Open 24 Hours

Good movie!

Good movie!

Good movie!

Good movie!

"Open 24 Hours" is a gory one-location, slasher-like, mystery-in-delusion indie horror, working decreasingly well on those levels in that order. Overall, it proved to be an all-around okay fourth horror feature from Padraig Reynolds, an indie director who seems to love the genre and his role in it. Mary (Vanessa Grasse) has been through a lot, having escaped from the life together with a serial killer, and is now trying to start anew, still fighting trauma, paranoia and delusions. She lands a well necessary job in a remote gas station as a nightshift clerk, a place where all that can go wrong, will go wrong. The story, written to twist and turn, in the end turns out rather conventional as most of theories that came to mind took a turn to nowhere. The line between Mary's delusion and reality is continuously tried to be blurred, and everything ends in as much conclusion as in ambiguity, but in either case feeling a little underwhelming. In other words, "Open 24 Hours" 'fizzles out' towards the end as the second half gradually favors simpler tropes and actionable filler. On the other hand, all is well in the horrors taking place in the gas station, for the entire cast provides rather nifty little performances, with the highlight inarguably belonging to Vanessa Grasse. Another satisfying and consistently good aspect of "Open 24 Hours" is its aesthetic coating, built from creative, handsome cinematography and a solid effort by the FX and make-up team. Though perhaps not in excessive amounts, gore hounds will find their desert served extra bloody. On the matters of sound, in my opinion the original score didn't really have an extraordinary touches, as it reminded lot of the musical palette used in a multitude of genre flicks. If musical scores can be described as cliché, this one kind of is. While the set bar of technical qualities of "Open 24 Hours" never seem to diminish, the substance, or story, on a certain level, does. All in all Padraig Reynold's newest hooray in horror is an entertaining (enough) and effortful indie piece, flaws and some lesser turns included. My rating: 5/10.

This was a nice surprise. I have seen so many horrors lately but they mostly didn't deliver except afew but this one, it did deliver if you do like slashers. I mean, it's main lead is a youngster and so it's made for adolescents but it goes way further than other teen horrors. It starts rather easy and slowly and the viewer is tricked by the fact is it a delusion or real. And so this flick moves further between the two and delivers suspense, creepy moments, jumpscenes and even rather gory moments. The red stuff is all over. And the acting is also way over mediocre so that's a good point too. It reminded me of the new wave of horrorsstarted in 1996 and I would file it in the style of Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer. I liked this one a lot. Gore 2/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 4/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5

I think this deserves better than a 5. Okay, so it's not the most original movie I've ever seen, but it was still done pretty well. The acting was great (Brendan Fletcher is terribly underrated IMHO) and it kept me entertained. Also some really good gore, if that's your thing.

Seriously, why writers and directors even bother making such boring loop of clichés? Even the music and sound are, seems to be made with low cost stock, not because of the quality but because you heard every bit a million times before, where's your creativity guys??!! The theme's been done a thousand times before and here they don't even bother to be imaginative with the killer (this one was beyond pathetic in terms of originality) or the killings (seen the first one? they're all the same!! Where's the fun? Where's the meaning of this movie, did you enjoy making something so mediocre and stupid? Two stars and I'm being generous, they go towards the photography which is definitely the strongest point and some of the acting. I'd honestly be ashamed only to present a script like this to anyone. Low budget should push indie directors/writers to use their brains, not just copy-paste mediocre scripts and go film. What a waste of a production. What a lack of creativity. I'll mark this director/writer to avoid in the future.

Only if you love slashers you're going to find some substance watching this movie. It has several nice deaths and the setting is pretty cool. On the other hand weak script, acting and storyline. So, overall just an OK b type slasher.

Does well blurring the lines between what is a ptsd hallucination and what is happening in reality. Good pacing with the main character's history slowly being unravelled throughout the first half. Some surprises along the way plot wise were great. Nothing too creative with the gore and some of the fighting scenes are very nonsensical. Not a fan of open-ended endings but overall a fine production and engaging horror film.