July 27, 2008
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Define "slumming it."Note to budding filmmakers across the globe: Enough with the psychological horror flicks, already. We're full up on formulaic thrillers, thank you very much. Unless you've got something incredibly original to contribute to this disgustingly bloated genre, chances are your production is going to look something like Yossi Sasson's generic 2008 failure Dead and Gone. In order to distract you from horror author Harry Shannon's brutally uninspired tale of one desperate man's descent into utter madness, Sasson and crew will assault you repeatedly with cheap computer generated images, questionable editing techniques, and surprise cameos (Zack Ward, Kyle Gass) the were probably acquired at some low-rent charity auction for struggling directors. Strip away the borrowed ideas, the dollar store gore, and Felissa Rose and you've got a poorly shot, incompetently acted movie-of-the-week, a discarded episode of The Ghost Whisperer. If not for one genuinely creepy moment and a great albeit gratuitous fight sequence, Dead and Gone would have been a total wash. Unless you've got a thing for monotony, try your best to avoid it entirely. But at least Lionsgate spared no expense on the DVD artwork, right? That's got to account for something.
Recipe For Disaster: Harry Shannon's Idea Of Horror + One Predictable Ending + Why Are All Rednecks Rapists?
One More Thing: Was it me or was Kyle Gass reading cue cards?
Or was he looking at the man holding the gun?
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