Vanishing on 7th Street

Plot: When a massive power outage plunges the city of Detroit into total darkness, a disparate group of individuals find themselves alone. The entire city's population has vanished into thin air, leaving behind heaps of empty clothing, abandoned cars and lengthening shadows. Soon the daylight begins to disappear completely, and as the survivors gather in an abandoned tavern, they realize the darkness is out to get them, and only their rapidly diminishing light sources can keep them safe.

Sounds pretty good huh? Quite original yeah? Let me start by telling you straight, this movie is complete shit. Harsh you may think, but this is a steaming pile of do-do which goes straight in to my top 5 pieces of slop-fuck filming.

Face it, he just can't act

The first 5 minutes are ok, a whole cinema full of people just disappearing in to thin air. Ghouly type shadows moving around, some nice sound effects of ghostly whispers and a little bit of tension. Then Hayden turns up and things go down hill faster than shit through a goose. He simply is the worst actor in the world, nah, the universe. More wooden than a rain forest. This is his worst performance so far.

Thandie, stupid name, stupid girl.

Soon we meet Thandie Newton's character. She switches from a kind off well to do doctor type, to a deep sothern black mama! Her dialouge is utter rubbish and makes no sense. She also dips in to religious nutter territory for a full 5 minutes, then it's forgotten. She is probably the worst thing in this mess of a movie.

Ring his neck!

Even the usually great John Leguizamo cant save this film. He whines on for about an hour before disapearing, and when he does, we simply do not care. There are no scares at all. This is not a horror, full stop. The ending is as bad as the beginning. And the middle. The only good thing about the ending was the horse eating the apples. He had nice big floppy ears and a swishy tail, so that was quite nice. The rest of the film was......bollocks. Worst of the year so far.

Now, this is a new part of Rabid Hamsters site, I am gonna ask my lovely girlfriend, Kelly, who watches most of the films reviewed here, to write her own paragraph on the movie. She is not a horror fan at all and is not a fan of B-Movies so it will be a different take to mine and give a different perspective. Over to kelly:

"Shit"

Thank you kelly.

Summary:

Great because:

• Fuck off

Crap because:

• It got released

Hamster Rating: 0

Gore: 0

Scares: 0