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ACTOR
Joe AbsolomTom BellLara BelmontMelanie Gutteridge
DIRECTOR
Marcus Adams
SYNOPSICS
Long Time Dead (2002) is a English movie. Marcus Adams has directed this movie. Joe Absolom,Tom Bell,Lara Belmont,Melanie Gutteridge are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2002. Long Time Dead (2002) is considered one of the best Horror,Thriller movie in India and around the world.
A group of British students enbark on summoning spirits on a Ouija board after a night of clubbing. But someone breaks the link before they have finished and now a demon is trapped in their world and the only way to banish it, is for all the people who summoned it to die.
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Long Time Dead (2002) Reviews
English yet Hollywood-like horror
If you liked Final Destination and horror movies because of the thrills and not the gore, you'll enjoy this one. Sometimes a lot of blood and people get killed (slaughtered sometimes), but many excitement all along. The first 10 minutes with loud music are a bore, but then the story takes off. Supernatural with an open end that could have been better.
Competent "scare scenes", but overall it's a mess
A random group of young adults who are some combination of roommates/friends takes time out from their busy partying schedule to play with an improvised Ouija board, when they accidentally call forth a djinn who tells them that they will all die. Long Time Dead is quite a mess, made all the more frustrating by occasional flashes of competence. It couldn't have helped that that a veritable army of writers--seven credited in all--worked on the story and script, including director Marcus Adams. After a brief prologue set in the late 1970s in Morocco which was far more promising than most of the film proper, we begin meeting our bloated cast of heroes. There are eight of them, maybe all living in the same building or apartment, except for Lucy (Marsha Thomason), who appears to be living on a boat near the building. If I sound unsure, it's because Adams is not able to clearly establish the characters, their relationships to one another, or the relationships of one location to another. It doesn't help that a few of the five males look alike, and they all dress alike. Neither does it help that as the film progresses, various characters arbitrarily appear and disappear for random lengths of time. That fact is indicative of the pacing problems that plague the film on many levels. It's not often very clear why any characters are doing whatever they happen to be doing at a given moment. Most of the plot seems like an excuse to put characters in very stereotypical horror/thriller scenarios, where they slowly walk around an environment frightened, becoming startled in various ways until finally some unseen thing kills them. These scenes are often competent, and occasionally they're good, but in the context of the film, they have little dramatic impact. Much of Long Time Dead plays more like a sample reel of "scare scenes"; it has little coherency as a story. A big problem is that the chief villain is never clearly shown, explained or given any rules to follow. For most of the film, the villain is invisible. Invisible villains are usually a problem, and often indicate deficiencies in budget and/or imagination. Oddly, by the end, there is a concrete villain and the film has devolved into a fairly stock thriller, where we have to guess whom the possessed cast member is. Although the story has promise, and the ending is somewhat of an improvement, even though it never rises above the cliché, Long Time Dead is too burdened with severe flaws in direction, cinematography (the film is frequently far too dark) and performances to merit a recommendation. I ended up granting a 4 (equivalent to a "high F" letter grade) because of the adequacy of some of the "scare" and death scenes, the good ideas in the backstory, and the slightly more engaging climax. The film would have been much better if the prologue and the subsequent events with Becker and the one character's father who ended up in a mental institution had been the focus, but alas, it was not to be. Let's hope Adams fares better the next time around.
Underrated
I am surprised at the mixed views on this film. Reading the back cover I knew it was a gamble but it paid off. I watched it without any hype or recommendation, and thought it was a pretty good film. Someone rated it 2/10. Has this person seem some of the rubbish horror films in the video store. I thought the acting was very good. A welcome relief from some of the American garbage. 7/10
Good back to basics British horror
It was an impulse decision, I wanted a scary movie and I just grabbed this from the shelf and I am glad I did. Its been a long time since I have seen a low budget British film that I have enjoyed and this came as a pleasant surprise, it is well filmed but doesn't go down the route of trying to be too clever. It just shows you what you need to see, avoiding most of the gruesome events and instead showing you the result. It entertains, suggests and of course scares. If don't have the preconception that you are going to watch an extremely clever horror and are just looking for a back to basics horror then you should enjoy this.
A Decent British Horror Movie!
A group of friends are out partying one night, when they decide to try out an Oujia board and contact some spirits. Whilst doing it, they do get in contact with someone, a demon who is back from the dead and has gotten into there world. The only way for the demon to go back to where it came from is if he kills whole group friends who let him out in the first place. A strange old man who happens to be the landlord of there house claims that one of them has the demon inside of them, but no one believes him. It is true though...... Long Time Dead a good British horror/thriller movie, with some creepy moments in it, like the flashback scenes. There are also some little twists along the way as well. The acting from everyone is good too. If you enjoy movies like this, then I'm sure you will enjoy Long Time Dead. I give Long Time Dead a 8-9/10.