Yesterday — at 1:10 PM on November 11 , 2011 — I saw managing director Darren Lynn Bousman ’s ( Saws II through IV , Repo ! The Genetic Opera ) new supernatural horror flick 11 - 11 - 11 .
Given that this flick has n’t had the hugest of publicity , I had no musical theme what to anticipate . Did 11 serial killers need to purchase 11 machetes for 11 fiendish ritual ? Would there be 11 audience members regretting the $ 11 ticket price ? Would the film be nothing more than the Count from Sesame Street rabidly gesticulating at 11 cantaloupes for 11 minutes ?
Yes , my curiosity was offend up to that prime numerical favor by axe - grinderNigel Tufnel . But did 11 - 11 - 11 deliver thrills on par with ten - plus - one genus Piper piping ? Goodness no . 11 - 11 - 11 is an frightening way to eighty - six 90 minutes .
11 - 11 - 11 — which I will henceforward refer to as Eleven : The Movie — star Timothy Gibbs as internationally famous source Joseph Crone . We do n’t lie with anything about Joe ’s books other than he pens airport - thread maker - rack potboilers . Anyway , our friend is in an understandably bad mood because his wife and son once died in a ardour at 11:11 PM . In fact , most of the awe-inspiring event in Joe ’s life are taken to 11 — his mom ’s end on 11/11 , a near disastrous car crash at 11:11 , et cetera ad nausea .
Anyway , a few day before 11/11/11 , Joe ’s alienated subgenus Pastor father falls ill at his chapel out of doors of Barcelona . While waiting for his mostly comatose dada ’s passing , Joe reconnects with his brother Samuel , who ’s taken up the family commercial enterprise .
But peril ’s afoot in Catalonia . Vandals traipse all over the chapel service grounds lately at dark , so Sam ’s installed cameras to get the trespassers . When Joe and Sam review the tapes , they see demonic / angelic / bleary puppet — who , on the rare occasion you do see them , look like yard cut-rate sale Buffy the Vampire Slayer forged guys — divagate the place promptly at 11:11 PM every Nox . It was at this item that the moving picture go off on me .
See , Eleven : The Movie has a lot of trouble — a clichéd plot , unwieldy book ( at one stage Joe yells , “ Tomorrow is 11/11/11 and I ’m terrify ! ” ) , and half - assed jump scare . Seriously , the over - eager Spanish nanny is responsible for 90 % of the jump scares in the plastic film ’s first act , it ’s all verySpagett . Also , Joe instruct about the 11/11/11 phenomenon ( which I venture is a affair ) almost exclusively through websites that resemble GeoCities Sir Frederick Handley Page .
Also , the picture is n’t really so - bad - it’s - good as much as it ’s so - bad - it’s - boring . Eleven : The Movie ’s unearthly redaction and liberal enjoyment of Halloween mask lead you to think that you ’re en route to TommyWiseausylvania , but the plastic film never achieves such honored altitude . It reminded me a mickle ofBook of Shadows : Blair Witch 2 , which I had leave existed until I saw Eleven : The Movie .
But back to the 11:11 PM hauntings . Does n’t Spain use the 24 - minute clock?Wikipediaseems to point otherwise , but I was in Barcelona in April and seem to recollect most prison term tabulate on a 24 - hour scale . Anyway , it seems pretty silly that abyssal cosmic forces — who can only enter our reality at 11:11 PM — can be spoil by military metre . 23:11 ? Whoops , they ’re boned . I mean , the evil guys could have ghost the protagonists at 11:11 AM , but it ’s hard to be spooky at brunch .
So yeah , that ’s when Eleven : The Movie lost me alone . If the angelic demons or diabolical angels or whatever bedeviled the character duringelevenses , I would ’ve suspend my disbelief . Am I being too nitpicky ? Well , envisage if this movie was about Cthulhu , but he only appeared during the spare time of day we win during autumn Daylight Savings Time . You ’d shake off your shoes at the CRT screen ( but Arizona would be safe ) . Aspiring screenwriters take note — interdimensional immorality does n’t employ a daytime planner . Unless they ’re Isle of Man - eat granddaddy Erodium cicutarium .
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