Visitors
Year: 2002
Director: Richard Franklin
Written by: Everett de Roche
Threat: Ghosts
Weapon of Choice: Fire
Based upon: none
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The tyranist's thoughts
Maybe import restrictions are loosening, or maybe the advent of digital technology is
just making distribution more possible, but it seems to me that there is a lot more foreign
horror sitting on the shelves at my neighborhood rental emporium these days. This
particular film hails from Australia, but really could have been made anywhere that
had access to a large body of water.
So a woman sets out to go round the world on a boat all alone. Most of the way through
her trip, she is becalmed and very strange things start to happen. Through a generous
number of flashbacks we find out more about her past and what lead her to this place.
And we care less and less.
The movie is clean and had a decent budget for what it was trying to do. The setting is
naturally creepy which lead to a few shivers on my part. Other than that though, it seems
that they really couldn't decide what the film was supposed to be. Is it a horror tale?
Is it just a movie about someone trying to come to terms with her past? In the end they
obviously couldn't decide because they manage to roll credits without much resolution
at all.
This borders on a one-woman show and has more than one long, dry stretch. It just
really wasn't my kind of movie, but then I didn't really enjoy Cast Away all that
much and there are some obvious similarities between the two necessitated by the
setting. That's not to say that if you liked Cast Away, you'll like this one at
all. But you might like it more than I did.
Total Skulls: 12
| Sequel | ||
| Sequel setup | ||
| Rips off earlier film | ||
| Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie | ||
| Future celebrity appears | ||
| Former celebrity appears | ||
| Bad title | ||
| Bad premise | ||
| Bad acting | ||
| Bad dialogue | ||
| Bad execution | ||
| MTV Editing | ||
| OTS | ||
| Girl unnecessarily gets naked | ||
| Wanton sex | ||
| Death associated with sex | ||
| Unfulfilled promise of nudity | ||
| Characters forget about threat | ||
| Secluded location |  |
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| Power is cut | ||
| Phone lines are cut | |
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| Someone investigates a strange noise | |
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| Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door | ||
| Camera is the killer | ||
| Victims cower in front of a window/door | ||
| Victim locks self in with killer | ||
| Victim running from killer inexplicably falls | ||
| Toilet stall scene | |
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| Shower/bath scene | ||
| Car stalls or won't start | ||
| Cat jumps out | ||
| Fake scare | ||
| Laughable scare | ||
| Stupid discovery of corpse | ||
| Dream sequence | ||
| Hallucination/Vision | |
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| No one believes only witness | ||
| Crazy, drunk, old man knows the truth | ||
| Warning goes unheeded | ||
| Music detracts from scene | ||
| Death in first five minutes | ||
| x years before/later | ||
| Flashback sequence | |
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| Dark and stormy night | ||
| Killer doesn't stay dead | ||
| Killer wears a mask | ||
| Killer is in closet | ||
| Killer is in car with victim | ||
| Villain is more sympathetic than heroes | ||
| Unscary villain/monster | ||
| Beheading | ||
| Blood fountain | ||
| Blood spatters - camera, wall, etc. | ||
| Poor death effect | ||
| Excessive gore | ||
| No one dies at all | ||
| Virgin survives | ||
| Geek/Nerd survives | ||
| Little kid lamely survives | ||
| Dog/Pet miraculously survives | |
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| Unresolved subplots | ||
| "It was all a dream" ending | ||
| Unbelievably happy ending | |
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| Unbelievably crappy ending | ||
| What the hell? | |