Fantastic!

Did you people see the same film I saw?

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

I've rarely felt as disappointed from watching a horror flick as after "Horror in the Attic" … I looked forward to this film because of the seemingly innovative basic premise, some of the names in the cast and the director (whose other movies "The Wizard of Gore" and "All Souls Day" intrigued me to say the least). However, it quickly becomes apparent that this is an overly ambitious – on the verge of pretentious, even – and wannabe be intellectual psychological thriller that is more confusing than compelling and much more annoying than frightening. Surely you'll encounter many reviews stating that "Horror in the Attic" is a truly amazing and brilliant film, and these are also the exact same reviews that will claim that if you don't like it, well, you don't "get it". Don't worry about that. I've seen my share of psychedelic cinema classics, including the whole oeuvres of Alejandro Jodorowsky, David Lynch and Fernando Arrabal, and let me assure you this nearly doesn't play in the same league. The plot contains a few noteworthy fresh ideas and Jeremy Kasten maintains the sinister atmosphere for quite a long time, but then the film irrevocably drowns in its own pool of pseudo-mystery and audacity. The story's protagonist, Trevor Blackburn, awakes from a coma and the (clearly capricious) Doctor Ek bluntly tells him that he remained unconscious for four years after murdering his fiancée in a pagan ritual. The house where he supposedly committed his hateful crime turned into an alternative type of sanitarium in the meantime, and naturally Trevor gets submitted here, in the good (?) care of Dr. Ek's colleague Dr. Thalama. Meandering through the house – and particularly the attic – Trevor's amnesic mind slowly begins to function again and he discovers that Dr. Ek is a manipulative crook. I'm strongly convinced that, with a slightly more straightforward scenario and a lot more bloody action, "Horror in the Attic" could have been a modest cult gem. Now it's just a largely dull, derivative and pretentious flick with only a few isolated highlights. The acting performances of the lead actors are rather forgettable… I spent the entire movie wondering where the hell I saw that guy Trevor's face before, but frustratingly didn't find the answer. Only afterwards, through clicking on his name here on the website, I remembered that he appeared in my favorite "Nightmare on the Elm Street" sequel, namely part four "The Dream Master". Seth Green's performance is a pitiable imitation of Brad Pitt in "Twelve Monkeys" and the luscious Beth Bates is only granted the opportunity to show off her beautiful body instead of her acting capacities. The supportive cast is what's most interesting here, with interesting (albeit typecast) roles for veteran actors Jeffrey Combs ("Re-Animator"), Wendie Robie ("The People Under the Stairs") and Ted Raimi ("The Evil Dead"). Perhaps the weirdest moment in this overall weird movie is the cameo appearance by rock star Alice Cooper. Keep an eye open for that!

~Spoiler~The Attic Expeditions was a fun and very cool movie when I first viewed it in 2001. Apparently my tastes have changed. Revisiting it in 2008 I'm having difficulty reasoning why I own this film. The film follows Trevor (Andras Jones from Nightmare on Elm Street 4) as he is recovering from brain surgery in an insane asylum. Trevor's evil Dr. is running an experiment on him to find an occult book that Trevor may or may not be in possession of. There are many Lovecraft nods that horror geeks will pick up on; the book is obviously meant to be the Necronomicon. The Attic Expeditions is your typical "head screw" story where you're never sure what is reality or what is not. And that's the problem. I'm sick of these movies. I find the majority of them tedious and nigh incomprehensible. The photography is fantastic and the actors are all commendable, though Jones is a bit wooden. Jeffrey Combs is always good at the evil doctor role, Ted Raimi is a great ham, and Seth Green seems a little out of place. Alice Cooper has a small cameo. I thought director Jeremy Kasten was going to be a name to watch for. Unfortunately I was majorly disappointed with his second feature, All Soul's Day, and did not bother watching his third, The Thirst.

When Trevor Blackburn awoke from a coma,he had no memory of his past.In search for answers,he breaks into the secret attic with another patient,as the others are being killed one by one.A darkly sinister doctor played by a horror regular Jeffrey Combs informed him that he'd been committed to a sanitarium for the criminally insane for the sacrificial murder of his fiancée.Thrown into a bizarre halfway house filled with strange psychos he plunges into a violent world of magic,nightmares,wild sexual escapades and torturous medical experiments.The above synopsis on the back of my tape sounded pretty good,so I finally decided to check this film out."The Attic Expeditions" is a pretty unusual horror flick.It contains a decent amount of violence and nudity.The plot is interesting as it showcases plenty of unique twists and turns,but in the end becomes extremely confusing.8 out of 10.

What prompted me to write this review is that this movie has gotten a 5.3 rating. That's not fair. Fortunately there are promising recent horror movies out there but this one follows a disturbing trend to put out movies which are unwatchable onto DVD. You cannot just shoot scene after scene which has no connection towards each other and put it out like it was a movie. Spaghetti has a certain structure. If it didn't have that structure it wouldn't be spaghetti. Similarly, this movie does not have a structure which from the wildest stretch of imagination could be called a movie. Thus it should never have been released. But of course it was. It's like movies such as the recent similarly uncoherent plot less visionless "The Boogeyman". They are not really movies. And they are not really horror movies.