Review – Dark Carnival

Dork Carnival is more like it. I hope this was somebody’s film school project, and furthermore I hope they flunked. Everything about this production is stupid. The haunted-house-that’s-really-haunted plot is as trite as it is uninteresting, the script is wretched, the acting is amateurish at best, but the terrible production values really take the cake. It’s like the filmmakers deliberately sought the most awkward cuts and uninspiring camera angles. My favorite actor was the kid who plays a haunted house character who sacrifices a victim to “mighty Isis,” only she has such a thick accent that she chants “mawty awsis.” Sometimes movies this bad make it all the way to the so-bad-they’re-good category, but this flop can’t even pull off that dubious distinction. Wish I’d skipped it