October Horror Season 2: Day 16

For serial killers day 2 we watched "Horsemen" from 2009, starring Dennis Quaid.



For a movie written by the man behind "Doom" and "The Expendables" and directed by someone who primarily does concert videos, this is surprisingly competent.  Unfortunately as a good thriller it falls flat.  The direction and the editing is jumpy and often confusing.  The writing isn't horrible but it's not too impressive either.  They seemed like they wanted to take the Pseudo-biblical overtones of "Se7en" and mix in a touching father/son reconciliation story, what they ended up with was a mess.  Don't get me wrong, the movie was sick and disturbed, which helped as a payoff but it couldn't save it.  There was no investment in the characters, especially not the victims since they barely even mentioned most of their names.

And the ending twist of Crying Emo kid Apocalypse was just sad.

Thorough disappointment, since "Se7en" already exists and does the same sort of thing so much better.  As much as I enjoy visiting Dennis Quaidia and President Dennis Quaid, I can't recommend this either.

Stay tuned for "From Hell".