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Good story, Not enough for a whole film

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Some young adults (with models) are in Spain when one acquires a game from an artifacts dealer who apparently disliked him. If they complete the game, they get a wish. However, if they draw a death card, they are out of the game...all the way out. The game, from what I gathered originated during the Spanish Inquisition and is made from a witch's body parts. But don't worry, the curse cards to the game which describe their death are written in modern English with a font to make it look old. Phew! Didn't we see this in another movie with tarot cards?The film is predictable with no twists. It lacked imagination.F-bomb, brief sex, brief nudity, one guy gets crabs.

Oh Eliza! Whatever possessed you to be part of this nightmare? The only "horror" about this film is that it was made at all. A group of nice-looking booze and sex fueled 20-something's play an antique game, and then start dying. Luckily for them, even though the box containing the game was passed down from the 15th century Spanish Inquisition, all the cards are in pristine condition AND conveniently printed in English! WOW, what luck! There are absolutely no surprises or suspense whatsoever, as this has been done many times before in many better ways. Sadly, even the gratuitous sex scenes generally associated with this genre are almost non-existent, apparently to devote more screen time to the horrible deaths. Out of deference to Eliza Dushku, I cannot give this the one star rating it truly deserves. The rest of the actors are mediocre at best, God-awful at worst. All are completely forgettable, as is the film itself within fifteen minutes of viewing. Skip it, even from the bargain bin.

Okay, OPEN GRAVES is poor. Surprisingly poor, considering the effort that has gone into this low budget production; although it's a US-financed movie it was shot in Spain with a Spanish director and supporting cast. And yet it turns out to be completely horrible, which is all thanks to a lacklustre storyline.A group of brain-dead surfers are the unlikeable protagonists in this film, among their number the minor horror star Eliza Dushku (WRONG TURN). They get mixed up in a dark world of voodoo and horror when they start playing a game which sees them dying for real. It's much like the 1990s film JUMANJI, where the board game came to life and took the kids on an adventure, except with a horror slant.Not that there's much in the way of horror here. This a murkily-shot production where swathes of boredom are interspersed with a few mildly gory supernatural death sequences. For some reason, the filmmakers are reliant on very poor CGI effects to keep the movie going, and it sinks the production further. OPEN GRAVES is a real stinker, that's for sure.

This could be quite significant if wasn't for its excessive use of clichés, its lack of imagination (the ending being the worst of its kind. Really? Doing all over again?) and lack of appealing things in the story (but the actors are very appealing though). Maybe significant isn't the right word. With proper writers and director this movie could be less insipid and actually become a good work.So, here's a bored group of young guys and girls playing an old game, a relic from the Spanish Inquisition given to one of those guys. What the game does? It reveals the tragic fate of all of its players unless someone's able to defeat win the game and choose a better destiny. If you thought that it has something to do with change everything, never find the game at all, yep you've won a prize. It's always something like this. In this mix between "Jumanji" and "Final Destination" the poetic cards of the game reveals strange yet well written things (and in English when the game was from Spain). However, the characters deaths might cause some strangeness such as being killed by a bunch of crabs or hilarious CGI snakes, whose appearance made me think that if a producer don't have enough money to spend with visual effects then don't make the movie at all, that can save the producer and the viewers from the embarrassment. More dopey than that is when the character remembers that her fate was something about being consumed by the fire and next thing she's doing is drown herself in the water. HELP!"Open Graves" (known here as "The Curse of the Dragonfly") deviates from being a lousy film because Mike Vogel and Eliza Dushku hold the ties in a good way, making of this mess almost enjoyable. If it wasn't for them this could be a total loss.It's drab - big time! 5/10