The Vault
Year: 2000
Director: James Black
Written by: Douglas Snauffer, Carl Washington Jr.
Threat: Ghost
Weapon of Choice: Glass
Based upon: none
IMDb page: 
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The VaultYear: 2000 Director: James Black Written by: Douglas Snauffer, Carl Washington Jr. Threat: Ghost Weapon of Choice: Glass Based upon: none IMDb page: |
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The tyranist's thoughts
I waited way too long to write this review. Actually, it's only been a week since I watched the
movie and it took me fifteen minutes staring blankly at the TV to recall anything from it. Maybe
that will tell you how forgettable it was.
A group of 4 kids (go ahead, you know who the four were: nerd, stoner, jock, cheerleader, they've
only been in every horror flick over the last 8 years) and their teacher all go to a boarded up school
that is about to be torn down. Why do they go? Well, in the movie the teacher gives some lame-ass
excuse, but really there is no good reason. Oh, and the school seems to be haunted. But no one
knew that. Until now.
This really is pretty standard haunted house sort of fair with the only unigue twists being that a)
it is a school and not a house and b) the cast is all black. With a super-low budget that was likely
almost all spent on one decent effect, there just isn't much here for the casual viewer.
The film isn't terrible, though. It's just not good. And there's nothing worse than mediocrity folks.
I have to admit that I picked this one up because it had the Full Moon logo on the back. Those
of you that have been reading for a while will know the love I hold for Full Moon. Unfortunately,
this was a flick they picked up for distribution rather than one of their originals. I should have
spotted that sooner and stayed away.
Total Skulls: 14
| Sequel | ||
| Sequel setup |  |
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| 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 | ||
| Power is cut | ||
| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| Warning goes unheeded | |
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| Music detracts from scene | ||
| Death in first five minutes | |
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| 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 | |
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| Blood fountain | ||
| Blood spatters - camera, wall, etc. | |
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| Poor death effect | ||
| Excessive gore | ||
| No one dies at all | ||
| Virgin survives | |
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| 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? |