The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer
Year: 2003
Director: Craig R. Baxley
Written by: Ridley Pearson
Threat: House
Weapon of Choice: Vision
Based upon: novel - The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red - Ridley Pearson
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The Diary of Ellen RimbauerYear: 2003 Director: Craig R. Baxley Written by: Ridley Pearson Threat: House Weapon of Choice: Vision Based upon: novel - The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red - Ridley Pearson IMDb page: |
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Other movies in this series:
Rose Red
The tyranist's thoughts
I didn't watch Rose Red when it was on TV last year, and I haven't rented the
DVD yet. Perhaps I'm just not as big a fan of King as Rish is. He certainly would tell
you I'm not. But when he e-mailed me today telling me that The Diary of Ellen
Rimbauer would be on tonight and he wasn't going to watch it, I decided to pinch
hit for him. I feel kind of weird watching a sequel to a mini-series that I didn't watch, but
oh well.
So this time out we are going to be treated to the original story of how Rose Red was
first built and the crazy lady who wasn't so crazy at first. Naturally there is death and
mystery involved.
I'm not sure that not seeing Rose Red hurt me at all. This is a slick little production
that falls into the made-for-TV-movie category rather than mini-series. Good thing
too, as I'm not sure they could have stretched it another minute. The production values
are nice and it was fun to see a period piece set in 1910, which is much closer to us
than most. The acting was good, the plot was solid. I wouldn't say it was inspiring stuff,
but the movie was pretty well done. I usually try to act all snooty when talking about
made-for-TV stuff, but I have to say that this was better than average. Perhaps not
good. Not buy the DVD good, but it is worth a rent, especially if you liked its
predecessor.
Total Skulls: 11
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| 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 | |
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| Death associated with sex | |
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| Unfulfilled promise of nudity | ||
| Characters forget about threat | ||
| Secluded location | ||
| Power is cut | |
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| Phone lines are cut | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | |
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| Flashback sequence | |
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| Dark and stormy night | |
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| 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 | ||
| Unresolved subplots | ||
| "It was all a dream" ending | ||
| Unbelievably happy ending | ||
| Unbelievably crappy ending | ||
| What the hell? |