
Europe, the late 19th Century: Janick is a brilliant but ultimately doomed young doctor in a remote town under the black cloud of a great Plague. His radical theories about life and death make him an outcast, driving him from his position at the medical college and from his beloved Esmeralda, into exile. Soon after Janick disappears Esmeralda becomes sick, and without his help, shortly dies. Enter a mysterious masked figure who exhumes her newly deceased body, takes her back ... (Full plot summary below)
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Europe, the late 19th Century: Janick is a brilliant but ultimately doomed young doctor in a remote town under the black cloud of a great Plague. His radical theories about life and death make him an outcast, driving him from his position at the medical college and from his beloved Esmeralda, into exile. Soon after Janick disappears Esmeralda becomes sick, and without his help, shortly dies. Enter a mysterious masked figure who exhumes her newly deceased body, takes her back to his remote lair and begins performing experiments upon it. Waking to find herself given a new life, Esmeralda slowly begins to re-learn the simple acts of life: eating, walking, dancing... all under the watchful tutelage of her mysterious savior. As awareness slowly creeps back into her psyche, she begins to wonder what his true motivations are.
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| Film ThreatMatthew SorrentoThe film's overall style wants more than Janick's quest to reanimate one woman - an entire world seems doomed, if only Town's scenario could show it. |
| User ReviewCristina M2009 US Director: Mike McKown and Jim Towns Score: 8 Shot on (as I understand it) an extremely low budget around industrial sites and an abandoned asylum (which has since been demolished) in Western Pennsylvania, this film does an excellent job of re-creating the silent era of moving picture entertainment. Shot between 2003 and 2005 on digital video, it captures the look of the classic silent era films amazingly. I have no doubt that some, maybe many, will shrug their shoulders at that and ask ?who cares?? That?s fine. I can only speak for myself. I thought this is an outstanding production that recreates the roots of cinema. This is a retelling of the Frankenstein story, and not a bad version of it. The effects, and I include those used to make this digital footage look like an old monochrome silent film, are very good, especially considering the budget this film had to work with. The acting is pretty good. I know this can be deceiving in a silent film, in fact that was one advantage actors had in the silent era. Even if they sucked at delivering their lines, who would know? It was up to us, the audience who reads the lines, to use our own heads to add the emotions and inflections into the lines. So for all I know these actors were a bunch of cheese meisters. In this film, they appeared to do just fine however. Since it is a silent film, the soundtrack was a key element. It has to really help convey the emotions and tensions of the scene. This one does a fairly good job at this. One bit of trivia I read on this film was that the woman who played the main character Esmerelda, Kelly I. Lynn, completely disappeared before the film was fully shot. Apparently to this day they have no idea where she went or if she is still alive. A body double was used for the few scenes she had left to be shot. Strange. Real horror genre fans should give this one a viewing since it is an excellent homage to the very roots of the genre. Anyone looking for ?something different? as far as movie viewing should it interesting as well. Notes: HV-N Suggested Age: 16+ |
| User ReviewMichael AI thought this was a good effort, there are some stunning visuals in this but I did think it ran about 20 minutes too long. I was also confused by some of the logic also. Both attacks on the road made no sense to me. I was impressed by the idea and also the fact that it was entirely shot around Pittsburgh PA. |