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Eighteen years after the murder of her parents, Sara Tobias searches for the meaning of the numbers '11:11' that was scratched in blood beside her mother's body. Following three sudden murders, supernatural events are unleashed as she gets closer to the truth...
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Review by Chad
Added: May 8, 2005
At the tender age of seven, Sara Tobias (Laura Mennell) witnessed her parents being murdered by a pair of escaped convicts. As she was standing on the porch with her parents, these two men walked up the driveway, and her father thought that they were locals coming to welcome them to the neighborhood, considering that they had just moved here. When Sara's mother Claire (Kristina Copeland) witnessed one of the two murder her husband, it became pretty clear that this wasn't a welcoming party... so, she grabbed Sara and hid her in a small closet inside the house just before receiving a bullet from one of the men. While in the closet, Sara heard the gunshots and screamed, which caused the men to come looking for her. At this point, Sara knocked over a suitcase, causing a revolver to fall out onto the floor. Sara picks it up, and just as one of the convicts opens the door, Sara shoots him in the chest. The other one isn't too far behind, but Sara dropped the gun after murdering the first man. This convict is now raising his gun to murder her, when a gunshot comes out of nowhere and puts him down. Where in the world did this gunshot come from, she wonders... nobody else was around.
This takes us into present time, where we find that Sara has grown up and moved to a small town in order to take a class on the paranormal, given by the famed Professor Kosta (Cathy Weseluck). We also find out that Sara has been seeing the ghost of her mother ever since the day she died, and that she's trying to figure out the meaning of the numbers "11:11"... numbers which her mother wrote on the porch in her own blood before dying. However, Sara soon finds out that the ghost of her mother and the meaning behind those numbers are the least of her worries. While visiting her Aunt Lydia's (Jane Sowerby) house, she receives no answer upon knocking on the door. Worried, she walks in... and finds that Lydia is having sex with Jake (Chris Harrison), a guy that attempted to rape Sara at a frat party a few years back. To make matters worse, Lydia kicks Sara out so that she can continue having sex with her "hot young stud." Obviously upset, Sara goes to talk to one of her friends, and mentions that she "hopes she [Lydia] drowns in her lust" or some such. Cut back over to Lydia, who winds up being drowned in her bathtub by an unseen assailant. When the body count starts to rise as a result of Sara's misdirected curses, she must find out who (or what) is responsible for this madness. Helping her out is her classmate Seth (Paul Dzenkiw) and best friend Raden (Christie Will)... but will they be able to figure this mystery out and put a stop to the murders?
What we find here inside this little horror package is one of those movies that has a very interesting and original premise. The plot sounds great, it seems to be pretty obvious that there will be some good scares mixed in, and it basically seems as though fans of supernatural-horror really couldn't go too wrong with this one. Boy, was that some bad assumptions on my part. The problem isn't so much with the storyline, as that aspect of the film turned out fine. It was a bit hokey in spots, and there were some twists that were downright laughable, but in the end, it was entertaining enough. No, the problem lies in... well, just about everything else. Have you, dear reader, ever watched a movie and thought to yourself "They really should have cut / trimmed / lengthened that scene"? That's what I was thinking to myself throughout eighty percent of this movie. Scenes that have little or no relevance to the overall storyline go on and on (and on, and...), while scenes that actually explain or show what's going on cut away much too quickly. We see something about to happen on the screen, and then... cut over to the next scene, leaving us clueless as to what just happened. Did that person die, did they just scream and run away, what in the hell actually happened? We never find out, as they're completely ignored for the rest of the film. I'm not even going to go in depth on the whole "what were they thinking?" aspect of the film, scenes in which the main characters make decisions that are downright retarded (even by horror movie standards). I'll just say one thing about this... if there was someone or something inside my house that intended to kill my significant other and do something even worse to me, I don't think that running upstairs to grab some clothes and toiletries would be the most important thing on my immediate agenda.
Then, we have the acting. Laura Mennell has the lead role here, and while her actual acting skills are average enough, she has a grand total of two expressions on her face throughout the entire movie - the normal, going-about-my-business look, and a look of horror. It's the exact same look of horror that shows up time and time again, and if that wasn't bad enough, the look itself is downright laughable - it looks like she smelled something so horrid that she was about to cry as a result. Needless to say, this was quite distracting for yours truly. If you think I'm exaggerating, give this movie a rental... you could make a drinking game revolving around that look and be drunk by the thirty minute mark of the film. Next on the list is Christie Will (Raden), a lady who is featured pretty prominently throughout the film, especially near the end. This young lady, as good-looking as she may be, wouldn't know acting if it crawled up and gnawed on her ass. Seriously, read any line from this paragraph out loud in the most flat, monotone voice that you can muster... that would be twenty times more convincing than her best lines in the movie. The rest of the cast are a bit better, though still far from being enjoyable... but compared to the "stars" of the film, they seem like seasoned veterans of the craft.
Overall, there's really no reason to view this one. There's some good ideas here, there's one or two nice scenes, and the leading lady is pretty hot when she isn't making that stink-face. However, good ideas, a couple of nice scenes, and a hot actress does not make for an entertaining ninety-five minutes when the rest of the film completely sucks. 2/10.
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