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

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Starring Kristin Kerr,Lizzie Strain & Julie Strain,Trent Haaga and Llloyd Kaufman. "Surreal Horror",An ignored Genre ? This Ramzi Abed film breaks down walls and formats and all filmaking rules ! I kept getting this nagging feeling while watching that I had seen Trent Haaga's character before,LIGHT BULB goes off : Herke Harvey as the spectre in CARNIVAL OF SOULS ('62).Trent keeps popping up in this Black Dahlia mystery and he has evil intentions,Usually. This is a good movie with SAW-like actions towards victims,great acting by all the cameos and Kristin Kerr is a modern day Elisabeth Short (With an almost Betty Page fetish tone). Lots of extras on this 2 disc set including making of and complete separate soundtrack.

This is actually one of the strangest and most bizarre movies i've ever seen. A horrorstory woven into a dream, made of short arty scenes and a fantastic soundtrack made by David J (Bauhaus) and Ego Plum.I don't know a movie to compare this with, thought it reminded me of some movies. The movies that came to my mind were 'the naked breakfast'(because of the surrealism) and pink Floyd - the Wall (because of the music-picture combination). If you like arty films, this movie will blow your mind. But if you're just looking for a nasty horrorslasher, look further, you won't find it in this movie.Don't expect a predictable story, expect a dream from which you can't wake up till the end of the movie.

Great art is open ended, and such are the works of Ramzi Abed.Abed's films offer the viewer the opportunity to detach from them self and to escape this world for a little over an hour.Expect nothing when watching an Abed film and you will have everything.What can I say about The Black Dahlia Movie? I have no idea what that was going on during the film AND YET IT WAS AEWSOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How does that happen? How does a filmmaker take on us a journey with no clear destination and still entertain us? Perhaps it's best not to think too much about it, or life in general.Abed is a genius. Watch his films!

Dreams are not movies or reality. They are the mind's attempt to sort out difficult information. The difficult reality portrayed in this dream-like movie is that Elizabeth Short is only one of many.The atmosphere can be quite oppressive at times, as the audience is put right in among the Dahlias in a Hollywood that is exactly as glamorous as a burlesque house in the low rent section of any town. It should play more cheerily at home with the lights on, as it would in a drive-in on the same bill with, say The Indestructible Man or Gun Crazy. If you are reading this 10 or 20 years down the line you can watch Black Dahlia Movie for a glimpse of the world that was. This dream-like vision will tell you something about how people felt about this subject when it was made. The director can be seen working on the movie. It's his troubled point-of-view that puts actual talented unknowns in very contemporary settings. Little walkways between buildings, seedy-looking houses where parties are staged by fake big-shots, and the plain old streets of Hollywood.The editing could use some tightening because it isn't a dream, only dream-like, and I wish Ramzi Abed had had a bigger budget. People who dislike the early and later work of Stanley Kubrick and the jazzy poetical riffing of Jack Kerouac will not like this one bit. Repeat viewing can bring out it's more traditional narrative qualities. Toward the end, as many dreams do at the approach of wakefulness, the story seems to be trying to reconcile itself to the harsh reality it has been contemplating by imagining fantastic resolutions, each with it's own narrative logic, then goes back where it began with the young dead woman in the weedy lot. There's no way to fix what was done to her.This is just the sort of cultural document an impressionable young person needs to see. Never mind that the occasionally not-so-great acting and tellingly low budget will make them laugh, or the gruesome murders portrayed give them nightmares. A timely warning might keep some kid from making a mistake.The contribution of David J and other musicians helps. There are lots of cute actresses in this movie. Kristen Kerr, who plays the chief Dahlia, is poetry in motion.