Review of When Evil Calls (2006) by Adrian A — 20 Jun 2008
This is billed as a gruesome horror, and when I saw that Sean Pertwee was in it I was expecting the best.
Alas, it wasn't to be.
What you are actually getting is a black comedy that is a cross between Steven King's "It," "Tales From The Crypt" and heavily influenced by Edgar Allen Poe's "The Monkey's Paw.".
To top this, the performers are using the brechtian system of acting rather than the Stanislavsky system we have become used to.
For the layman this means that not once are we expected to believe in the characters because all their performances are deliberately fake.
A complete disappointment from beginning to end.
This review of When Evil Calls (2006) was written by Adrian A on 20 Jun 2008.
When Evil Calls has generally received negative reviews.
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