Dial D for Demons (2000)
Reviewed by: trenty on 2000-12-27
Summary: Old stuff or maybe copied.
"Dial D for demons" basicly had a bad english title to the movie itself. During the run time of the movie, I see no relationship between the title and the movie. Before the movie was viewed, I personally thought that the movie would about characters in the movie communicating with the demons side. However, it turned out to be an old story we saw before or maybe the story itself was copied from another one we known.

The run time of the movie was unevenly supported by the script. The movie started off with a group of 6 to vacation at a haunted mansion, then one by one dies after reading their pager while everyone of them trying to escape this so-called "curse". Here, we wasted almost 9/10 of the movie run time already. What's the last 1/10 of the movie about? The 9/10 part of the movie we had watched was nothing but characters running for their lives. The 1/10 part of the movie ended with another story just to make what we watched earlier unique but no. It's because the 9/10 we watched had no script to backup or support the ending itself.

There are nothing much to enjoy from this movie but some pop-up sound effect moments. In general, zero scare here. There are a few times where the pagers/phones popped out from the silence which may draw some viewers' attentions. However, I found that the misuse of this effect will no longer work because it's boring and predictable to recent ghost-movie viewers, in other words, same old stuff we watched from other ghost movies. Also, the occasion appearrance of the ghost was also copied from another ghost movie (The Ring) and due to repeatedly shown, it resulted zero effect also to audience.

The performances here are up to their average and none of the actors/actresses here are specially to talk about. There was lack of character development of the six main characters. For example, the relationship between Big Bully, Gabriel and May was covered bad. The relationship only concentrated at Big Bully and Gabriel (which was welly covered) but left out May. There could have been a more descriptive between three of them to fulfill the development of their relationship in the movie. Also, the relationship between Pently and PJ was starting to develope but then we lost them due to their suspicous deaths. As to the last character, Sammie, I didn't see what's the need for this character to exist but to waste a bit more run time during the movie.

To conclude, this movie wasn't as enjoyable as others because there are many scenes in the movie were borrowed from previous ghost movies we watched. I would not recommand this movie to ghost-moviegoers unless someone in the cast you like to watch.