Bloody Mary (2006)

Powerful

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

I was expecting a much worse film when I sat down to watch it. I figured the scene at the beginning would be the best scene as a naked girl wanders through some tunnels and finds a mirror. It was, but the rest of the film holds up pretty good considering the low budget. However, it prevented itself from being a good movie by setting up a few things that are never resolved leaving one to wander just where were they going with it. I do not know if it was the film makers intent to create a sequel, but the way it ended made me not care for the movie as much as I would have, had they simply tied up a few loose ends.The story has a bevy of nurse who have been playing something they called the mirror game. What is the reason for them playing this game, you ask? I have no idea...one of the unresolved issues. I just know the main nurse and all around bad girl is obsessed with this game and it's changing her body. No word on why it is doing these things or what she is getting out of it. Well a girl is taken and killed by Mary and soon the victim's sister is there to try and find her sister who at the start is presumed missing. It all ties back to the psychiatric institution her sister and the other nurses work at. It may also have something to do with one of the doctors and a patient seems to be really deep in it...once again though there is nothing in the end that tells you why the doctor is doing what he is doing or what the relationship between Mary and the one patient is. They seemed to want to set up a lot of stuff, but they fail to deliver a payoff. Heck, I am not even sure why Mary was doing her thing.So the film was going pretty good, but the ending kind of derailed this film from being an okay horror film, to a not good and not bad one. There is some nice nudity, the acting is not great, but considering there are no actors in this one it is not horrid either. It moved at a nice pace and at times it had good atmosphere. I just wish they would have revealed some stuff at the end rather than revealing virtually nothing at the end!

This movie was awful; It wasn't just plain stupid. It felt like the director just forgot to tell his own story. Who is the locked-up guy with all the face-sores who goes to Mary's "den" at the end? Mary's mediary or what? Did he have something to do with patient Mary's time in the hospital years before? Why were the nurses even working for or worshipping Mary? For what? Why did the good doctor suddenly become all weird and attack the cop? The eyeballs Mary brought to him to put in his unlocked, open locker? What was the point of that stupidness? If the director had at least said they were doing it for eternal beauty or something and said something about the face-sore guy, I'd upgrade this movie to STUPID instead of AWFUL, CONFUSING, and MISSING three quarters of the plot. I'll never get these two hours of my life back :(

This movie, by no means is a gem for it's acting talent, however some of that is due to poor writing. I mean, let's be honest, it's hard to be convincing and real when the script you're working with isn't real. But the story is fantastic! It's loosely based in fiction enough that the supernatural aspects of the film flow without a hitch. The exposition is well paced so that there is mystery, back story, and the joy of all those puzzle pieces falling together. The production aspect is rockin'. That mirror looks great, and it's creepy but real. Looking at that set, I could believe that that actually exists. I have to say all in all that this movie rocks! This is one of those horror films thats original, and fun. Well made for something independent, and it is fun to watch... grab a bowl of pop corn, and some licorice and plenty of soda and enjoy. Just take it with a grain of salt... and get ready to laugh some :-p

By the summary quote I mean that this film is not a stellar piece of cinema, but merely serviceable. Much like Candyman, if a person stands in front of a mirror and utters the name of Bloody Mary - actually saying "I believe in Bloody Mary" - a number of times, then the titled hag makes her appearance. Rather then a man with a hook for a hand, Bloody Mary is ten times scarier than Tony Todd - without the deep, hollow voice, mind you.Director Richard Valentine obviously has a sense for frights, as he uses lighting and creepy makeup effects to administer fear. Bloody Mary was scary throughout, much creepier than Candyman, and Valentine is the person to laud for this.The story centers on an asylum where a beautiful nameless woman (Bloody Mary) was beaten and escaped from several decades ago. In the present time, a group of nurses play the game of Bloody Mary with one becoming obsessed with the charade while the others girls grow weary. When Jessica Lous is attacked by Bloody Mary and subsequently labeled as missing, her sister Kim Tyler begins her own investigation.VIOLENCE: $$$ (There is plenty of violence in this film, but not of the gratuitous variety. Bloody Mary has a thing for gouging out a person's eyes, and Valentine shows us this on several occasions - although not on par with the terrible and tasteless stuff of Eli Roth).NUDITY: $$$$ (Although the gore isn't of the gratuitous variety, the nudity sure is. When a girl calls on Bloody Mary in the mirror, she must be stark naked in the process. This plot detail allows the viewer looks at Jessica Lous and Danni Hamilton. Actress/producer Kim Tyler steps out of a shower for no other reason but for a shot of breasts. There is even a backside shot of a male artist who gets killed by Bloody Mary, while he paints in the buff).STORY: $$ (The weakest part of this film is the story. The way the asylum is operated was handled quite weakly by Valentine. The dialogue wasn't very good either and the character building wasn't very strong. Valentine failed to create a character that we could pull for, as Kim Tyler was hard to like).ACTING: $$ (Not very strong either. Valentine's direction is the saving grace to this film, but Danni Hamilton shows promise as an up and coming actress. She clearly outshines the rest of the cast with her demented-deceiving character. The two actor/producers, Kim Tyler and Matt Borlenghi, aren't that great of thespians. Jessica Lous did an adequate job as the naive little sister of Kim Tyler's character, but she was the first to die at the hands of Bloody Mary).