October 31, 2010

Dominique Is Dead

part 14 of the Bad Horror Marathon (just one more to go!)



Data
Title: Dominique
Year: 1978
Length: 95 minutes
Director: Michael Anderson
Writer: Edward & Valerie Abraham, based on a novel by Harold Lawlor
Starring: Cliff Robertson, Jean Simmons, Jenny Agutter, Simon Ward
Music: David Whitaker

My reaction
Synopsis: a woman driven to suicide haunts her scheming husband
How I saw it: on video, today (have on DVD)
Concept: Bad.
Story: Bad.
Characters: Terrible.
Dialog: Bad.
Pacing: Terrible.
Cinematography: Terrible.
Special effects/design: Bad.
Acting: Bad.
Music: Indifferent.
Subjective Rating: 2/10 (Terrible). Every now and then somebody will turn on a light switch; these are the most exciting moments in the movie, as they sometimes come with hints at what the vague sense of movement in the darkness that we've been watching for the last five minutes was all about.
Objective Rating: 0.7/4 (Very bad).

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