Don't Look Up

When an American horror director starts to receive visions of an unfinished 1920s Romanian film makers work he sets out to re-create the lost masterpiece and hopefully resurrect his stalled career.

Channeling the spirit of Bela Ort, who is played by Eli Roth in the briefest of cameos, and convincing a small crew to re-open a long abandoned film studio when a series of bizarre consequences begin to fall on the movie set as the spirit of a gypsy curse is reawakened. Which is just as well as no one films anything beyond one take, the crew take to running around smashing cars or knifing each other and there is a lot of howling and flies buzzing about and a bizarre Romanian location scout with the worst accent since Cate Blanchett tried to be Ukranian in the fourth Indiana Jones movie. And there's some stuff about and old guy hanging around with a baby growing in his neck tumour.

When a horror movie carries the name of respected Asian horror directors like Fruit Chan and Hideo Nakata you would be expected to be treated to something unexpected and probably actually scary. Instead DON'T LOOK UP is such a disaster it adds competence to any Uwe Boll film you may have seen. Horrendous acting turns, a disjointed "plot" and a couple of set pieces cribbed from Nakata's original RING and even a few from the TOMIE movie discredit any horror movie honour these two may have gained.

DON'T LOOK UP should be renamed Don't Look At All and is hilariously bad in the level of the equally inept GIALLO.

Flaccid, floppy and inert.