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Summary: 6 college students have decided to go camping and have a little fun in the woods. However when they get back home, they soon realize not all is well. They’re all being stalked one by one and dying just as quickly. Rieka hopes she can figure out what the reason is, before they all take their secret to their graves!
Overall: This is one of the movies that when you realize what the film’s length is...you just know they didn’t “finish” it. It’s too short and it’s quite easy to point out where they should have added more stuff but that would have fixed the holes in it. Sure I can figure out what the film intended but sometimes you can’t make giant leaps of logic...with the facts. Some quick hits: - The film basically surrounds this locker and the ghost/curse/spirit residing inside it. And yet our 6 main characters already begin to feel the effects and creepiness before the audience ever sees it. When we finally do see it...we see the 6 standing in front of it...and that’s all. Nothing especially creepy. No pissing off of ghosts. Nothing. The locker at the beginning serves more of a setting than the focus of the film. So...you read my summary above. The summary on the dvd is more like:
The horror film, The Locker, follows a group of college students who believe in an old legend that if they put a coin in a special locker they will find true love. Although they do this, they are instead haunted by mysterious events and soon they begin dying. Outside of mentioning “the legend” once...the film is more about what has been left in the locker and less about “true love.” If I wrote the real summary as it truly is, would anyone run to the video store to rent it? 6 college kids rent a locker to store their things while away on a camping trip. What they soon realize is that the locker has been cursed with the spirit of an unwanted newborn baby who was stuffed in there and left to die. Now the spirit of the child is growing and killing everyone in its way! Yeah...didn’t think so! Comparison: The Grudge meets Fast Times at Ridgemont High |