Karma’s a Bitch
However, when entire plots are copy-pasted from several unrelated movies, this results in a very disjointed final product. A strange sensation that I could not completely get rid of: at the movie’s conclusion, the screenwriters appeared to run out of thoughts and ideas. Moreover, piling twists one upon the other bore style of M. Night Shyamalan, and does not help the case either. When you overuse them, as is the case in the movie, you lose interest in the plot impersonally.
What is worse than all this is that for an hour and a half, you have to bear because of quite despicable characters Come under the spells of quite unsympathetic actors. Bizarrely, Elise, the main character, does nothing more than whining and weeping. And when she finally does bring the conflict to a head, it happens so out of the blue, the plausibility of it is debatable. Mark (played by Will Merrick), the English boyfriend is quite cocky, while the Italian girlfriend is quite forgettable. The doctor does very little in engaging with the rest and is quite tense. Fabrizio is such an attention seeker that he quickly becomes annoying. Honestly, I felt some relief when they were all killed.
With all due respect, don’t hold your breath for the actors. It is possible to appreciate them but considering the author’s bad script and weak characters, that is slightly difficult. On the whole, A Classic Horror Story is also suffering from a fatigue, sadly self-inflicted. I thought of the last year’s Nobody Sleeps In The Woods Tonight, the first Polish slasher, that borrowed heavily from the films and television series of the eighties. But the team of that picture managed to pick up the plot, as well as a lot of crazy killings and timely emergence of very strange supporting characters, and everything turned out to be very entertaining. Unfortunately for us, De Feo and Strippoli have completely zero sense of humor; you first saw the words ‘flaccid phallus’ in this review about 57 minutes into the film, as the first joke was uttered. How embarrassing. You can’t really change the whole picture just by showing that first and last joke.
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