Legends
By Miguel Coyula • Jan 29th, 2005 • Category: HorrorWhen Michael is hit with a writer’s block, his sister and five friends take him out camping for the weekend; but what starts out like a fun trip ends in horror mayhem when Jason Voorhees shows up.
A solidly-assembled cast that delivers the right notes most of the time can’t save Legends from its recycled homage. Truth is that I’m not a fan of fan films since as a spectator I strive to find originality, especially if we are talking about independent films. But I know that fan films are common and that they have a following, and it is fine if you just want to make a movie to show to your friends.
Aside from the fact that I don’t even like the original source of inspiration, what bothers me here is that there are production values, good performances and effective special effects wasted on a lame script resulting in a predictable movie. What new stories can you about Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger? If there is something left to say it is certainly not here.
Everything is framed decently if not lit properly sometimes (but the powerful Panasonic DVX 100 makes almost anything acceptable), the pacing is efficient, and the directing is correct. But despite the obvious effort the story, which is the backbone of a horror film, fails in too many common places resulting in a very bland movie. We’ve seen it all before, so I can only recommend it to hardcore fans of Freddy and Jason. The DVD is nicely packaged and contains many extras.
Two Stars.
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Miguel Coyula is the director of the $2,000 sci-fi epic Red Cockroaches. His next project is Memorias del Desarrollo, a follow-up to the Cuban classic Memorias del Subdesarrollo (1968), based on the novel by Cuban writer Edmundo Desnoes
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