Review of Paranoid

Paranoid (III) (2000)
1/10
Use By 2000
26 January 2024
Warning: Spoilers
Rebecca Gayheart is on the run from those tracksuit-wearing thugs from the British movie 'F.' Eluding a few close calls, she arrives home to find both her parents murdered, so in a paranoid state of hysteria, she headbutts a mirror and suspends herself like the victim in 'The Hitcher.' Forensics are quick on the scene, hauling Brenda Bates away.

Elsewhere, Daisy Ridley is seeing off her parents as they're an inconvenience to the script, which leaves her home alone and a sitting duck.

What can only be described as a Crazy Town demo tape - remember those guys? - is used as a score. It's as cheap as this roadside haunted house walkthrough scene that's not even frightening. Oh brother, when the demo tape by the Butterfly Boys isn't being used, Simon & Garfunkel's sound of silence is literally employed to replace it, which is a hell of an improvement. Listen close, and you can hear the dry, crisp air with no humidity.

Daisy Ridley and the one killed earlier in the movie conveniently break down out in the middle of nowhere due to a radiator overheating. If it overheated, then why are they all wearing winter warmers?

Boy, when the audition call went out for this movie, no one showed up, so they probably had to draft budding actors from skid row.

This crap is a B-side to a B-side of 'Disturbing Behavior' with aspirations to be 'Scream' meets 'Texas Chainsaw.'

Boom mic at the 34:24-minute mark. Lousy camera and director work.

Who's actually responsible for greenlighting projects like this? This requires clearance by the arts and film literature board, so who thought it was passable for release? It's low-budget, indie, and pilot stuff. It's a first draft pilot with actors employed by a lottery raffle from a homeless shelter.

There's a 1/10 movie that's far superior to this 1/10 relation and that's 'Sledgehammer.' "A little sweet and low."

A Slipknot member chases an actress - who was rebuked from 'The Faculty' - around a house, and the scene's not even creepy. It's one of the Slipknot dudes from the song Nero Forte.

Josh Allen shows up as a movie extra at the 45:52 minute mark in his Buffalo attire. That's him up there in the background, if you don't believe me.

A Korn song nearly breaks out at the 47-minute mark, but it turns into a looney tunes with Q-Bert high on LSD conducting a band full of squirrels tripping on -

See! You see, this dude in the backwards hat just agreed with me at the 48:28 minute mark by mentioning deer's tripping out on acid and bashing tambourines.

Now a Jimmy Hendrix riff almost breaks out.

Man, o man, whoever's behind this project should be ashamed of themselves and apologize to a global audience.

This kid - the killer - just did his best Jennifer Love Hewitt, "What are you waiting for?" line.

Daisy Ridley is using a three-inch floppy, so you know how dated this movie is.

I hate to rip on you, movie, but you're even relying on donations from late 80s light metal sound effects that Beavis & Butthead would be proud of. Remember Warrant being the last remaining hair band before extinction? Never mind.

This movie's the Dollar Store of discount shops. The bargain blazer of thrift store fire sale bins. The coupon king of savings.

I bet this Razor character became hot property after this movie wrapped and was in demand and fully booked out, with a movie career extending to this day. Longevity is a virtue concerning all these actors involved.

I knew they wouldn't show any nakedness in that pathetic sex scene. That's how cheap this discount warehouse reduced to clear project is.

It wouldn't surprise me if they had to wash cars and sell lemonade and cupcakes to raise the budget for this embarrassment.

Check out the Silly String in a can scene if you don't believe me about this movie. What a complete waste of time and money.

"Party, party, party." Feel the energy emanating from these actors, motivating me to feel inspired.

"Run away, get away." Listen to this Razor actor, would you? What acting.

"I'm not trying to win an Oscar," reveals the killer. State the obvious, dude.

The killer in this never made the cut to be in 'Elephant' or 'Duck: The Carbine High Massacre.' Wow, the big reveal at the end is up there with JR mimicking charades with a handgun. You really outdone yourself, movie.

This movie has entrenched its legacy and will be forever remembered as a revolutionary game changer that inspired 'Saving Private Ryan' and 'Forest Gump.' I bet when they started filming this project, they had high hopes and were thinking red carpet, but they didn't calculate straight to video in their equations.

On behalf of everyone involved in the making of this movie, I'd like to apologize to the international community for the production's outcome. No amnesty can overturn my authority on the matter, and let this be a warning to any others out there who dare venture down this movie's path that you enter at your own risk, and all I can say is that I told you so.
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