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In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

The attempt of the director to make a horror movie lies flat on the ground.The ghost or horror element appears only for 2 very short instant,in fact the poster is more horrifying than the movie.The central premise is so vague and ill-defined that it ends up making less sense as time goes on.In the movie it constantly needs to fade to black in order to jump from one character to another. For a film that supposedly takes place over the course of a night, this is not only unnecessary but serves to deflate the dramatic tension."Dead Mary" is a below mediocre movie. The urban legend of Bloody Mary that was brilliantly explored in "Candyman" in the 90's, now is used in a rip-off of "Evil Dead". There are many movies with "a group of friends that goes to a cabin in the woods and faces evil", like for example "Cabin Fever", which works. But "Dead Mary" is awful, with a boring beginning, a messy story where "Dead Mary" never shows up, and a ridiculous conclusion.This movie was a disappointment on several different levels. As we first start in it's obviously going to be yet another horror movie about beastly and possibly a couple of decent young people heading out to do stupid things in the woods and on that note it played through.

I am sure this film disappointed a lot of people but it was right up my street, as we say. A group of young friends meeting death one by one in the woods is a cheap enough project. The strength here was in the slow naturalistic build and the good acting. You have time to work out the tensions within the group, aspects of their character, past history. The photography is good and lazy discourses should remind many of the days when time wasn't so precious. The induction of evil into the group is passed off quite smoothly. Thereafter there is a satisfying logic to the actions and reactions. I know some people are bothered by other Mary tales as if they are cheated out of something. There's no witch in Blair Witch and there's no Ripper in Ripper. Titles aren't labels on jam jars or guarantees. Some worried that this isn't Evil Dead but that's the last film I want to see.

DEAD MARY (2007) is a very uniquely interesting horror film. It plays mind games with both it's characters and the moviegoer. The 7 characters Kim (Dominique Swain), Eve (Marie-Josee Colburn), Baker (Steve McCarthy), Lily (Maggie Castle), Dash (Michael Majeski), Amber (Reagan Pasternak), and Matt (Jefferson Brown) all find themselves in over their heads big time! The initial vibe is that it's just a friendly get-together in a remote cabin amongst friends, then it takes an oddly eerie turn into horror.There is an air of isolation that permeates throughout DEAD MARY once the horror starts and the opening sequence personifies this with Kim and Matt seemingly in the middle of nowhere on the roadside on their way to meet their old college friends Ted, Eve, Baker, and Dash (along with Baker's younger girlfriend Lily) at Ted's cabin. Ted himself is nowhere to be found after they all arrive and I think never showing us what happened to Ted adds to the film's isolated tone. A lingering question that I have is that I wonder if Ted was attacked/possessed before the others arrived and is he the one that initiated all this? And perhaps the Dead Mary game they played that night is just a coincidence/MacGuffin to throw both the characters and the viewers off. It's never really explained in the film.Now just in terms of what's going on with the characters we see, the viewer actually knows who is responsible, but not how it all started, or even how (or if) it all ends! The most interesting aspect of DEAD MARY is that instead of settling for being just a mindless horror flick with stupid puns where a literal monster is killing off the characters, it uses the device of tying the possessions into the personal lives of the characters, but in a very tongue-in-cheek, all too honest way. Before the possessions, you could tell these old friends were kind of jaded and uneasy with each other and with life in general, then the possession releases brings all their mistrust, secrets, inhibitions, and shortcomings to the forefront.The real success of DEAD MARY lies in it's utter ambiguity about what is really happening. Is it a simple possession by Dead Mary (spurred by the game they played that first night) that is causing all this? Is it some other demon or spirit and the Dead Mary game was coincidence? Is it the actual apocalypse, which would explain the lack of other people around?!I thought the ensemble acting was very good amongst the cast, with standout characters being Baker, Eve, and the scenery-chewing Dash. The actors were very convincing playing longtime friends with secrets. DEAD MARY is a solid horror yarn with an ambiguity and storyline that I think warrants repeated viewing.

(There are Spoilers) Getting together at Ted's Cabin in th woods this group of friends who haven't seen each other in years start to talk about the problems that their having in their relationships and their very uncertain future in the business world. For whatever reasons the movie makers had in mind this mysterious "Ted" is never seen or heard from during the entire film even though he's mentioned more times then anyone else in it!Could the name "Ted" have been some kind of inside joke, on the part of the actors and crew, or was he just edited out, on the cutting room floor, in order to save on production costs? The movie seems to go absolutely nowhere for the first half hour until Eva, Marie-Josee Colburn, suggests that the by now bored to tears young people play a Ouija-Board like game called "Dead Mary". The game has each of Eve's friends go into the darkened bathroom, with a lighted candle, and speak out the name "Dead Mary" in the mirror three times. It's then that things start to liven up in the movie with almost everyone ending up dead when this evil spirit takes over the bodies of the persons playing the game. The spirit causes those whom it gains control of to first go insane and then go out and kill each other!What the movie "Dead Mary" does is have the evil spirit not only take over the bodies of the persons in it but give them an insight to their cheating on each others which seem to be, to those involved, far greater then them being brutally murdered. Matt, Jefferson Brown, the first victim of this horror ends up being dismembered in the woods yet is still alive, when he's found, to talk all kinds of gossip about his friends in them cheating on each others girlfriends and boyfriends.Those who find Matt are far more shocked and startled in the revelations he brings out about them then in Matt's obviously desperate condition in him being, besides a talking head, in pieces all over the forest floor! it's then that each of persons at the cabin start to go off the deep end in not trusting each other and thus ending, in order not to be killed by the evil spirit, doing each other in!What makes "Dead Mary" worth watching is the dark and eerie photography that has you feeling that, like those in the film, your in some kind of ghostly forest where it never stops raining. The acting is also a lot better then you would expect in a slasher movie like "Dead Mary" with those in it actually acting like grown ups with real problems not just jumping in bed with each other at every given opportunity.Besides the aforementioned actors and actresses there's also Kim, Dominique Swain, who's about the only person in the film who keeps from cracking up and letting herself being controlled by "Dead Mary's" evil spirit. The same can't be said for everyone else in the movie who end up losing it, their minds and lives, when they unconsciously let "Dead Mary" take them over.