Review of Needle (2010) by David L — 08 Jan 2013

Good, but could have been so much better! When a teenage boy gets left with an antique artefact following his dads death, little does he know what power it possesses, until it's too late. This half a million dollar contraption is actually a device made for enforcing revenge in the most fatal of ways! All the owner has to do is insert a picture of the desired victim, wind the crank up, and voila.

.........a voodoo doll is created which can be tormented as much as one likes, with the sequence of torture being mirrored on the actual being it has been intended for! Unsurprisingly enough, the film then revolves around the boy discovering who is inflicting all these subsequent deaths of his friends having had the contraption stolen from his room! Although I'm not a big fan of voodoo and witchcraft, the concept is quite basic and easy to follow but the potential of this films entertainment value is not maximised by a long way.

Instead of devising innovative and cringe worthy ways of making each of the victims suffer I.e. Final Destination style, we just witness the same death one after the other, which is a bit of a waste. The twist ending I did not see coming, but that's more me being thick than it being original, as it's one that anyone could have seen coming.

Having said that, the storyline did have a nice flow to it, it's only once you reach the end that you feel particularly uninspired and are left with a feeling of what could have been!