“I am probably the only woman in this entire industry that is excited to play characters that are actually my age and that are not like 22-years-olds who are busy being young and hot and that’s kind of it,’’ she says on the phone from LA. The True Blood star, who was 11 when she won an Oscar for her supporting performance in The Piano, has been playing characters that are significantly younger than herself for most of her career.
This DVD comes with extras including a feature-length commentary from the director in which he apologises at length for bringing in his famous and talented sister just to trick viewers into coming to see his m… oh.NOW that she and telepathic waitress Sookie Sackhouse have finally parted ways, Anna Paquin is ready to act her age.
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Though the performances are all impressive – Blanchard spends much of the movie either tied up in a closet or mutely following the orders of her captors and yet still manages to be compelling, and Geraghty comes across as steely and terrifying – the plot, direction, script, and effects (especially the jammy blood) do all they can to detract from their work. It’s immensely boring to watch, and otherwise completely undemanding of the viewer’s intellect. Writer-director Andrew Paquin’s answer is: unimaginative bloody killing, random sketchy characterizations, a few off-kilter lessons in criminal psychology, a little brother-on-sister action, and some borderline torture porn. That’s some pretty terrifying stuff, right? The problem is: where to go from here? He is hiding in the basement, waiting, plotting, and preparing.
However, one of the people who comes in to see the place never leaves. They hold an “open house”, and show the place to all sorts of folks who wander in off the street (as one does). A young couple (Blanchard and Moyer) are in the midst of a break-up, and are trying to sell the marital home. Like so many failed horror flicks before it, Open House begins with a spooky premise, and then squanders every ounce of creativity that might have been born of it. Though not the movie’s fault – this is surely a marketing decision made by the folks at Stone Brook Entertainment – it still causes one to feel cheated, duped, annoyed, and disappointed, which is not a good mood to be in when watching the rest of this junkpile.īecause, apart from the unfortunate casting and absurdly misleading advertising, the movie stinks. And yet, there she is on the DVD cover, standing in front of the actual lead actors in the film. Paquin, hilariously, has two lines before being killed offscreen. While Blanchard and Helfer offer typically strong performances with the weak material they have to work with, Paquin and her real-life husband Moyer are here mostly, one is left to assume, so that they can be advertised as its stars. This lazy, confusing, and generally dull splatterfest was directed by none other than Anna Paquin’s brother, and it seems that he called in a few favours. Since it appears to star such cult draws as Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer ( True Blood), Rachel Blanchard ( Peep Show), Brian Geraghty ( The Hurt Locker), and Tricia Helfer ( Battlestar Gallactica), I, for one, was intrigued to see what this was all about. Or at least, that’s how it appears when you pick it up off the shelf at the good old Video Store. For a straight-to-DVD movie few have ever heard of, this thing sure boasts a lot of talent.
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