Dreadfully Boring

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

The Borderlands (USA Title: Final Prayer)Format: DVD Language: English Released: 2014Director: Elliot GoldnerStarring: Gordon Kennedy, Robin Hill, Aidan McArdleThe Borderlands is the first outing by British director Elliot Goldner, and it's good. While it's not going to revolutionise the horror genre, it certainty does it justice. A simple story pulls together elements from British Folklore, Pagan and Christian beliefs, and intertwines them in such a way that is alien enough to keep you on the edge of seat because your really not sure what is coming next.Goldner approaches the film in a minimalist style that is a hybrid between a found footage film and a documentary; the end result being a rather excellent, eerie moodiness throughout that builds tension all the way to the end.If on top of this, you add a fantastic job by Gordon Kennedy as Deacon as well as some good supporting roles by Robin Hill as Gray and Aidan McArdle as Mark you get a genuinely unnerving film that fits nicely in to any horror fan's collection.Before I get carried away however, I must add that the film ending for me, is a little disappointing. Don't get me wrong, it not that it's bad as such, as it is an interesting take on an old Pagan legend, it just feels out of place with the rest of the film giving it an abrupt finish in what was an other wise well-paced film. Credit however must go to Goldner for trying to bring something new to the table and not relying on an overused run-of-the-mill finish as numerous low budget films do.With that out of the way I would say that this is a must watch film for a fan of horror, it's clever, chilling and at times truly horrifying, the burning sheep scene is one such moment that sticks in my mind. All aspect of a filmmaker's toolkit is used to overcome the budget constraints with special praise going to the sound, editing and cinematography. Elliot Goldner is now firmly on my radar and I look forward to seeing what he comes up with next.

So , looking for a movie to watch and found this one.. impressed by the high IMDb rating , I started reading the reviews; which were glowing !! So I spent the $5 and rented it - bad mistake. The acting is great. It's found footage and that's always annoying , the story takes about a half hour for anything to happen.. just rather boring and irritating character development. One of the 3 main characters is just awful. Text book annoying guy. This just wasn't a good movie. 75% of it is mild and totally uninteresting "scares" , they even throw in a very typical jump scare , which to me is so lame. The last 15 minutes are the "climax" and it's just more shaky cameras and - this is like something my brother would have made with his friends in high school. Very low tech. Screaming , camera cutting out and blood squirting out of mouths. I am easily scared and not hard to please. But this movie, for me was awful. Just not good at all. So I wanted to save everyone else from this ... if you like found footage , there is better out there. In fact a great film that is independent and free on Netflix and similar topic wise is "The Shrine". Another good one is "The Bay" another one is "Exists" all of these found footage and all better than this.

A pair of misfits investigates spooky goings on at an ancient church.Weirdly bad, with an incompetent intro sequence. The story is simple MR James stuff, but the setting just doesn't fit - a Vatican investigation of a church of England building with a congregation of zero? It reminds me of another embarrassing recent Brit horror set in ancient vaults, but I can't recall the title. To be honest, I don't want to.At one point I swear they called the parish priest Father Crillie - surely this was going somewhere funny? But no, the drama was deadly earnest and deadly dull, with weak attempts to inject character. And not a single female face. Failure of imagination. Sad to see the lead actor in this kind of production at his age.Cinematography was poor - no attempt at framing, everything in the middle of screen - but I liked the sound.

I found it pretty hard to rate this movie. It starts off as a pretty standard haunting horror type movie, although perhaps a little too slow for my liking. Once you get past the awful acting of Robin Hill (sorry bud) as Gray, the rest of them are not bad at all. But, without wanting to spoil it, I actually quite liked the ending. It definitely wasn't the ending I was expecting. And the endings are usually what suck the most about horror movies. I'd actually be quite interested to see if Elliot Goldner directs any other horror movies in the hope that he improves the starter and main course of his movie but with the continued spot on desert!