[The Seamstress]
Plot:The Seamstress was brought into being by the desperate curse of an innocent woman being tortured to death by a vigilante mob. Voracious for blood, the hideously mutilated specter hunts a small group of friends who become trapped on the island where she died. The friends, led by Allie, are searching for Allie's missing father. As Allie comes to understand that he was one of the vigilantes, her friends begin to die gruesome horrific deaths on the point of The Seamstress' needle. When the last two surviving vigilantes arrive, locked in their own dance of death and revenge, Allie must either preserve her own innocence or be corrupted by vengeance herself.

Cast:Lance Henriksen, Kailin See, David Kopp, James Kirk, Lara Gilchrist, Sarah Mutch, Richard Stroh, Kevin McNulty, David Nykl, Andee Frizzell, Aaron Pearl, Jennifer Copping, Norman Misura.

My Thoughts:Look out, she's coming!

Review:"The Seamstress" was intended to be a scary supernatural horror tale about a woman done wrong, much like "Darkness Falls", and "The Blairwitch Project". Although like those movies, it fails in being even remotely scary. But unlike those movies, I honestly can't pinpoint a single worthy second of this film. The whole thing was like a singular cornflake in a bowl full of milk....a pointless waste.

Vigilante justice strikes again, as a woman is murdered by a vigilante mob, and her angry spirit returns as The Seamstress. A young girl named Allie's, father, is the latest victim of the spectre...or so it seems. Allie now returns to her home town looking for answers on her dad's mysterious death. But to her chagrin, she only finds people who aren't willing to talk, and others who are confrontational and angry about ehr line of questioning.

Thus, she decides to seek out answers for herself. Aided by her friends, in a search which leads them to a nearby island. Now we all know that when young people come upon an island, death and destruction are sure to follow. But this movie can't even get that part of the equation right. It lolligags along not really getting much of anything done, and just when the movie started on a modestly likeable note, with the build up of this big mystery, it flames out 15 minutes in because somebody thought it would be a good idea to inject High School BS into the characters dialogue.

Stuff like..."why didn't you ever ask me out?", and even one male character caught masturbating in the open woods, and is surprised by one of his female companions in an embarassing moment. Yeah, when stuff like this is the highlight of the films non-homicidal moments, you know you're in for a long ass 82 minutes. The Seamstress herself doesn't even make much of an appearance in this movie. I expected this film to be what it was advertised as.

A stalk-n-slash pic with a woman with needles for fingers, killing off teens. Instead, what I got was a movie with idiotic teens, no real payoff, hardly any gore to speak of, badly structured chase and scare sequences, and a subplot/twist which mimics "Cherry Falls" whole "sins of the father" scenario. I for one am tired of films where someone has to die for the sins of the parent or parents. It worked well with "Scream" because the talent was there to make it work, both on the acting and writing side of things.

It worked with "Cherry Falls" because the basis was new and fresh. This movie, just stumbles around not knowing what the hell it wants to do. Does it wanna go supernatural? Or human-inspired slasher? Or does it wanna blend all three with some hokey comedy? It just doesn't seem to know. Hell, I don't know either....I don't know, why I even expected this movie to be half way decent. But being the ever-so-shining optimist, I decided to have a little faith.

But in a nutshell, this movie blew. It brought nothing new to the table, and went too much by the numbers. The film is so poorly structured script wise that the seamstress, seen on the DVD art, and mentioned in the plotline, might as well have just taken off her needles, and went home. The movie didn't really need her that much to be honest. That's how little her presence is felt in thie film. And with a movie titled "The Seamstress", we expect her to dominate and be the focal point of the film.

I doubt anyone would've liked "Child's Play" if Chucky made his first appearance in the final 15 minutes of the film, or "Nightmare On Elm Street" if Freddy had made his first appearance in the final 20. "The Seamstress" is a waste of time, and needs to be sewn up inside the stomach of a dead pedophile so no one can ever see, hear, or speak of it again.

Positives:The opening ten minutes are satisfactory and offer hope for the film.

Negatives:The final 72 minutes which come after the first ten. Terrible dialogue, and a sorry ass story. The title character is also so underused it's sad.

Overall:Half a star out of four.





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