Review – The Vault

Okay, imagine that you’re a creepy night watchman and that your only job for all eternity is to keep folks from opening a vault in the basement of an old school and letting Evil roam free. Now imagine that mere days before the school is scheduled to be torn down (presumably burying the Evil forever) a group of meddling kids shows up. Do you 1. stand diligently outside the door and make sure nobody comes near it, or 2. wander aimlessly around the building telling eerie stories to the kids’ chaperone? Decisions, decisions. Under different circumstances I’d applaud Full Moon for casting dim-witted black teens to play roles that would normally go to dim-witted white teens. Unfortunately the film-makers appear to be making casting decisions no so much out of a sense of multiculturalism but rather as part of a tasteless scheme to exploit slavery, inner-city crime and other real-world wrongs to make their crappy ghost story resonate. It didn’t work. Wish I’d skipped it