No One Lives (18) 86 mins **
Taken with last
week’s superior You’re Next, this
dreary slasher would suggest we’re in for a raft of horror runarounds pitting
representatives of the 1% against the murderously aggrieved remainder. Here,
it’s a psychopath wrestling a set of backwoods ne’er-do-wells for possession of
the brittle blonde heiress he’d previously kidnapped. Director Ryuhei Kitamura
ladles on the entrails like a ghoulish dinnerlady, but his three-way narrative
strategies lead nowhere: the film’s switching between the fictional equivalents
of Ted Bundy, the Manson family and Paris Hilton, without realising this gives
us no-one we might remotely give a hoot about.
No One Lives is in selected cinemas from today, ahead of its DVD release on September 23.
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