Necropath
92 Minutes, Not Rated
Written and Directed by Joshua Reale
Synopsis:
A mysterious virus, plague, pharmaceutical drug conspiracy erupts over a city causing a pandemic. In the midst of the chaos, a mentally deranged maniac seeks to fulfill continuous addiction and vengeful murder, despite the imminent demise of society happening around him. The story leads to a family being destroyed leaving an abandoned little girl to save her baby sister.
Necropath was made of 3 short films compiled into a full length grindhouse/indie style film. It was shot with limited budget, being extremely resourceful utilizing the director’s Halloween attraction location called Cayo Industrial, which was inside a massive dilapidated warehouse. Each Necropath short had been submitted to festivals winning various awards such as two Best Horror Film Awards, Best Makeup FX, Best Director, Best Death Scene, and Audience Choice Award.
I understand that it is an experimental film in many ways, and I applaud the director for working at developing something that is his; I truly do.
But it’s his, not mine, clearly.
Very rarely (very rarely…) do I say this about a movie: I couldn’t finish it.
And it’s not that I couldn’t finish it in an “it’s-so-disturbing-I-was-completely-unnerved” kind of way.
Nope.
I just couldn’t finish it.
I put in an hour of the run time, and just. Didn’t. Care.
And, just to be clear, this isn’t a bias against indie/small-budget films. You already know this if you’re a regular here at VSMP.
I watched Clownado in it’s entirety (it still hurts), which is about as small-budget as you can get, BTW, and I’ve never been able to finish Thirteen Ghosts, which was a pretty big deal back in the day.
Necropath just didn’t have anything that made me want to finish it. There was not compelling story, useless characters, and pointless killing… again, and again… and again.
It was, for me, ultimately a film that had nothing and meant nothing.
I hope those reading this can understand how I feel writing these words; I have long bemoaned the seemingly accelerating race to the bottom by critics to savage a film in the worst possible terms, simply to garner eyeballs.
That sucks. Instead, I try to find something in every film I can complement, some positive I can focus on.
Necropath gives me nothing.
Obviously, this opinion means little in the vast universe of movie criticism, but I have to share it because, well, it’s kind of the point of doing this.
If I don’t, it’s almost as bad as not giving a film a shot in the first place, or simply running a film down just to run it down.
That’s not what we’re about here at VSMP. We’re just not.
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