2020 Directed by Pamela Moriarty
Joan Huntar, a real estate developer, buys an old summer camp. However, the property has a dark history of supernatural worship and human sacrifice. A celebration weekend turns deadly when construction uncovers the mythical Stonehenge of America. Deadly spirits are awakened and kill to gain control of this supernatural gateway. Unable to escape, Joan and her family must fight for survival and defeat the spirits from beyond.
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Lori Petty (Point Break) y Judd Hiesch (Día de la Independencia), no se cómo terminaron en esta película de bajísimo presupuesto con un guión que parece improvisado sobre la marcha.
Es una especie de terror con tintes gore sobre una antigua maldición que por momentos parece mas una producción de las que SyFy Channel hace para televisión.
Paper thin in every aspect of its story and storytelling, "A Deadly Legend" may be best described as an unwise use of 80 minutes. It almost is not all bad. The horror film about a more-or-less haunted piece of land about to be developed into usable real estate sports a steady genre premise and couple of reputable supporting actors. Aside from those minor strengths, all of the rest smacks of flimsy filmmaking, novice acting, and a general inability to turn the set up into anything compelling. There are worse low-budget horror flicks to be found, but this has very little holding it up.
So bad it's amazing. For all those beer lovers out there this movie is PERFECT for you
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The bland, Lifetime like, afternoon TV exterior (complete with saccharine dialogue and fade out/fade in scene transitions) belies one of the most incomprehensible, barking mad horror films to come along in a while. The plot? ermm...something to do with the excavation of 'the Stonehenge of America' resulting in pick axe murders, feuding spirits vying for control of a supernatural gateway and ghost pagans possessing the living. I guarantee that a) you'll laugh your ass off throughout b) have barely any idea of what is going on, and c) wonder how they managed to get actors -who you'd think would be above this kind of thing- to ham it up onscreen. Judd Hirsch is the crazy old man warning of death and destruction, Corbin Bernsen wields a magical staff and Lori Petty is the permanently drunk lesbian aunt you wish you had in your life. As the film's Jack Torrance wannabe says "NO BRAKES!!!
What an absolute mess. I can't imagine what money they offered or what money the actors needed to get Bernsen, Hirsch, and Petty in this.
There's a lady in a chain mail bikini and a score that makes early '90s Full Moon features seem like they were soundtracked by John Williams.
This is 100% Rifftrax fodder. I can only assume it was funded purely to be mocked at a future date.
Both stars are going to Lori Petty's beer lady. That was hilarious. Other then that this was horrible. It was all over the place and hard to follow. I dont mind low budget but that isnt the problem here. The person that edited this needs to find a new career. It literally goes scene to scene with no transition it just goes black like a comercial is about to come on. Just jumping back and forth and you cant figure out what is happening. I cant believe I stuck it our but I wanted to at least make sense of this. Saddly the end didnt prove to make any more sense then the rest of it,There are some actual decent stars in this too, like why did they agree to be in this?
A Deadly Legend was a directorial debut for Thai-born Pamela Moriarty who resides in New York State and has a number of credits as an assistant director before this.
The film’s setting is a summer camp. This leads to the initial expectation that what you are going to be watching is a Slasher Films – Friday the 13th made the summer camp into one of the archetypal settings for the genre and numerous other works followed suit. This turns out not to be the case and in fact A Deadly Legend jumps aboard the fad for Folk Horror films that has emerged in the last few years. There are witches and suggestions of puritan rites occurring in the background, while…
It's a lot like every séance/Ouija board movie out there --- a game becomes serious, one reluctant person hesitates, someone breaks the circle, etc. As usual, the first question, "Is someone here with us?" is answered immediately by an entity just standing by, waiting for their call. And it has the infuriating trope of not listening to the guy who can save them all.
Not listening is the problem in alien invasion movies, killer movies, demon movies, etc. We as a society should probably work on that, too.
Although, I WAS glad when the drunk punk who never shut up was killed.
One delicious thing was watching the "corporate" bosses try to manage their way out of the supernatural hell…
A lifetime movie about evil things going on with a small town and a construction site. It's ok and by ok I mean it gets by the horror aspect and the fact that Lori petty is in this doing all her crazy shit but she does get annoying at one point. The fact that the black dude and young teen lives make me have to be a little nice. It's still borning and hard to sit through but it's passable.
Nah this aint the one.
Hmm. How do I feel about the last 80 minutes or so of my life? I don't know. I'm sort of numb but for once it has nothing to do with it being 3:42am. This movie...had a few all right spots. I'm convinced that the actors weren't bad, they just had shit to work with. I'm still deciding whether this was lazy script writing or bad directing. I'll let you know if I decide by the end of this review.
The story centers around a piece of cursed land that is purchased for renovation but that is quickly forgotten because there seems to be only one construction guy who is a friend of the family. His girlfriend is randomly the…
