Review: Extremity (2018)
By William Pattison
For Horror Bob’s Blog
This time I got a film about an extremely haunt…
Allison, a young woman with a severely troubled past who
signs up for an extreme haunt called Perdition. She believes that putting
herself through Perdition's nightmarish trials will help her exorcise her
internal traumas, but has no way of knowing just how shocking her ordeal will
be-or what dark secrets buried in her psyche will emerge.
I had expected to really enjoy this film, after all I’ve
seen films like The Houses October Built and a couple of other films about
extreme haunts.
Unfortunately, this film royally disappointed me. It
amusingly lacked the extreme haunted house feel of the other films and it
seemed the creator mistakened extreme extreme haunts for S&M and torture
which is not the same. Also, they ruined the members of the supposed haunt and
exposed who they are, including the head man of the haunt. Not only does he
pull off his mask, we end up finding out he is a family man and his haunt is
failing. I royally hated this. The other haunt films left the cast members of
the haunts unknown and left them scary. This film made the cast a bunch of
losers and the head man the biggest loser. No, no, no, fail. Then they do the
ridiculous thing of having Mr Loser haunt guy somehow find the main character’s
abusive and molesting father and have him confront her. After that bullshit,
which came after all the earlier stuff. I just shook my head. Give me a break.
This film. Was a complete mess. It started out ok and then after the first act
it tanked and kept tanking. I would have happily accepted the ending of it
wasn’t for way they handled two thirds
of this film.
This is definitely a non- recommendation. If you want a good
extreme haunt film check out The Houses that October Built, it is the best of
this subgenre.
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