Title: The GatheringDirector: Brian Gilbert
Starring: Christina Ricci, Kerry Fox, Steven Dillane
Runtime: 92 minutes
Year: 2002
Source: Generation X Video
Why this is being marketed as a horror is beyond me. I'd file it under the way to boring thriller section, personally.
The movie opens up with two teenagers running up a hill, only to fall into a crack[?] and die. Yup. Fun, huh? Seems as though they fell into the middle of an old church that was covered years ago.
As this is going on, Cassie [Ricci] is wandering through England on foot when she is hit by a car. Once she wakes up, she's without any memory of who she is, where she is from, or why she is in England [as her accent clearly reveals she's from America]. The women who hit her, Marion [Fox], feels terrible so she invites Cassie to stay with her family at their place.
The father of the family is Simon [Dillane], an art historian who is currently examining the church mentioned above. Sounds weak and boring, doesn't it? Cause it surely is.
Cassie starts to have these visions of the people around her being killed off. The visions are neat enough, I guess, but too bad the actual deaths don't live up to them, nor does the time between them. The story is easy to follow if you can keep your eyes open. No wonder it took the studio 5 years to release this. I like Christina Ricci enough, she's cute enough in that geeky kind of way but damn, that girl brings death to the majority of the films she is in. Go back to the Casper days, little lady.
Not recommended.
j.
ps. I've been sick all weekend and still am, hence the lack of updates. Watched a few movies but all of them complete stinkers. More updates soon, ha. :)
3 comments:
Ricci is a bit hit or miss. I love her in Buffalo '66 though. It's not horror, but check it out if you haven't seen it....and start feeling better already while you're at it!!
Ricci was also great in "Black Snake Moan," from earlier this year. But yeah, she's definitely hit or miss.
CG - I've yet to even hear of Buffalo '66, I'll track it down and let you know what I think of it. I'm working on that whole feeling better thing. :)
Jonathan - I started watching Black Snake Moan, can't seem to think of why I didn't finish it. I have it laying around here somewhere, I'll have to toss it in someday. She's a knockout in it.
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