[The Deaths Ian Stone]
Plot:Deaths tells the story of an all-American guy who is murdered each day by horrifying pursuers, only to wake up in slightly different lives to experience the terror of being murdered again.

Cast:Mike Vogel, Christina Cole, Michael Feast, Jaime Murray, Andrew Buchan, Michael Dixon. .

My Thoughts:Quite a mess.

Review:"The Deaths Of ian Stone" follows a guy named Ian who has a normal life, a normal girlfriend, and a normal job. That is until he begins being pursued by wraith like creatures who hunt him down and kill him over and over again. Each time after he dies, he wakes up back to his normal life...only to be killed by these horrifying pursuers again a few hours later. Films like this fall into what I like to call the "huh?" category. Basically they take a story full of holes, no rational explanation whatsoever to resolve the main issue of the movie, and the mess is then turned into a feature film.

Watching this movie, I felt like it was all just a ploy to try and impress the viewer with flashy and quick imagery, all the while trying to see how many times they could get me to say "Whoa...that was freaky!" "The Deaths Of Ian" really runs along at the pace of a speeding train but there's just one problem...the movie has no brakes. It just goes on and on with this poor guy being hunted down by black-mist-cloud-like creatures who have scythes for hands and use human flesh to cloak themselves in public.

They keep chasing him and killing him, but for what? This is a question the movie just seems to forget to get around to answering. Ian, played by Mike Vogel is not the most interesting character either. He's this boring white-bread guy who doesn't really have a social life or any hobbies outside of boinking his semi-hot girlfriend and going to work. I couldn't help but think, maybe the creatures are after him just because he's such a boring ass and they want to add a little spice and pep to his life.

And nothing adds spice to ones life and gets the juices flowing like being chased down busy streets, and subways by otherworldly monsters who wanna kill you. This film also takes alot of weird twists and turns, particularly at the end where Ian wakes up in a weird hospital with weird people dressed in weird outfits. It's just another thing in a long line of things about this movie that make no sense whatsoever. I feel sorry for the people who saw this at After Dark, it must've felt like a real waste of money. It didn't surprise me that Brendan Hood wrote this film either.

Hood was responsible for writing the 2002 horror pic "They"...another movie about creatures that live in the dark hunting down unsuspecting people and dragging them off into their world. "Ian Stone" changes the rules around a bit however, there is no other world, and these creatures can come out in broad daylight as opposed to the night terrors of "They" which stayed in the dark. However, the gist of both movies is the same...mindfuck the viewer and offer no explanation whatsoever for anything. In the regard of villains who lurk in the shadows, you could look at "Ian Stone" as sort of a companion piece to "They"...but why would you want to?

"They"...atleast in my opinion was a good movie which while it left many unanswered questions, was still likeable in it's uniqueness and it left open alot of interesting theories at the end. "Ian Stone" however was just boring, tedious, and uninteresting all the way through. Even the large sense of dread, hopelessness, and fear that resignated in "They"...was absent and lacking in this pic. "The Deaths Of Ian Stone" offers up alot in it's premise, and in that regard...it's a whole lot of sometihng on paper, but a whole lot of nothing on screen.

Positives:Some good looking ladies, a few cool deaths.

Negatives:A story that runs in circles and goes nowhere really. An uninteresting lead character, and no real scares are present here.

Overall:Pretty bad movie.





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