13 Ghosts has a one very creepy scene and some great sets, but is in the main just incredibly assaulting. This movie beats you up with unpleasant sights and sounds, emphasis on the sounds. It is really truly unbelievably loud.
Not a good date film, I would think. I was tired coming out of the theater. The movie's a bit of an ordeal.
The promises of nudity in the commercials are misleading- it's naked bloody dead people. It is not a sexy film. It is not tittilating. Or, at least, if you think otherwise please stay the hell away from me.
The black woman does a credible job in the Black Person Role standard in these movies, with appropriately sassy exclamations of "oh, hell no" and "lord, I'm surrounded by crazy white people" and all the rest. The big breasted naked dead chick does a credible job of having big breasts. The sound guy does a bang up job at making everything really really fucking loud.
Not a fun scary movie, even in the diminished expectations realm of gorefests, but ocassionally effective. There were a few good ideas buried way down in there. But the movie is certainly no Evil Dead II. It has all the excess without any of the goofy cheerfulness.
