DEADTIME

DEADTIME

UK, 2012
Director: Tony Jopia

3/10

Lame British comedy-slasher about a rock/metal band locked into a rundown studio where they get terrorized by a mysterious killer. I actually expected this to be in the vein of 80s hairmetal-horror flicks like "Trick Or Treat" or "Black Roses", unfortunately it turned out to be an amateurish, poorly directed and badly written low-budget flick that just can't decide between silly comedy and brutal gorefest.

The good:
The first 25-30 minutes are fairly entertaining, the cameos of Leslie Grantham and Joe Egan are cool, the very first kill is brilliantly brutal and there are a few pretty funny dialogue lines

("At least I don't get fucked in the toilet." - "Honey, you are the toilet." /

"Led Zeppelin (...) sold their souls for Rock 'n' Roll, baby... what?" - "Uuuh, load of old bollocks.").

The bad:

The movie is 15-20 minutes too long, there's nearly no suspense or atmosphere, and it's packed with too many horribly boring, horribly slow scenes where people talking over and over and over.

The soundtrack is basically quite solid (nice rock tunes, interesting Dead-Can-Dance-like music) but they're using the same songs over and over until it gets plain annoying.

Furthermore, the acting ranges from mediocre to terrible and pretty much every single character is a prick. Huge thanks to the 2 cameramen who make the set, an abandoned building, look like there's only a few rooms and a backyard, although one character claims that "the building goes on for miles".

Worst of all: there's gallons of CGI gore which looks sooo effin' awful, it makes movies like "Dismal" or "Wrong Turn 3" look like they were made by James Cameron

Nice try but no - "Deadtime" is bad time.

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[Thanks to Clare from Hudson PR for sending me a Deadtime screener]