Okay, if someone can explain this to me, I'd be very grateful. I've watched this trailer a few times and I can't really understand what the hell the plot is (if there is one...) From what I can gather, there's a guy with some enchanted sword who takes it upon himself to slay a whole town's worth of demonically possessed people. There's also a slimy looking villain who reminds me a lot of Grima Wormtongue from
The Lord of the Rings. The film itself looks as if it was directed by a sub par mix of Guillermo del Toro and M. Night Shayalaman (and with homage to the zombie flicks we love so much). I'm not convinced, it looks like a mishmash of things and nothing really coherent stands out. All the demon swordplay makes me think it would make a pretty exciting/mindless video game, but that's about it. Take a look and make up your minds:
Those evil townies do remind me of a very good xbox game. Candle lady looks cool. With that special touch power she could give people a tan with no risk of cancer, just possible deamonic possession. The storyline reported on the Wik just says the girl and boy are trying to get back to the big house to watch something equally scary on tv, like Eastenders. Pretty sure it was worm tongue as the baddie. The xf for magic looked good but i agree the plot appears at present odd. Lets hope another trailer comes out with more clues or i will just have to go see it to sate my curosity.
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It looks like it's going to be one of those films that'll make the SFX as good as they can so they can gloss over the better things like what the hell is going on.
ReplyDeleteJust checked on IMDB, it is Wormtongue as the bad dude. Looks like he hasn't really changed since then. Shame.
I'll go see it to see if I can figure out what the hell they're on about (the same sorta thing happened with Night Watch, which I kind of enjoyed - but something got lost in translation, I think).