Jack Ketchum’s The Lost (Anchor Bay/Starz)
Picture:
C+ Sound: C+ Extras: D Feature: D
Though
Anchor Bay is anxious for whatever reason to set up Jack Ketchum as some horror
master or the like, his material so far has been nothing but tired, derivative
and forgettable. In the case, you know
you’re in trouble when the box is boasting stars of unnecessary remakes of
classics like Halloween (poor,
wasted Dee Wallace Stone, who fared better in The Howling, but the is too complex a film to list we guess) and Black Christmas (Katie Cassidy wasted
again) as once again, drugs, sex and stupidity lead to a killing spree.
If it was
like that in small towns in real life, they’d all be empty beyond belief, but
then were would this genre go? This
leads to more Torture Porn and the whole affair implodes early on. Chris Svertson adapted, produced and directed
this mess, but you would be better off making sure this is ‘lost’ from your
must-see list.
The
anamorphically enhanced 2.35 X 1 image is soft throughout, has motion blur and
is a weak presentation overall. The
Dolby Digital 5.1 mix is weak, obviously not created to utilize multi-channel
and some audio sounds fuller in the Dolby 2.0 Stereo option. Extras include outtakes, storyboard sequence,
audition footage and a commentary by Ketchum and Monica O’Rourke. Guess Svertson was too busy working on his
next “great” work.
- Nicholas Sheffo
