Kelly (Kelly Kay) has two things on her mind; nightmares and a pending party at a secluded locale owned by her pal Garrett’s (Garrett Johnson). I’ll bet demons to diamonds those two ingredients will be mixed together right quick!
Ridin’ shotgun for the affair are Tatyana (Tatyana Olal) and Melina (Melina Trimarchi), and soon the whole gaggle o’ girls are downing Molson (this flick was created in the Great White North, eh?), smokin’ weed, and bitching about who’ll have to sleep in the room that served as Garett’s grand-pappy’s deathbed.
Speaking of “death”, our heroes also encounter Megan (Zoe Slobodzian), the underwear enthusiast next-door neighbor who’s father may have put the murder biz on her mommy dearest back in the day.
With all that talk of goin’ tits up does it come as any surprise that the arcane abode they find themselves in appears to be haunted… but is it, is it really?
With Death Trip, director James Watts and writer Kelly Kay present a stylish thriller indeed, but there are a few stumbling blocks that keep this one from becoming as effective of a thriller as it could be.
While flashes and hits of what’s to come are given throughout the narrative, this picture takes way too long to get where it’s going, and at over an hour and forty minutes, some of that fat could definitely have been trimmed, because s it stands it’s well over an hour before the true horror biz kicks in.
What the film does have going for it is the aforementioned style (which comes to the fore in the nightmare and hallucinogenic sequences peppered throughout, but it’s damn purdy the rest of the time too), and a fantastic (if somewhat green) cast that really give it their all to bring this fright flick to life.
At the end of the day, Death Trip is a solid, if overly long thriller that satisfies but never really reaches it’s full potential.
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