Review – The Shaft

A little more time spent on the script might have made this into a genuinely view-worthy horror movie. I suppose the plot – biotechnology run rampant in a skyscraper – isn’t the most ingenious ever conceived, but it ends up being a blend of clichés just odd enough to seem fresh. The acting’s not too terrible; indeed, several of the supporting roles are played by talented and/or moderately famous thespians. The technical details were okay, and so on. Where this production drops from solid piece of low-budget horror to just another crappy straight-to-video fright flick is in the excessive screen time devoted to go-nowhere twists and turns. I suppose some of it might be excused as red herrings (though the “mystery” here doesn’t really call for a lot of diversions) or character development. But even a limited re-editing of the tale could easily have cut out a big chunk of uninteresting wastes of screen time. Mildly amusing