Movie; Skeleton Crew (2009) Caution; Spoiler Alert

Skeleton Crew

 

Came out; 2009

Time; 90 Minutes

Watched on; DVD

Rating; R for strong bloody violence throughout, some sexuality and pervasive language

IMDB Rating; 3.6

Rotten Tomatoes Score; No Score

Caution; Spoiler Alert

Synopsis; An asylum is being used by a film crew trying to film the movie “Silent Creek” based on murders that occurred in the 70’s. The institution was shut down after Doctor Andersson “The Auteur” was caught making snuff films of himself torturing patients to death. It was believed that all films were confiscated, yet the location where they were developed and screened was never found. While doing recordings, the crew find a hidden room. It contains the Doctor’s undiscovered recordings, although the crew is disgusted by the snuff films, they decided not to call the policec. The director of Silent Creek becomes obsessed with Andersson’s films. He beings to act deranged, claiming their film is “not real enough”.

Staring;

Rita Suomalainen as Lisa

Steve Porter as Steven/The Auteur/Sanders

Anna Alkiomaa as Anna

Jonathan Rankle as Darius

Thoughts;

The movie starts, you think you are actually watching the things that happened. Turns out you are watching the filming of the movie within the movie.

The movie is real “campy” and the acting is actually pretty bad. The plot and locations were awesome. The start of the movie was good, but then once they find the hidden “room” it becomes obvious what is going to happen, especially when the crew decides not to call the police.

The movie did have a few things going for it, it was filmed on location in an actual old abandon mental hospital in Finland. The creep factor is there with this. The plot was really good, snuff films aren’t put into movies as the horror factor generally, other than 8 mm with Nicolas Cage.

Better actors and less sex would have made this movie perfect!