Horror Movie Review: Chill

Chill was a low budget, Saturday afternoon, bored out of my mind type of movie. No need to watch this in the dark, ladies and gentlemen . . . it just isn’t scary.

I can handle bad acting. A low budget does not bring in top actors. That’s fine. All in all, the actors did a decent job.

My beef with Hollywood is often one thing: Production and editing. However, this story had major flaws in the plotline.

If movie makers would take the time to polish an idea, I think we’d have better movies. Chill is a perfect example of this. Let me give you an example:

A stranger moves to town. Seems like a decent guy, right? He goes to a convenient store, looking for a job. After, he walks outside and a good-looking woman comes up to him. Here’s basically how the dialogue goes:

“Hi.”

“Hi.”

“I noticed you are new in town.”

“Yes. I just moved here.”

“Would you like to come to my apartment for dinner?”

Really?

Build the characters and let their relationships develop . . . please! Normal people don’t do these things and it makes for an unrealistic setting. These are things that Norman people just don’t do.

Also, the bad, evil doctor wasn’t all that scary. I suppose, at the end, it becomes a little more convincing, but not much.

Oh, and of course there is the pimp, who repeatedly calls his girls, “My bitches”. Over and over and over again. Ok, we get the point.

Cheesy and not entertaining. I’d suggest something different.

-Vincent Hobbes