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The Blind Dead
05-07-2007, 09:31 AM
A lot of horror films in this day and age have either been tales remade, spun off, ripped off or somehow taken from another film. Very rarely does something leak out of Hollywood or B-Movie Land that doesn't have some other kind of influence by another director or film. It's hard seeing a lot of these films because essentially you're seeing the same thing over and over again just with different characters in a somewhat different scenario with nothing else really going for it. It's a shame because there are hundreds if not thousands of ideas for films that haven't been used and have yet to be made.

Thankfully some of them are leaking out and Return in Red manages to be one of the films that had a group of people who wanted to make something different and that they did. They took something that no one had really done before and ran with it even though they had little to no money to speak of; this actually helped the film more than hurt it.

The whole concept behind the film is that the government is experimenting with certain electromagnetic frequencies that can affect the way a person behaves or acts. Certain waves of frequencies shot into someone's mind can either cause them to become raging maniacs or bumbling idiots. So the government decides to test out some new frequencies on a small mid Western town that begins to turn the populace into violent maniacs when they hear the sounds emanating from...[READ MORE HERE] (http://www.joehorror.com/0000801.html)

hatefuldisplay
01-30-2008, 10:31 PM
Man, I just finished watching this. I felt it was way too slow. Better pacing could have made this film much more enjoyable. It came to the point that I felt I could have used the bathroom without missing much. The acting was horrid for the most part as well.

The few good points of this film were:

1. The always-sleepy character seemed pretty well done. I could actually believe his role.
2. The factory ending was pretty sweet once the action started moving along.
3. The premise was different.

Again, I felt the film had potential. Unfortunately, it ended up being boring for the most part to the wife and me.