Chuck
Connors, William Shatner, Tammy Grimes, Paul Winfield
This movie is HILARIOUS. One of the most misguided and
ill-executed stories I’ve ever seen, Horror starts with a potentially
hot concept (a red-eye flight is transporting a cargo of Druidic ruins…
and William Shatner) and fucks it up in every conceivable
way. First, if an airline flew a plane that apparently seats hundreds
of people with only 7 passengers on board, they would be bankrupt by the
time they landed (there are literally as many crew members as travelers).
Second, the set looks like community theatre leftovers and the special
effects are riotously bad. Third, the Lifeboat-style
clashes of trapped personalities are so forced and cheesy that the resulting
squabbles are far more amusing than tense. Watch for a hot possession
freakout, tons of overacting, the most thinly-drawn characters you could
ever imagine, and a frozen dog. Entertaining for all the wrong reasons.
Amanda Plummer’s equally squirrely mother Tammy
Grimes turns in a fantastically bizarre performance as a bitchy
Brit.
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