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By: The Chiobu |
Finish watching the trailer? yes yes?! It’s quite obvious that it’s a horror movie right?! The best thing is it’s the 7th month too! SOOOOOOO…when watching the movie the atmosphere should be even scarier right?! Oh man! YOU ARE SO WRONG! After watching this “so frightening movie”, I feel so cheated! (*ROARS* I think my roars is more frightening can!) The only scary part is the bloody scenes. No more! IT’S A CRAPPY SHOW! It’s more like a romance film than a horror film to me.
0.5/5 POPCORN!
Boo! Cheater!
Why the hell I watch this movie?! Okay, Please let me explain myself. It’s been like many donkey years since I last watch a horror movie. I refused to watch it at first but because I watched all the movies(Inception, Despicable Me, Sources’ Apprentice, Love in Disguise…) that were showing and I don’t want to watch PCK and Expandable. Seriously, I should have chosen Expandable! At least I think my 6 moolahs is well spent watching people fighting here and there. Oh wells!
“ Young writer Guo (Shawn Yue) wrote about a titular curse in his book, "The Deserted Village". It began 500 years ago in the Ming Dynasty, when one of the villagers died of terminal illness. The widow Yanzi vowed to stay with her husband forever but when the man suddenly returned to life. The horrified neighbours believed that he was a monster. They burned him to death and torched his mansion. The devastated Yanzi upheld her vow and threw herself into the fire. Since then, the village was cursed and the mansion subsequent inhabitant dies mysteriously. Some say only couples who share true love can survive in that village. Those who are unfaithful will come to their demise. To the world, the book was pure fiction. Only Guo and his ex-girlfriend Zhi (Kitty Zhang) had lived through the horror to know its existence. When four college students decided to explore the village themselves, the trip led them to an ancient well in Yanzi's mansion, where the curse was unleashed once again. “
Sounds exciting eh? Actually after watching, I don’t even know what they are trying to show. Are they trying to show a horror movie which it should be? Or are they trying to show a romance movie? Or are they trying to blend both genres(horror+romance) together? It’s too complicated for my tiny brain. I think the director attempted to blend both the genres together but he failed completely. The movie failed to meet the requirements for the two genres.
What I think is a horror movie should be scary, frightening and horrifying and a romance movie should be romantic? YA LA! Romantic blah blah. But this movie is not particularly scary or romantic. It’s only some of the bloody scenes and the used of suspense music which compensate for the scary part. Other than that, it is mostly flashbacks of the actor and actress life and romance was only evident only in some of flashbacks at the end of the movie!
The ending is seriously WTH! It’s a twist in the tale! It reminds me of my secondary school teacher who keeps telling us to have a twist in our narrative stories so as to score higher marks! But this movie does not score higher with a twist! From my point of view, I think that the twist completely spoil the earlier part of the movie. Okay. Now I shall tell you the twist. It is actually a plot of a book written by the main actress who is inspired to write by the main actor, her boyfriend who had a car accident.
In conclusion, Curse of the Deserted is seriously not worth your time to watch even though it’s off the movie shelf already! But if you want to waste like an hour of your life, you can watch it to see how bad it is.
The Bitchy You actually made me curious to watch it! hahahahahahaha!!!