this was showing in my local cinema in new fangled 3D, the type that james cameron is using for avatar. it was for this reason and this reason alone that i decided to check it out on my day off.
the film was terrible, just genuinely awful. the opening credits were amazing tho, in which the backstory of a disaster in a mine shaft was recapped using newspaper headlines. oddly enough, the standout had to be the lionsgate logo. i know that may sound a tad ridiculous, but the clockwork nature of the logo made me realise just how cool 3D could work in the hands of proper a filmmaker who can handle visuals well, someone like guilermo del toro. the trailer for coraline was ten times as impressive as anything in my bloody valentine, which was just beyond predictable and ludicrous (at one point a woman hits the "killer", who wears a helmet, on the head with a frying pan). worth seeing if you can get to it in 3D, but as an actual film its little beyond the usual rubbish you would expect on a late night horror channel.
oh, and the overuse of torches as a 3D device was beyond tired after the first five minutes. you know its a bad sign when the director seems to think that a police officer needs a torch in a fully lit house.
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