Aberration
(2013/Image DVD)
Picture:
C Sound: C Extras: D Film: C
Douglas
Elford-Argent's Aberration (2013), which is being released by
Image Entertainment on DVD, is trying to bill itself as a
supernatural thriller, when in reality feels like an outright
thriller that combines Scream with The Sixth Sense (and
even a little Columbine thrown in; we've seen too much of this
before), which for some might be a very watchable film, but not
myself. The story focuses on Christy Dawson (Gwendolyn Garver, who
is also the screenwriter) An everyday typical high school girl who is
caught between two worlds, that of being a normal teenager and the
scary visions she has that were passed down from her deceased father,
without trying to sound redundant "She Sees Dead People"!!.
Christy
is being visited by a ghost boy in her sleep that she also
hallucinates seeing randomly when she's alone in between her daily
life. The boy with his dead eyes (without Tom Savini's help) warns
her that people around her are going to die. She slowly sees this
unravel when her school friends start to mysteriously have freak
accidents. She decides the only way of survival and her own guilt is
to turn into Nancy Drew for figuring out who is the potential killer
in her small community. Kyle (Kristian Capelik) a guy on the hockey
team that all Christy's friends have turned against has a crush on
her (almost to being stalkerish) ends up helping her get to the
truth!
The
story is decent in a guilty pleasure kinda way if you like this type
of genre, but the acting and bad dialogue brings down the plot to the
point that it's so cheesy, it's good. The violent scenes are
actually LOL to watch and I’m someone who has issues with such
scenes. This was originally titled Afterthought in 2006 and
finally released this year under its new title, but it is a wreck
either way and hard to tell if they intended this to be funny or not.
There are no extras.
The
anamorphically enhanced 2.35 X 1 picture quality also brings down the
film with its generic HD shooting. If it had a higher budget the
film would be more edge of your seat. The lossy Dolby Digital 5.1
sound quality being weak just adds to all the quirks of the film!
-
Howard Saul
