Wednesday 1 October 2014

Movie Review: Dementia - Beautifully Mounted But Provides No Solid Scares

“DEMENTIA” avoids MLT’s kind of bloody gore with its more quiet version of a ghost story. We really pray it makes lots of money for the sake of Ate Guy and Direk Perci Intalan, but sadly, when we watched it at Trinoma on the first day of its screening, there were only a handful of us moviegoers. The best thing about “Dementia” is the location, the beautiful islands of Batanes captured in all its glory by the superb cinematography. But this is not new since Batanes has been explored before in “Hihintayin Kita sa Langit”, and the Adolf Alix movies “Kadin” and “Batanes”. Often told with splendid production and technical values, but at a very leisurely pace that dwells so much on the gloomy, eerie atmosphere of the place, the movie has so much moody ‘boringga’ factor. Horror films can be told in an unhurried pace without being tedious and lethargic. The best example for us is Jack Clayton’s “The Innocents”, an adaptation of Henry James’ “The Turn of the Screw”, about a governess (beautifully played by Deborah Kerr) trying to save two haunted children. A psychological enigma, it takes its time in telling the ambiguous story as you can’t tell whether the story is really happening or it’s all just in the unbalanced mind of the governess, but the overall effect is cumulative, which doesn’t happen in “Dementia”. Like other scare flicks, “Dementia” merely resorts to its own share of cheap jump scares capitalizing on loud noise and jarring music.

By Mario Bautista: Showbiz Portal

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Wednesday 1 October 2014

Movie Review: Dementia - Beautifully Mounted But Provides No Solid Scares

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