Red Canyon

Movie was alright. Norman Reedus did a good job. The others not so much.

The storyline is ok its not the best. The only good acting is by Norman Reedus (star of the amc series the Walking Dead) its an interesting film twists that you would never see coming.i has to be said that all in all i did enjoy this movie you should watch it

This movie was okay, but there were a lot of things that the characters did that didn't make a whole lot of sense. And I don't like seeing Norman Reedus play a bad guy :)

Regina and Devin are siblings with a troubled past, Regina is especially haunted by an event that took place 8 years previous in a 'secret party cave' near the small desert town of Red Canyon. Now let's never speak of this bizarre cover up again... But that was then and we've all moved on. So guess what happens? Regina and Devin join with a group of cheap, pretty and all too happily disposable vacuous teens for a trip in a big red van back to... you guessed it! Red Canyon. That is probably mistake #1 right there, especially given that Regina is still deeply troubled by the *unpleasantness* that took place, and in fact still has regular broken flashbacks that punctuate her thoughts. On the way into town the kids meet with various characters of varying degrees of menace, all there primarily to provoke wonderment as to which one will prove evil and diabolical, and which ones will likely be offed along the way. It seems everyone knows Regina's story, and some openly ponder why she would return to the very place that the events took place - not least of which was me. After some dirt bike shenanigans and general teen stupidity, mainly from a tall handsome dude who only seemed to speak in moronic inanities, Regina and crew head back to the very cave that changed her life. The remainder of the film is only facilitated by a myriad of dumb decisions, blatantly stupid mistakes and incredible lapses of logic. This is one of those films where kindy kids would escape in minutes, but supposedly mature teens flounder inexplicably, doing everything shy of painting bullseyes across their big shiny foreheads. For example, if just once someone simply turned around, they'd see a bad guy lurking and have the chance to run away. Instead they wander around while we the viewer remind them that homicidal maniacs are in the area, and perhaps glancing about may be beneficial. Other clichés include splitting up to look around, and sending someone for help in the middle of the night because the phones and power are out. Horror has gotten really lazy. Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury: I give you yet another exhibit A. Final Rating - 3 / 10. I prefer my horror plots to be one extreme or the other: totally outlandish or vaguely possible. Red Canyon tries valiantly to be vaguely possible, but comes unstuck due to the outlandishness of events and decision making, and a total absence of logic. If you liked this review (or even if you didn't) check out oneguyrambling.com for over 1,000 reviews and plenty more good stuff...

<strong>Red Canyon</strong> (Giovanni Rodriguez, 2008) You've seen this plot before (if you're me, you've even seen it in the last week): traumatized young thing Regina (<em>The Hottie and the Nottie</em>'s Christine Lakin) is brought by her brother Devon (<em>Swimming Upstream</em>'s Tim Draxl) back to the family homestead so they can sell the place, but it turns out that the traumatic event that made Regina go bats in the first place is waiting in the wings: it has something to do with Mac (<em>The Boondock Saints</em>' Norman Reedus), the local meth dealer, and she has to figure out what it is before (a) it happens again and/or (b) she goes nuts. (And if you can't figure out what it is from even that vague synopsis, then let me recommend you Laurie Halse Anderson's book <em>Speak</em>, where most of us figured out the EXACT SAME TWIST from reading the jacket copy.) Even given that it's entirely predictable, it's not a total lost cause. Reedus plays a slimeball with aplomb, even when he's the good guy (viz. <em>Boondock Saints</em>), and his performance here is chilling. Lakin is better when she's imitating Barbara from <em>Night of the Living Dead</em>, but between her and Reedus, they almost pull the rest of the cast out of the crapper. Not quite, but almost.Sonnel Velazquez' cinematography is great when he's doing wide-open spaces, but he's got to work on the cramped cave shots. He's got a future in front of him, though. Not a complete waste of time. **

Another winner - not. There should be a law about making movies this bad trouble here is the movie it tries to copy wrong turn wasn't very good to start with.

Really fucking boring. Do not watch this. It's not a good movie if you're just waiting for it to end and hoping for everyone to die because they're so annoying and badly played. I don't know how many times I impatiently said "Oh just get over there and kill them all" while watching, it's a horrible thing to say, I know, but I just thought it was so excruciating to watch. At least until the last twenty minutes of it or something like that (maybe less). The ending was pretty good but it wasn't worth waiting for, it wasn't enough. IMHO (= in my half-drunk opinion.)

One of the best horror movies I have seen in a long time!

<strong>Red Canyon</strong> (Giovanni Rodriguez, 2008) You've seen this plot before (if you're me, you've even seen it in the last week): traumatized young thing Regina (<em>The Hottie and the Nottie</em>'s Christine Lakin) is brought by her brother Devon (<em>Swimming Upstream</em>'s Tim Draxl) back to the family homestead so they can sell the place, but it turns out that the traumatic event that made Regina go bats in the first place is waiting in the wings: it has something to do with Mac (<em>The Boondock Saints</em>' Norman Reedus), the local meth dealer, and she has to figure out what it is before (a) it happens again and/or (b) she goes nuts. (And if you can't figure out what it is from even that vague synopsis, then let me recommend you Laurie Halse Anderson's book <em>Speak</em>, where most of us figured out the EXACT SAME TWIST from reading the jacket copy.) Even given that it's entirely predictable, it's not a total lost cause. Reedus plays a slimeball with aplomb, even when he's the good guy (viz. <em>Boondock Saints</em>), and his performance here is chilling. Lakin is better when she's imitating Barbara from <em>Night of the Living Dead</em>, but between her and Reedus, they almost pull the rest of the cast out of the crapper. Not quite, but almost.Sonnel Velazquez' cinematography is great when he's doing wide-open spaces, but he's got to work on the cramped cave shots. He's got a future in front of him, though. Not a complete waste of time. **

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