Review – Twice the Fear

I guess the math in the title is based on the notion that two bad, amateur shorts are somehow scarier than one long horror movie. Actually, as genuinely amateur fright pictures go, I’ve seen worse. To be sure, the production values are pretty low. The sound and score are terrible. The filmmakers seriously needed to invest in a tripod; c’mon guys, they don’t cost that much. And while we’re talking, you should probably be told that letter-boxing cheap video doesn’t really make it look less like cheap video. Otherwise, if my video production students turned this in as a final project, I’d have no problem giving them at least a B or so. Most of my disappointment in this anthology stems from the deceptive promo on the box. The description implied that this was the product of professionals, which is at best a questionable proposition. If nothing else, the claim of a 90-mintue running time is a blatant lie. Thank goodness. See if desperate