B-grade wannabes

Bloody Murder and Unseen
Magna Pacific, Rated MA15+
Reviewer: Pte John Wellfare

If you come across these two movies in the video store, you'll get the impression they are tacky, B-grade horror flicks. You'd be wrong, however; these movies can only dream of being B-grade, as they are little more than home videos.

Bloody Murder aims to be a typical summer camp slasher movie that the blurb on the back of the video will describe as "timeless", but even if you like that sort of thing, you'll find this a tiring addition to the genre, with its red-food-dye special effects and a plot that feels as though it was made up along the way.

Unseen is a different type of horror flick, trying to be something between Alien and Indiana Jones, but, of course, it falls so far short of the mark you'll wonder how I made the comparison.

This one actually tries to use computer-generated special effects, but as you would expect, the quality doesn't even measure up to The Twilight Zone; they would have been better off using puppets.

I wouldn't recommend wasting your money on these, as you could do a better job with a group of mates, a handy-cam and a one-hour lunch break.