20140209: Horror Review--The Big Bad

The Big Bad

1. Fundamentals, reception.
1. American live action feature length film, 2011, rated R, 77 minutes, horror
2. IMDB: 3.8/10.0 from 138 audience ratings.
3. Rotten Tomatoes: 'No reviews yet,' 0% liked it from 16 audience ratings.
4. Netflix: 2.3/5.0 from 27,615 audience ratings.
5. Directed by: Bryan Enk.  Written by Jessi Gotta.
6. Starring: Jessi Gotta as Frankie Ducane, Jessica Savage as Molly,  Timothy McCown Reynolds as Fenton Bailey, Patrick Shearer as Carter Petch, Alan Rowe Kelly as Annabelle.


2. Setup and Plot
1. Frankie and Molly, two women with rage issues and non-healing wounds, meet at a bar and get to know each other over drinks and drugs.  They eventually bond over the fact that they have both been bitten by a werewolf.


2. Molly turns; Frankie deals with that.  Then Frankie is kidnapped and taken to Annabelle, who rips out one of Frankie's eyes to replace one of hers.  Frankie eventually counterattacks and gets away.  She finds her stepfather, Fenton, and his alter ego.


3. Will Frankie get free of the werewolves, or become part of the community?


3. Conclusions
1. Vanity film, since screenwriter = lead actor = co-producer => 3 x fail.
2. One line summary:  Bad werewolf script overshadowed by terrible camera work.
3. One star of five


4. Scores
1. Cinematography: 2/10 Framing, lighting, focus, depth of field, and continuity errors---all suck rocks.  Throw in shaky camera.


2. Sound: 4/10 Not very good.  I needed the subtitles all too often.


3. Acting: 0/10  Uniformly bad.


4. Screenplay: 0/10 That opening was -8 points all by itself.  The film's plot development was as murky and jerky as the camera work.  None of the characters were interesting.