Cradle of Fear From:Dani Filth , David McEwen , Edmund Dehn , Emily Booth , Eileen Daly , Alex Chandon ,
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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5034377010688
Format: PAL
Number Of Discs: 1
Packaged Height: 58 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 710 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 18 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 542 hundredths-inches
Region Code: 0
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Customer Reviews:
 For the love of cod, why?, 2008-12-06
Cradle of Fear (Alex Chandon, 2001)
I go through phases, usually during the winter, where I watch an insane number of movies in a relatively short time period. Usually, when I call something the best or worst film I've seen that particular week, it's from a choice of five or six movies. This week, I've watched seventeen. Cradle of Fear is the worst of them by a country mile, and I've seen some real dogs in the last seven days.
To attempt to describe the plot of this monstrosity, which is a loosely-linked anthology film, would not only waste far more time than I already have wasted on this movie, but would be doomed to failure in any case. The film does have something resembling a plot, but it exists solely to justify endless scenes of gore. Which is not something I usually mind in a movie, but in this case, it's so obvious that it's almost daring the viewer to hate it. And once again, that's not something I'd normally complain about--I've been singing Andrei Iskanov's praises for years now--but it's not even good gore. The special effects are one step above the kind of thing you see in no-budget amateur flicks shot by drunk guys in their backyards.
I have a strong suspicion that the only reason this film got made is because Cradle of Filth vocalist Dani Filth wanted to break into the acting business. That Mr. Filth has not gotten a single live-action big-screen job since should tell you all you need to know. This isn't only the worst of the films I've seen this week, it's arguably the worst I've seen all year. A complete and utter waste of time. Half a star because, for some stupid reason, I actually finished watching it.
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