iMurders

Won Best Picture at Chicago Horror Fest!
I saw iMurders at the Chicago Horror festival where some of the cast and crew was in attendance and director Robbie Bryan was awarded the best feature length picture of the festival.

iMurders is about seven friends who are members of a chat room on FaceSpace, a combination of Facebook and Myspace, one of their number is a Hollywood special effects artist with a flare for the theatrical and every month he invents a new game for them to play. When they start playing his latest game, members of the chatroom start turning up dead, and in gruesome ways. While none of the murders is especially explicit there is a fair amount of gore but most of the shock is supplied by quick edits and what you think you may see. I don't think it will disappoint enthusiasts of the genre.

The casting is also outstanding. William Forsthye stars and his voice and his presence on screen is a sinister menace. Another casting coup is Charles Durning with a small role as a psychiatrist. And...

ANOTHER WHO-DUN-IT
This is a murder mystery. You attempt to figure out the killer from the sketchy clues. The movie cuts the scene before it gives you the information one would need to solve the mystery. This technique is used in many such films, but in this one it was overdone and too obvious, as it appears to be a tool substituted for a lack of writing skills.

We know the beginning is a clue. A man is having an affair. The computer in the room is turned on and his wife comes home and catches them. The typical argument ensues followed by a gun shot. Who were these people? Who got killed? Who did the killing? We never find out until the end as knowing the relationship between the people in the story might make solving the mystery easier. The movie deliberately plants clues to lead one astray from the real killer.

Movie contains sexual situations, brief nudity, girl/girl action, violence, blood, and slight gore.

How Brooke Lewis and Tony Todd ALMOST saved this film!
Being a big fan of indie films, especially horror and suspense, I had heard a lot of talk about iMurders. So I bought it sight unseen. It should have been a rental. I would love to explain the plot (s) to you but I'm afraid if I even attempt it my head will explode. Yes, it's that nonsensical! Something about a contest amongst webcam friends and then there is a murderer picking them off one by one. Oh, and then Charles Durning and some Asian chick show up in therapy sessions followed by Billy Dee Williams and Gabrielle Anwar doing something else. But then William Forsythe comes in as a horny college professor followed by the star of the film (some blonde, I forget her name) who happens to be dating the guy down the hall (a reclusive former cop) ... oh, and then some more stuff happens. Look, rent this movie and if you have to buy it buy it for the fact that the hottest actress in recent memory, Brooke Lewis (no offense, Jennifer Love Hewitt) shows that she's not only great to look at...

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