INTRODUCTION
Alas the faithful 11.11.11 or 11 November 2011 has passed. This nice number sequence will only appear a 100 years later so I guess its probably pretty safe to say that I won't be able to review this movie then. So here's a review on a movie made specially to coincide with this special date where suddenly there is a spike in the number of people who get married which serves as a very good way to remember your wedding or engagement day without wasting too much brain space.
The synopsis can be found over here but it does not reveal too much about the show and thats kind of the sad part. Because if more was said about the show... then I probably wouldn't have watched it. Noting that the directors seems to be from the SAW series, its not too gruesome in that aspect. In fact its probably not gruesome at all. But there are lots of ugly things that you will see in the show. From the characters to how the show was made in general. Anyway this show classifies itself as a thriller or perhaps horror thriller. Its a good classification, as long as u understand horror thriller to be horrible thriller
Lets not waste time and go straight into the review
Storyline
To be honest, I thought this show had potential. It had lots of potential having such a unique date and with the vagueness of the title there was many many things that could have been done. There were many references that could be used with the number 11 11 11 and everything with 11 11 11 or looked like 11 11 11 could have been used to make the show very much more unique and mysterious.
SADLY, the only 11 11 that was really used in this show was all with reference to time. So basically the show just moves from 11 11 and says oh something happened in this 11 11 oh now the time is 11 11 again and something else happens oh 11 11 11 at 11 11pm is coming and something big is going to happen.
That is what i would call a spoiler. Destroyed all the potential of the show with its uncreativeness and overall bland and dull storyline. You could basically just change all the 11 11 time reference to 12 12 12 and things that happen at 12 12 and rerelease the movie next year and it will still be able to use the exact same story line and the scenes.
Also, this show is not creepy horror type of show. Unfortunately, it follows the line of the cheap and uninspired shock scares that I feel is quite a downer to the horror genre. The screams that came from my show didn't come from any of the demons or monsters or whatever that was supposed to be scary but rather from a shock at meeting the main character's father at just a shocking and inopportune moment.
Characters
Characters are pretty normal, actors seems to be not as well known at least to me and none actually left any impact at all. In fact there was some really useless characters and roles that just seemed to be giving employment to some of the actors and in particular actress as compared to adding any value to the story. There are also certain reactions of the main character that seem to be rather unconvincing and implausible.
And the show ends up with a very unconvincing final scene that to be honest does not really seem plausible and seems more of a loophole then any logical progression of the characters.
Cinematography
I would say that this show tried to instill horror value with good angles. But since the scares were cheap scares its really not my cup of tea. The whole movie overall however feels very low budgeted with no particular reason. (Unlike paranormal activity that is supposed to follow a family so the movie can be more grainy) The whole show stays very dull and uncolored and became hard to follow.
In fact some of the cinematography made the show look like some horror house that people go for amusement rather then a real scare fest.
Music
To be fair, in terms of music, it did add to some of the scare value with all the building up and loud noises. But with such a bad story line it can be said to be the only plus point of this show
Spectacle
I don't really think i am fair if i say that horror should be creepy horror and not shock horror. I do not know what the director was trying to bring out. But even for shock horror it would be just at the average level. For creepy horror it really ending up being slightly retarded.
Overall
Storyline : 1.5 (Bad waste of such a unique premise. Should have tried harder)
Characters : 1.5 (Unconvincing, boring and bland, implausible and some were fillers)
Cinematography : 2 (Dull bland, sometimes distracting camera. There was slight pluses though)
Music : 3.5 (Only positive part of show. At least i noticed)
Spectacle : 2 (A failure in its own genre. Cheap thrill show)
Overall : 2.1 (This overall points show that this show should not be worthy of a theatricals release. No real point in seeing this show in the cinemas. Even if u have no expectation, it probably wont be entertaining either. Pick it up when it moves to DVD only IF you are really THAT bored. In fact fans of the genre might probably even find this show an insult to the genre.)
Any comments or disagreements please feel free to voice out :)
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