Monday, May 23, 2011

"Haunted" - 3D Scare or 3D comedy?

What better way to enjoy the "boss's" absence then by sneaking a few hours to watch a movie? Well thats what we did. All of us really wanted a good scare. Going by the name and the posters we really believed that this movie will give us the fright we were looking for.

Slipping out of work is not a very easy thing to do. It takes a certain level of slickness that we all lacked. None the less we managed to sneak out and reach the theatre ontime for the show to commence.

From the frst shot what we all noticed was a confused expression on the hero's face. From then on reel after reel we were never short of being amused. One scene after the other passed and all of us were left waiting for the "haunting" to begin.

We learnt a lot though.... like some ideas on spirtis getting most strong at 3AM and being the weakest at 3PM. We also learnt that through the cigar smoke of a vagabond, one can be trasported from 2011 to 1930 ( what a fool that was who made the time machine!!) Call it history repeating itself, but literally in this case. The story has no basis, no truth, no scare very obvious scenes and the last 20 minute drag to get the movie to complete the 2 hours 30 minutes timeframe.

I would definitely rate this one as a comedy rather than a horror movie. Infact we enjoyed the comments from the back rows more than we enjoyed the movie. But hey, not all is lost, there is just one wee bit of silver lining. The hero is shown running for most part of the movie. Every second scene has the hero running. Maybe it would be cool to enroll him in the national level athletics team. He might just do well with all the practice he has had through this movie!

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