Dark Chamber/Under Surveillance (2008)

Summary: Justin is coming back home and gonna live with his father. His mom and ad split long ago and Justin sees his mom was as the problem. Coming back home, he meets and odd neighbor girl who soon ends up dead. He decides to investigate but nothing seems right because every suspect he has in mind, could have done it. Now he’ll have to weed out the red herrings to find the real killer and he won’t like what he found.           Overall: I think the film had a nice pre-filing plot and script. However what ended up on the final cut just didn’t perform well. Let’s take Kayla…our victim. She meets the guy…says a few words to him, same from he to her and she’s gone. Next scene, she’s calling his cell phone. Well…considering he never gave her his cell phone #, I’d be a bit suspicious. And soon enough he wants to distance himself from her because she’s psycho. Well duh! Anyway the film progresses with little cohesion between scenes and characters. You sorta get the idea but usually struggle after the film ends by having all sorts of unanswered questions. So what was the deal between Justin’s mom and dad again? And how come he hadn’t see his college roommate in how long? And where has Justin been? And why exactly was he coming back just now? And so was Kayla really bad or good? And folks…those are plot points. If you don’t answer them…then your film isn’t very good.           Comparison: Chronicle of the Raven meets Rosemary’s Baby

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