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Each event is a freak accident that harkens toFinal Destination-level hijinksbut aims for more black comedy.
Its the kind of movie primed for midnight screenings.
Hal, the true protagonist, is a wilting flower easily bruised and endlessly bullied, especially by Bill.
Life quickly unravels from there as strange deaths in their small town pile up.
Twenty-five years and a few more deaths later, the monkey seems dormant.
Bill and Hal have become men, but havent quite grown up.
Theyre now played by Theo James, whose good looks could make-up for both twins deficient personalities.
Bills smarm has calcified into a kind of mad obsession; Hal is a starkly lonely and cowardly man.
Familial strife is the films backbone, but what a poor and broken backbone it is.
Horror films primed on increasingly gory demises have always trafficked in archetypes.
These arent characters or even archetypes but the bare sketches of human beings.
It was a stellar marketing campaign in search of a better film.
If anything, I wanted that humor to be punchier, more brutal.
Instead, there are just more gruesome deaths, growing exceedingly ridiculous as the story continues.
