Dead Pit 1989
Every time I try to rewatch this I am disappointed. I keep thinking maybe I just was not in the right mind set. But maybe it is just that damn cover over hypes me so much. I always remember the amazing embossed vhs cover with the light up eyes which in reference to the light up eyes of the killer in the movie (spoiler whoops).
It dwells too damn much on the mental ward that the movie takes place in and makes you feel like there is a conspiracy with the people that work there and makes you want to know more about the patients. You feel for some of the patients but deep down they are not important. There is basically a ghost of one of the old crazy doctors wandering the halls killing patients. Also a young woman is in the hospital who has amnesia and she may be more connected to the ghost then we think. Her delusions may be psychic connection. But with her constantly whining and going crazy and yelling you just kind of don't care and want her to shut up. The movie is trying to be creepy by having little laughs and whispers around every corner of the asylum but when the patients are wandering around they all make so much noise and again heavily over act the moaning and giggling that they are crazy that eventually you just want them all to shut up and get on with it already. Filmed in a dark blue haze that oddly is popular with new horror films that also makes your eyes not want to stay on your tv.... or maybe the movie just isn't that interesting I don't know. The echoing screaming and crying with the hazy movie just kind of gives me a head ache. Maybe I have just stayed up too late at night watching this stuff too often.
If the light up eyed killer doctor that stabs through your eye to your brain was in this more maybe I would care. He is kind of a Lovecraftian villains meets freddy meets the killer doctor from X ray. There is a similar connection to the movie X ray from the hospital filled with untrusting doctors and mean nurses along with a killer wearing surgical gear. The killer could have been pretty cool. But when the reveal comes out and the connection between the killer and the girl is clarified again you just don't really care. The cover makes you think you are getting zombies and even that I am pretty tired of zombies I would probably had more fun with a zombie filled mental ward and a few crazy people trying to escape them.. that could be a movie. Ok .. spoiler... something like that kinda happens later.. but too damn little too damn late. Yes SPOILER that is where the movie goes but it takes sooo damn long and could have been so much better.There is one or two moments near the end but as soon as it comes back to grumpy nurses and orderlies you are like “shut up and die already”. I am writing the remake now then thats all about zombies from hell from like 5 minutes in, just to please my short attention span. And less echoing whining. HA!
