Friday, November 5, 2010

The Crypt (2009)

A group of college age criminals head into the underground Depression era crypts as there are rumors that the corpses were buried with their jewelry. I am unable to take any of them seriously since the girls all wear short shorts and tank tops. Good planning there since you're going underground and there are crawl spaces.

The group wears head lamps and use flashlights even though the underground corridors have lights on the walls and the crawl spaces have lights. It is only when they get further into the tunnels that they need their own lights. One girls flashlight goes out at an inopportune time and she has to hit it repeatedly it to make it work. Gee, maybe they should have brought extra batteries in the huge backpacks they're carrying.

As the group takes jewelry from the crypts, the ghosts of the dead decide they want their property back. At first some of the group think they are imagining things, but eventually they all figure out something is with them in the corridors. So they decide to find a way to escape. Per todays most prolific movie cliche, they can not get any cell phone reception.

There is a continuity error when two girls leave their backpacks behind as they escape. After crawling through the door and starting up the ladder, they both have backpacks again. Then once they get to the top of the ladder, the backpacks are gone.

The strangest thing about this film is a random scene near the beginning in which the girls steal a car in order to meet up with the others. One of the girls brings her younger brother Bobby along. As the group hot wires the car, the owner comes running out and shoots at them. They peel out, laughing because they escaped unharmed. Then they notice that Bobby has been shot in the head. Oh no! The mood turns somber and everyone crys.

Cut to the meeting spot, the girls get out of the car, Bobbys gone and he's never mentioned again. What the hell...??!! So they still met up to discuss the robbery after the kid got killed? I'm not sure why the kid wasn't cut from the final edit as its confusing and makes no sense.

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