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DVD Review – DARK CORNERS
4/27/2007
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Reviewed by Andre Dellamorte

I have and will continue to watch DTV films. I make no bones about this, cause I think it's a noble pursuit. Eventually, someone will make a good one, one worth defending and fighting for. Fuck it, worth recommending.

 

The best I can come up with is the Dukes of Hazard prequel because it has comedians and tits. Roadhouse 2 was also modestly competent. So it goes.

 

So I just watched Dark Corners, which Anchor Bay has released, and which stars Thora Birch and Toby Stephens (who might care to forget as one of the bad guys in Die Another Day). And I have the same problems with it I have of most DTV films. Its not scary, it's not really interesting or new or fresh or anything. But it is there. There's just something about the craftsmanship of DTV films. Is it that a rose by any other name? Is it that, especially when compared to the film's I've been watching at the New Beverly's Grindhouse run, most of which are regional pieces, are just loaded with more energy and care? Or is that everyone knows that if it were any good there'd be more money? I don't know. But I'm sad just the same.

 

Birch plays a girl with blonde and a girl with dark hair. They may be the same person. There's a killer in both of their lives, a Dark Strangler, who is killing women. Whenever one Birch sleeps, the other wakes up, though the dark haired one has more psychotic visions, while the blond has been trying to get pregnant and is having these bad dreams. Spooky fish.

 

Eventually the two halves collapse on each other, and that should be the big something. It isn't. Cause this is DTV, Dellamorte. And so, unless you findhooded killers stabbing women still frightening, or low rent versions of an Aphex Twin video eerie… yeah.

 

The only extra, besides trailers for this film and other fine Anchor Bay releases, isa 13 minute making of.

 

 



 
     
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