A Life Most Ordinary

13 Seconds (2003) (V)

OK so since Hide and Seek was such a disappointment I had to rent another scary movie...well long story short some slow people starting at the end of the alphabet forced us over to the beginning where we found a scary looking box with a man with a pnetagram on his throat...which was never in the movie. The case also showed awards that were won at several non-Cannes/Sundance film festivals. Well this peeked our interests and got the rental.

Within 10 minutes of watching the film we were ready to turn it off. I would describe the movie as a High School Horror Film with some college level "special" (as in olympics) effects. The acting and dialogue was like watching kindergarden students struggle through reading aloud for the first time. The plot was ludicrous and the surprise ending was perhaps even more absurd. It was amazing to see camera shots that looked like they were taken on a camcorder filling the time. At no point in the entire movie do I remember there beign a wide shot. Sadly they failed to make the house creepy, the bad guys scary or the characters likeable or recognizable.

I applaud the people at Blockbuster for picking up and stocking this little independent gem, but the movie truly has no place near movies as terrible as Blade Trinity and Along Came Polly, it's just that bad.

Whats that old saying, "You can't judge a book by its cover" well you cant judge a DVD by its cover either.