Black Dahlia (2006) (V)

Calificación de los usuarios:

1.4/10   

Director:

Ulli Lommel

Escritores:

Jeff Frentzen (story)
Ulli Lommel (story)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

10 octubre 2006 (USA)

Género:

Crimen

Plot:

Three psychopaths go on a killing spree, recreating the Black Dahlia murder.

Plot Keywords:

Black Dahlia | Killer | Murder | 1940s | Los Angeles California

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Worthless Ripoff

Reparto

Elissa Dowling	...	Kate
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Ross Atwater
Robert Beetley
Christian Behm	...	Det. Christian
Sutton Christopher	...	Rick
Rachael Devlin
Patrick Faucette	...	Det. Lovelle
Jeff Frentzen		(as Curtis Grann)
Johnny Holiday	...	Producer McCoon
Erica Kruze
Phil Lander
Jana L. Laurin	...	4th Victim
Crystal Nelson	...	3rd Victim
Lorielle New	...	Brianne
Danielle Petty	...	Black Dahlia (as Ivy Elfstrom)
Jack Quinn
Nola Roeper	...	Capt. Raine
Jed Rowen
Scott Struna
Negiat Turner
Bud Watson	...	Drug Lord
Desiree White

Duración:

81 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.78 : 1

Clasificación:

USA:Not Rated | USA:R | Australia:R | Singapore:R21 | Finland:K-18 | UK:18

Locaciones de Filmación:

Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Compañía:

The Shadow Factory Inc.

Conexiones de Película:

References Ms. Pac-Man (1981) (VG)

Worthless Ripoff

It's pretty obvious that Lionsgate only released Ulli Lommel's "Black Dahlia" so that they could cash in on Brian De Palma's "The Black Dahlia" (much like other recent sound alike ripoffs "War of the Planets", "When a Killer Calls", and "Flight 93"). Like many of those, this hit DVD before the big movie it imitates in the preemptive rip-off tradition started by Roger Corman. In short, people are supposed to see this DVD on the shelf and mistake it for the De Palma movie. Working at a video store I have encountered the intentional confusion these ripoffs create time and time again.

Anyway, let's talk about the movie already. Rather than re-telling the story of the actual Black Dahlia murder there is simply a brief prologue about it complete with a black and white filter and fake film grain over what is obviously low grade video footage. Then the movie drops us in LA of the 21st century (now) where two plain clothes cops make a drug bust. These are supposed to be our heroes. Then we meet the Satan worshiping killers who lure girls to auditions to play the Black Dahlia and then get murdered. In between looking at bodies and drinking with his partner, the younger drug cop, the rookie whose name I can't remember, looks up the original 40s murder online and dreams about it. That's pretty much it.

The killers kill in very long slow boring scenes before leaving body parts for the police. The police investigate, the killers kill some more ad infinitum. The acting sucks all around. All the murder scenes are very slow and boring and each killing is nearly identical the the last. There's also a lot of unnecessary after effects like rewinding and white flashes. Shots of a graveyard and the 40s reenactment are cut into weird places too. Footage is re-used so often I got to thinking they probably only shot an hour of video before beefing it up to 80 minutes in the editing room (and the credits are already rolling by 78 minutes).

Apart from those confused into thinking it's something else, who is this movie really for? It's not for mystery fans because everything is spelled out to the point where you wonder why the police haven't solved it. It's not for action fans because the action is rare and pathetic. It could only be for very patient low-brow perverts and ultra-low-brow gore hounds, and those people could easily find better somewhere else. I've been renting straight to video crap all year and this is the worst movie I've found so far. For your own sake, stay far away.