Official Score = 1 Devil[/caption]I have to admit it folks, I was and still am a little bit of a Melissa Joan Hart fan (Drive Me Crazy). Don’t get me wrong, I am very much a Horror and Science Fiction fan. But there are other facets of my interests when it comes to TV and Movies…
As a matter of fact, there was a time when I watched more comedy’s (whether they be slapstick, screwball, intelligent, or romantic comedies), and watching those genre’s was how I became a fan of Melissa Joan Hart’s work… I mean I had seen both of the TV shows that she had been involved with when I was a kid (Clarissa Explains It All & Sabrina The Teenaged Witch), and don’t worry folks, I was never interested in all that teeny bopper stuff…
The truth is, is that when I was in high school I had gotten real interested in teen comedies, (stuff like, the original American Pie series and 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) to name a few), and the movie that got me interested in her work being, Drive Me Crazy (1999)!
Since the release of that movie though I have not really followed her work very closely, so from seeing her in teeny bopper comedies and the like to going to kind of a hard core horror movie like, Nine Dead (2010) was kind of a fascinating transition!
Now this movie is a very complex story, and kind of an edge of your seat story of the mistakes that people make, when 9 people are taken captive by a deranged maniac and imprisoned inside of a cellar, and told that they, ‘have to find out what their connection is to each other’, and that he will come back every 10 minutes and kill someone until this unlikely band which includes a cop (played by: William Scott Lee), an Assistant D.A. (Played by Melissa Joan Hart), an Insurance Salesman (Played by: James C. Victor), a Priest, (played by: Marc Macaulay), a Chinese store owner (played by: Lucille Soong), A gang banger (played by: Edrick Browne), a low level Mafia Lieutenant, (played by: Chip Bent), a Pedophile (played by: Lawrence Turner), and an actor (played by: John Coates) find out what they have in common with each other...
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The kidnapped and the kidnapper in, 'Nine Dead' (2010)![/caption]In the end though, their only saving grace is to work together, because if they can find out why they have all been kidnapped and placed in the same room together, then the killer himself will set every one free and arrange to have himself placed under arrest!
I have to say though that the best part of this movie was mostly the story and the vision of Chris Shadley (Cloverfield)… What I mean by this is that I have seen William Scott Lee and Melissa Joan Hart in other work and they did a great job in that, but the truth is, is that they alone could not carry the film, and neither could the rest of the cast, (the type of racial and sexual stereotyping in this movie was a little to much for me.)
The special effects were nothing to great… good… bad they were what they were, and the story was kind of cool up to the ending, when it became convoluted and pointless…
All in all, this movie had potential, the only problem is that it just could not live up to that potential!
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