Here
we go with another dumb Christian movie. A couple kids in their
mid-20s who live with their parents go to a lock in at a church,
because they're cool. Unfortunately one of them sneaks in a porn mag
(which we don't even get to see, as it's kept inside a brown paper
bag the whole time, like booze or something) which either releases or
attracts a demon to terrorise them.
I'm
serious, that's the plot.
After
taking a veryyyyyyyyy long time to get going (and lots of scenes with
one character's weirdly over-protective parents who seem to be
ad-libbing all their lines) we don't even get to see the demon. The
kids are transported into some kind of alternate dimension, where
horrifying things like a bin falling over and the lights turning off
happen. This kind of stuff can be pretty scary, if it's built up
right and nicely shot and lit and all that, but here it wasn't. Dear
god it wasn't. The whole film is shot in shaky found footage style
using an old cam corder, and the audio is straight off the camera (so
lots of background buzzing and difficult to discern lines).
It's
introduced by an ex-pastor/priest/whatever, and we get the impression
that all the kids die or something, but then none of them do!
Literally nothing happens. I was hoping for a big silly demon costume
and lots of bad gore, but nope just a few badly executed jump-scares
and an invisible baddie. At one point there's a Damien-style demon
child sitting on the ground, that turns around and goes "neah!", but the
effects job on his face consisted solely of darkening up his eyes a
bit. A terrible terrible movie. Me and a few friends enjoyed laughing
at it, but that says more about the quality of my company than it
does the film. It's not good, it's not even so bad it's good. It's
just shite.
The Lock In: 3.0