Silent Madness

I don't know why I had a good time with this movie. I shouldn't have. The acting is mediocre. The ratio of scenes filmed in focus versus scenes filmed through a lens smeared in petroleum jelly is 1:1. The 3D effects are of the Jaws 3D variety. The twist can be seen coming three galaxies away with the naked eye. The kills are amost entirely bloodless cutaway shots. There are visible errors, not just continuity errors but actual filming errors left in the movie. Nothing about this movie should work. And yet, for some reason, I had fun. Not a tremendous amount, but fun just the same. Maybe I was just in the right mood to appreciate the campy, B-movie nature of this. Maybe I give too much value to how the Final Girl is a 35 year old doctor, and not a nubile teenager. Maybe I'm just crazy. But there's a certain, hosted-by-Rhonda-Sheer-on-USA-Up-All-Night goofy charm to this movie. It won't amaze you in any way, but it's just dumb enough to be fun without being in on the joke.