES. It's your candle to burn though.
Review of Alice in Murderland
