Touches You

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Sarah is (assumed college age) spending some time with an older woman that also helped with her childhood friend (now dead). She runs into some car trouble pulls into a mechanic; she learns of the tale where a man has sword revenge on a boy (now a young man) on his 21st birthday. She gets a ride and learns the woman also knows the boy; his 21st birthday is Monday.The movie spends a lot of time getting into the swing of things, but also spends a great degree of time with characters talking. The acting tends to be flat, monotone, or otherwise believable, but the combination of these means the movie also falls flat. The movie never approaches the degree of say cinema blockbusters, nor does it have the pacing and computer graphics there of. After the first hour I gave up trying to watch it for anything to happen - it doesn't exactly transgress like many horror movies do; instead it looks as though it was meant to be the following of a life altering moment for a girl as she is new to her adult years. Fast forwarding through the movie did reveal some specific moments where paranormal activity did occur; but it seems this movie is more of a supernatural drama than anything else.If you enjoy supernatural drama, this movie may be for you; but it appears to be a low budget b-grade movie without the b-grade moments that separate b-grade movies.Originally posted to Orion Age (http://www.orionphysics.com/?p=10760).

released with no publicity or anything a few weeks back I saw this on a couple of movie Marquees and went to investigate. Family friendly (they hoped) TV movie about a 17 or 18 year old girl going to visit the family of a deceased childhood friend. There she runs into a mystery involving ghosts and a death curse. My notes from this are sketchy, mostly scribbles about how Rissa Walters as Sarah can't act. To be certain she looks good but its all over once she opens her mouth.The real question I seemed to have was how this ever got any sort of theatrical release, even one that rivals the release of Terry Jones Wind and the Willows (Then again this has some promotional material,I remember a poster, wind in the willows didn't). A waste of time. Lets hope the promise of a series of Sarah Landon films never is fulfilled.

It was nice to see a movie that a family can watch together.We enjoyed it,though we expected something else.Take the kids to see this one.Rarely does a movie like this come to the big screen (a "scary" movie that the whole family can enjoy).But,if you're an adult without kids you would probably rather go see something else.Judge for yourselves.Well,not much else I can say without ruining it.OH-the acting was TERRIBLE,but I still think that was forgivable since this is such a rare opportunity to see a "scary" movie that is NOT too scary for any age.It was truly refreshing for a family that doesn't allow the kids to watch inappropriate content.

We had seen the commercials for this movie on Nickelodeon, and my 11-year-old son thought it looked good and wanted to see it. I was curious after reading that the movie was shot on DVCProHD format and was apparently a low-budget family affair. I too have been a part of such productions, and I wanted to see how a movie like this fared on the big screen. I took my son and two of his friends-- 3 boys, ages 11, 11, and 10. They loved the movie! Walking out of the theatre, they were amazed, talking about their favorite parts, and how scary it was. Sure, some critics have lambasted it. But it was a hit with the target tween audience I saw it with. It's a very enjoyable mystery involving the paranormal, set up in a way that's complex but followable (maybe a bit too complex? I thought so at first, but in retrospect it all worked-- complexity just means you have to pay attention and engage your brain-- is that a bad thing?) and it has a logic that holds up and pays off in a satisfying way in the end. I believe the cause of the negative reactions in some of the other commenters here, as well as those of the professional critics, could be that in an intelligent story like this, much of the exposition and key plot points must be conveyed through dialogue and acting, and the subtleties of the acting craft are crucial. But, when you're on a budget, really good, experienced actors are hard to come by. But like I said, any sub-par acting didn't hinder my son's enjoyment of the film. He and his friends were not comparing it to Harry Potter, or any other film for that matter. The lead actress was very good. It's no small feat to carry a movie, and she did it nicely. Directing and cinematography were fine. Nothing screamed low-budget, and any noticeable differences in the "look" of the movie due to the DVCProHD format were not problematic, and really no more extensive than, say, 16mm blown up to 35mm. Of course, the kids (again, the target audience) didn't know the difference. There was a little graininess in a couple of dark interior scenes-- be we've all seen that in shot-on-film horror movies, so it didn't detract. Overall, a good job, and I applaud the filmmakers and distributor for taking the chance and bringing this movie to the big screen.