Tockinit not horrible nor great

Solidrariol Am I Missing Something?

Whitech It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.

FrogGlace In other words,this film is a surreal ride.

Ed-Shullivan Estella Warren put on the best performance in the movie, period. There was not much more going on than a lot of idle blather. I really tried my darnedest to listen intently and learn about the five main characters as they interacted with one another, but my attention span kept flipping over to what may be in my fridge because there was absolutely nothing of interest in Evil Remains. The opening scene allowed the movie to clearly prove it was a horror film but it also set up the tempo for the movie with that long drawn out eerie music and then the anti climax when a friend or family member jumps out rather than the serial killer.Oh, the serial killer? Well he happens to be an abused son who retaliates by first murdering his abusive father and then his dear mom at home. The movie then flips forward several years and a student decides to do his thesis on whether the house is still haunted and whether or not the son is still alive and living on the property so many years later. The psychiatrist who assisted the disturbed killer (before he was a killer) tells the student that rumors abound of the killer living on the property and running around with a dogs head covering his face. I believe the intent of covering the killers face with a dogs head is for the audience to still have some questions in their mind as to who the killer is. Is he the abused son all grown up? Or is he actually one of the five (5) students who are out to investigate if the killer still lives. Actually four of the five students just ran their mouths so much that I didn't care whether they lived or died.The ending was predictable and the movie continued to deteriorate from the opening scene. Estella Warren seemed to actually be fighting for her life, too bad she didn't stay away from making this movie, as it will be a blemish on her career.

movieman_kev Mark, a graduate student is working on a major tome on myths, and after interviewing the psychiatrist (the great Kurtwood Smith in an awkward little bit part near the beginning and end) who was treating Carl Bryce, a boy who brutally murdered his parents, decides to go on a road trip to the site where it all happened on the chance that the land there might be cursed, an urban myth that would help with his book. Once there with a few friends in tow, they discover that they may not be alone in this generic & bland slasher film.While the opening 'prolog' scene showed promise for the rest of the film, I found my hopes quickly dashed as it turned out highly derivative and had characters who talk and yell to no end that were bland and hard to care about. Yea there's a good scene here and there in the film. But the movie as a whole just failed to work for me. Thankfully I just saw it via Netflix-online view so the only thing I really waisted was my time.My Grade: D+

pierotti Like some others the only reason I rented this movie was because of Estella Warren. Not just because she is a hot babe, but because she seems to be trying to develop into an interesting actress, however, she also seems to be struggling with the types of films and roles she is offered.Overall Evil Remains is a mess. Most scenes are filmed in natural light which especially in the indoor scenes makes everything hard to see and action very difficult to follow. The film to which it bears the greatest resemblance for the first hour or so is not the slasher movies to which it is regularly compared, but the very strange and disturbing Session 9, which also concerns a group of people trying to function in place of great spiritual disturbance.For some reason the male and female characters are completely separate for all of the crucial action. Perhaps this is related to the alleged lesbian theme, which is never developed. I still have no idea what happens to any of the male characters except two of them seem to die, of course that's hardly news in a movie of this kind. I'll return to the third male character later.Meanwhuile the two women wander the woods and find lots of bear traps, the function of which is never explained. This keeps the women away from the house so they can conveniently return to be threatened by something? I'm still not sure what. Anyway during the whole film Estella Warren's Christy is the only character who ever seems to act in a rational matter, making her sort of the equivalent of Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloweeen.I think that one major issue with Estella's career is that she almost always plays a strong, sensible woman who happens to be lovely, For some reason this combination seems offputting, perhaps even threatening, to the teenage boys at whom most Hollywood films are targeted. In every movie she's been in, except for The Cooler, Estella has been the strongest and most memorable character. In the wretched remake of Planet of the Apes she was the frustrated young human who had to watch Marky Mark disappear up his own asshole. In Driven she played the only actual woman present. In Tangles she played a funny sexy girl caught up in the head games of a trio of self-involved neurotics. In Kangaroo Jack she appears to be the only character who can think things out. Now in Evil Remains she is again the strong woman faced with insanity and irrational behavior.(Spoiler Alert) The intelligence of her character means that she is the only apparent survivor. My suspicion was that Mark was the actual killer, possessed by the spirit of the house, or some such nonsense. He is the only other character you never see die. This would also explain the professor's odd warnings about "being sure of your reasons for going" at the beginning and end of the film. Having said this, I hate the ending of this film. The implication that Christy, as the only survivor, would be accused of all the deaths and locked up is nihilistic and does not conform to the spirit of such films.To sum up this film wants to be more than it is. It is not really frightening to anyone used to such films. Like Session 9, what it is is dreary and depressing.

birdsofpreyrulz This movie is great. I really wish this didn't go straight to DVD because even though I now own it and can watch it over and over again I think that the movie would have done pretty well in theaters. I think that all the stars of this movie deserve the money from theaters seeing as how great of a job they did in this flick. Estella Warren is really the only one I think that doesn't put on a great performance.Daniel Gillies puts on an awesome performance as Mark, Clayne Crawford puts on a brilliant performance as Tyler and Ashley Scott is more brilliant than ever having her role down perfectly and easily steals the show.The killer who wears a mask made out a dogs head looks kind of cool, but not that frightening. Overall though the kills more than make up for it and the atmosphere or the movie is brilliant. I highly suggest anyone of the horror genre to go and pick this up asap.The Ending is really good as well. This is something all horror fans should enjoy.