Director Laszlo Illes
Starring Mark Sheppard, Bonnie Aarons, Michael Berryman, Kane Hodder, and Malcolm McDowell
Rated MA
Score 4/6
A group of girlfriends arrives at a forest lodge to celebrate, but things take a horrific turn as they realize that the forest is home to bloodthirsty lunatics who perceive themselves to be characters from classic fairy tales.
Okay, yes, I watched Ever After on Halloween; it only seemed appropriate. No, I didn’t watch it with the lights off. Yes, I’m a wimp. Bob Keen’s 1995 movie Proteus and Jason Eisener’s 2011 Hobo with a Shotgun put an end to that. As for subgenres of the horror genre go, I will admit that Ever After is the first folk horror movie that I have watched in more than a few years. Even though Ever After is a slasher movie I wouldn’t regarded it as a blood & fest though yes there is the genre mandated blood splatter. Though I’m not familiar with Laszlo Illes’ work as a director with Ever After, Illes delivered a movie that had several cinematic moments that I genuinely didn’t expect to see from a garden variety slasher movie.
Now, I was familiar with most of the fairytales referenced in the movie though I will admit that after watching the movie I had to look up the tale of the frog king to remind myself. I loved Malcolm McDowell’s voice work as The Frog King. I also thought that Mark Sheppard was brilliant as The Ring Master. I also enjoyed Philippe Reinhardt’s performance as Prince Charming. Now, my biggest complaint is that the girlfriends celebrating a bachelorette party seemed to be assholes and really didn’t come across as sympathetic figures. I really didn’t find myself seriously invested in their fate until the movie’s finale sequence.
- Lessons that I have Learnt From Watching Movies
- #60 A Slasher movie villain is Infinitely cooler when they are armed with a flame thrower – Ever After