I don’t know if Maverick Entertainment got some kind of deal when they picked up their last few horror films from over in the U.K., but man are these films really starting to get to me. At least with Death Knows Your Name it was a little bit better than the last film they sent me. Now with that said, let me just say that with the exception of a few British horror films, and I’m talking the big budget ones, I’m really not a fan of most of films that come out of the U.K., I find them all to be boring, and not for nothing but being from the United States and a noted stupid Yankee in their minds, but in all seriousness sometimes the way some of these actor talk really gets to me after a while. Maybe it’s just me but all Brits sound the same. Ok now that I’m done ripping on Tony Blair’s people, I’ll get on with my review.
Death Knows Your Name has a basic yet somewhat complexed plot. It’s about this psychiatrist who discovers a skull in the tunnels underneath this hospital. In the hospital is an insane asylum, where some of the doctors patients are talking about so guy who tells them their all going to die or some shit. Anyway as they try to reconstruct the skull this virus starts to spread throughout the hospital and you guessed it; things get wild from there.
Here’s the thing, I have three Televisions in my office, one on my computer, a regular one with a DVD player and a small one where I can keep an eye on my daughter in her crib. Usually only one is on, But I’m a Yankee fan and I need to multitask when the games are on. I got about halfway though this film, which I’ll admit was very good, but halfway though I lost interest, and my eyes went from the movie to the game, and then I watch my daughter do sit-ups for about five minutes, which means she needed her diaper changed, paused the film; did that and tried to get back into this film. Still was bored. So I shut off the Yankee game and tried hard, I got though it, but it was painful.
The acting is alright, I think what I found to be the most interesting was the lead looked a lot like my future brother-in-law. I mean they guy looked just like him. He was pretty good in the film as well as the rest of the cast, but the overall appeal of their voices got to me, however because of my dislike for their voices I can’t be biased towards the performances in this flick and I will go on record as saying that the actors were pretty good in this film and worked well with the script that was provided to them.
The overall production value was ok, however in terms of lighting I think the crew tried to hard to make us think they shot on film, when I know dam well by the look of some of the scenes that this was shot on digital. There were scenes that looked like really bad soap operas. The make-up effects although not many, were alright. The first half of the film hardly has any effects at all, but what’s there is nothing new.
Overall, Death Knows Your Name was alright, but has it’s issues. I’m not going to say it was a very bad movie because it did have it’s moments, but the bad obviously outweighed the good in my opinion. It’s nothing new in terms of originally either.
– Horror Bob
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