Fading of the Cries
Synopsis:
The movie started with Sarah (Hallee Hirsh) moving in with her sister, Jill (Mackenzie Rosman) and mom, Maggie (Elaine Hendrix). However, during one night out with her friend, she witness her whole farm town is attacked by hordes of zombie like demonic creatures.Jill and Maggie managed to escape the attack by holding up inside their house while Jill was saved by a young man named Jacob (Jordan Matthews) who has a sword that could protect them. Soon, the movie reveals that an evil wizard named Mathias (Brad Dourif) is searching for an ancient necklace that he claimed was stolen from Sarah's uncle, Michael (Thomas Ian Nicholas). So, the movie keep panning back and forth from how Micheal firstly learn black magic to the unleash of Mathias, and then back again to Jacob saving Sarah by keep on running through the streets, fields, churches and tunnels to escape the zombie like hordes. During that moment, both also reveals their own secret past in order to defeat the demons.
Review:
The movie started nicely with Sarah and the whole town being attacked by the creatures - actually not really creatures but is human with their eye areas painted black and some wore white make-up powder. It was quite interesting with the background suspense soundtrack. But then, after Jacob came saving the princess in distress, all went downhill. I think it took about 5 minutes after the movie start. It shows that Jacob running along with Sarah along the road, town, field, tunnels, churches and then breaks awhile while taking a rest, then repeat again the running and finale is running to the field. I felt exhausted after watching them running again and again and again. I guess the movie has not much script to go about, so what do they do -- yes, you are right. Running. The supporting cast was incidentally much better than the lead cast. Maggie played by Elaine Hendrix was so much better than the poorly acting of Hallee Hirsh playing Sarah and Jordan Matthews as Jacob combined. How in the world did director, Brian Metcalf find such poor actors to play lead cast. As usual, Brad Dourif is always over-acting in his character, so nothing much we can do to improve the situation of the movie. The movie has potential to be a decent and okay movie with its cinematography, special effects and sound department, but instead, the movie will turn to made-for-TV type due to its poor script, poor screenplay and above all poor acting.
Verdict:
A 1 star out of 5. Kick out the lead actors.
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