The Haunting of Alice D (2014)
In the late 1890s the Davenport House was a famous and successful brothel, until a young prostitute named Alice killed herself there. After her death, the brothel became haunted by Alice's ghost, and was eventually abandoned. More than a century later, the old structure is renovated into a beautiful mansion. It is still rumored to inhabit the ghost of Alice. Despite this, the new owner; the rich and arrogant heir to the Davenport fortune, decides to throw a wild party for his first night in the house.
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Blistering performances.
The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.
His is a plot explanation spoiler review in case you haven't figured things out from the early clues, but not plot spoiler per se.A large brothel was home to Alice a rebellious prostitute and committed suicide. Four generations later the family still owns the house and a party ensues of four guys and prostitutes. One woman supplies the party with LSD, which is delivered through the whisky which has a note "see you on the other side" some buzz words for acid users, i.e. Doors "Break on Through to the Other Side." A story is then planted in everyone's mind about Alice D which sounds a lot like LSD, get it...which unfortunately they couldn't create a decent movie around the pun no better than Joan or Arcadia.The question as to how real is the ghost they briefly see or is it hallucination.On a side note about LSD: placing it in a bottle is bad business as there is no way to measure dosage which is tough enough to begin with. The second aspect is that anyone who has done LSD, knows what the onset feels like (tingling at base of skull) and also know when they are on it. You just don't suddenly start to "see things." In fact most of the time you don't see things, you just think everything is funny...especially MST 3000 designed for acid users. I hate it when people who have heard one Grateful Dead song, think they know all about acid trips.Guide: sex, brief rape, nudity.
If you think things will get better after the opening scene - they won't.The only reason I have given this one star is because some of the acting isn't bad.Every other aspect is TERRIBLE.A director who doesn't know how to direct - camera operator(s) who have no idea about lenses or the basic operation of a camera - a sound recordist/boom who has no idea of how to capture decent sound - a lighting director who has no idea of lighting. This is a mess.The colour grading is bad. The editing is bad. The story never really gets going - and goes nowhere very fast.Even if you have some spare time you would get more entertainment from watching back to back commercials for 85 minutes - I joke not!
There is something really annoying in this movie, beside the sheer fact that it exists. So this guy throws a wild party, but trust me when I say, this is the most boring party ever. Why? No freaking music. The sound manager botched the movie even more by amplifying the noises (kisses, walking sounds, hitting) while the dialogue is toned down. Very unprofessional. Then we come to the acting. I give it a solid F. Effects are non-existent. The guy in charge of killings is obviously very shy cuz all killings happen off-screen. Then they show you the bodies smeared with cheap ketchup. Well, I barely finished watching this movie, and already having trouble remembering much, so I'll draw the line here. If you respect and value your time, skip that floater.
OK so I never make reviews of movies ever, but this one I just had to. This has to be the worst movie I have ever seen - AND I couldn't even watch the entire thing. We fast forwarded through it after the first 20 minutes. Number one, HORRIBLE acting. I felt like I was watching someones home video from 1985. Trashy. Number two - the sound was horrible. It sounded like the actors (if you can even call them that) had mic's in their mouth and ass - it was acoustic sounding and you could hear everything from a girls necklace moving to them breathing it was so annoying. Lastly, it was just stupid and annoying, the camera would just stay on their faces without them talking just standing there and at the end, which basically the only horror was towards the end, which wasn't even horror, you couldn't tell what the hell was going on because the camera man was all over the place and then they just kept showing 2 bad actresses laying on the floor breathing heavy. Just horrible.