Run
Hide Die
(2012/Image DVD)
Picture:
B- Sound: B- Extras: D Film: D
Collin
Joseph Neal's
Run Hide Die
is a low budget horror film with all of the right ingredients: cute
girls, a cabin in the woods, a killer on the loose... but somehow in
its short running time (under 80 minutes) manages to create a drab
piece of cinema and many scenes that make little to no sense and one
of the worst slasher villains in recent memory. The film stars
Thomas Brophy, Nathan Christopher Haase, Keiko Green, Tabitha
Bastien, Ivey Bronwen, and Alicia Mendez.
A
year after Addison Davenport's husband was found murdered in their
home, the emotional wounds are still raw and gaping. On this
devastating anniversary, Addison's in-laws generously offer her their
summer cabin as a healing retreat. With her four best friends in
tow, Addie sets off for this idyllic spot, deep in the woods, to find
some peace and possibly even some fun. But it soon becomes clear
that the girls are not alone, as each is savagely captured and
terrorized. One of them is hiding a dark secret, for which their
tormentor plans to exact a brutal revenge.
While
the film starts out as just your typical slasher, it feels very
disjointed and thrown together. Some scenes, involving one of the
girls escaping by breaking a zip tie that is bounding her hands with
an earring, baffle the mind and are too implausible to buy. The last
act of the film essentially consists of the women being tortured and
screaming and yelling over each other with most of the dialogue
impossible to make out that ended up just annoying me. On top of
that, the cinematography and lighting are pretty amateur so even the
filmmaking quality isn't necessarily good. Unless you are big fan of
torture films and not really into a horror story that makes sense,
you can safely avoid this one.
Presented
in standard definition with an anamorphic widescreen aspect ratio of
2.40:1 and a lossy Dolby Digital 5.1 track, Image has done a fine job
putting the film on disc for the format. No extras.
-
James Harland Lockhart V
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