Dead Still (2014) (original) (raw)
Synopsis
Stay still, dead still.
Upon the death of his great grandfather, Brandon Davis - a wedding photographer - inherits an antique camera famous for taking Victorian death photography. After photographing his subjects they start to die from horrible, bizarre deaths.
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Upon inheriting his great grandfather's estate, a wedding photographer discovers those snapped with his ancestor's antique camera used in death photography meet grisly ends...
A SyFy original with potential marred by a style akin to the entire Saw franchise's grimy pensiveness condensed into an edible block forced down your throat. About halfway through one grows lightheaded by nearly every desaturated shot being an extreme dutch angle. The finale spins off into a Spirit Halloween fever dream featuring campy ghouls similar to their lenticular ghost portraits (including one that looks suspiciously like Sinister's Bughuul).
Ben Browder is fine at channeling his inner John Schneider but Ray Wise obviously steals all thunder as the insane grandpop shutterbug. Death scenes are more hilarious…
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This was my pic for a supernatural Horror film, and christ it was a bad choice! The warning sign was the Sy-Fy movie credit. It was a cheap slow moving film, some terrible CGI moments and no tension at all. A great idea with a death camera being used again and the people in the photos dieing a supposedly nasty death, not really as its poorly done, just watch the tramps death! My wife fell asleep and I nodded off a few times.
The story was good, this was kinda cheesy, but the kills were good.
didnt finish because girl what is this plus amazon prime said it was made in 2023 but i searched the director and yep 2014 anyway…..bad i can’t finish it and cannot handle anymore of the makeup
Pictures worth a thousand words but I only need one. No.
Don't ya hate it when bad movies happen to good ideas?
I don't even know why I'm going to write about this. If I told you that there was a low-budget film about a photographer who comes across an antique camera that is possessed by the evil spirit of a murderous photographer from a hundred years before and soon the camera is responsible for some gruesome deaths, you'd probably say "Nope. Not for me. That sounds shit". Well.... you'd be right. But I watched it anyway. Perhaps I hoped it would have some kitsch charm, a tongue firmly fixed in its cheek and with a wry wink. No. Writer/director Philip Adrian Booth presents Dead Still (2014) as straight as possible, not once glorying in his terrible writing, overexposed lighting, annoying close-ups and Dutch angles, boring gore make-up and wretched performances he draws from his actors (including a game Ray 'Twin Peaks' Wise). This is terrible. Not "aw, bless" terrible. Just fucking terrible
Grimy, nonsensical, unmemorable.
Decent concept, some cool gore scenes, and Browder is always reliable. Overall though it held back too much. Would have worked more if it went full Hellraiser.
I wanted to say "Ray Wise deserves better than this", then I remembered he also agreed to be in Chillerama, God's Not Dead 2, AND Batman: The Killing Joke
so
he doesn't
This should have been about a cursed camera that kills the people it photographs. I don't know what's worse the cgi or that they wasted good $ on this garbage.
What a shame this didn nothing for me. Ray Wise is certainly the star as it was great to see him dabbling with all manner of macabre devices but the rest of the film was horrible. The cast were really wooden and there wasn't a scare in sight. Not quite sure why Ray Wise signed up to this one as he tends to make the right choices.