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Morella
The time is the early 21st century and a genetics lab has been destroyed in a fire seriously injuring a scientist and possibly killing his daughter. As two investigators begin to unravel the story of the lab and its experiments, they discover that the scientist may have started the fire himself with the intention of killing his own daughter. The journals of the scientist and of the lab's founder, Dr. Patricia Morella, tell the tale of genetics experiments going badly awry and of the deceit that was used to hide them even from some of those that were involved. Dr. Morella's legacy is a clone whose only goal in life is its own survival and reproduction...no matter what the cost!
| Release : | 1997 |
| Rating : | 3.5 |
| Studio : | Allott Productions, |
| Crew : | Art Direction, Production Design, |
| Cast : | Nicholas Guest Khrystyne Haje Angela Jones Robert Lipton Lisa Darr |
| Genre : | Horror Thriller Science Fiction |
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Awesome Movie
It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.
Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies
The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.
This movie was so absurd it was hysterical. Okay, its the near future and this genius geneticist creates a clone of her screwed up self before she dies. Somehow this clone becomes the child of her on job paramour (Guest) and then everything goes straight to hell. The clone (Sarah) does the typical Bad Seed faire complete with cloying choir music and jarring violins. Add to this the annoying preponderace of poorly lit sets and the occasional but pompous narration and you have a film that literally drains the life out of you as you watch. I wouldn't recommend it not even on a whim.
Morella is definitely not one of the big movies but never the less it is worth watching. Though the characterplay lacks some depth Morella captivates with the mood, scenery, the pictures however you might call it. The style reminds me a litle bit of the games "Silent Hill" or "Another Day in the Dark". Although the film plays in the early 21st century, it looks more like 1920-30 with a litle bit of 1990 laboratories-in-sf-films design and a few gimmicks, which come from the 21st century - a really nice and intriguing mix! The story is interesting and spooky though I don't know the original by E.A.Poe so that I can not say wether the film lives up to the story... Morella is definitely not a film for everyone. Lots will not like it and say it is boring because M is no popcorn-film and not for the great audience. But I enjoyed it...
This may be unfair because we only watched the first 25 minutes of this movie. I am the kind of person who NEVER turns off movies I've paid for, but this was a first. Not only were we so disgusted with the movie we turned it off not even half-way through, we went out and rented another to get the memory of this movie out of our minds. This was a great story idea gone very, very bad with HORRIBLE acting, bad camera work, and script caliber of no more than USA Up All Night.
The dark and ominous music was the highlight of this exercise in predictability. In Poe's original Morella, the narrator's wife dies giving birth to her daughter. In this mediocre modernized telling, Morella is a genetic scientist who creates a clone of herself before dying. While Poe's text was full of eloquence (The days have never been when thou couldst love me- but her whom in life thou didst abhor, in death thou shalt adore), this script is driven by pretentious voice-overs. The movie tries too hard to be moody and creepy, and ends up being cheesy.
