Kulam Review

 
    Kulam is a Horror Movie that star Juddy Ann Santos and Dennis Trillo with Jun Lana as Director. The movie basically talks about the dark practice that has been embedded to Filipino Culture which involves dolls, needles and a lot of chants.

    Nothing really good to say about this movie. Except that it did make me hope that it was actually good prior to viewing it and realizing that I had just wasted my time and money. This is because I know that one thing that our local film industry was doing right was the successful run of horror movies in the past few years. I remember enjoying flicks like Feng-sui and Sukob even though some might consider them just pure dumb fun. Bottom line is.. they’re fun. And everytime that a Local Film seems to be at the very least entertaining, then I am very willing to give that movie a chance. This time, however, I was wrong.

    To start off, the quality ofthe production is very amateurish. I’m not sure but I believe this movie was shot in film but the picture really looks like it was shot in video. Not the good quality, hi-def video. It was more like from the lower-consumer line of camcorders. The colors really look dull on screen. I’ve seen better quality pictures from past Filipino Movies. The editing was horrible too. I believe a lot of the cuts in the film were too soon and they are very distracting. Although abrupt cuts usually works on horror films but this time. it really wasn’t effective.

   The story didn’t help either. There were so many plot holes in the script, the charaters could have tripped over them. Some elements in the story just didn’t make sense. Although I will have to admit that some scenes really had potential of being genuinely creepy but they were just really on the wrong hands. They could have been great scenes but were handled very poorly. Not to mention that the ending is probably one of the lamest I’ve seen recently.

    Acting-wise, you couldn’t probably have asked more from the cast. Some of them, especially Judy Ann, were just typecasted in their roles so they probably weren’t given much to work with from the beginning.

   Overall, I wouldn’t recommend this movie to my worst enemy. No one deserves to have his/her time wasted on something would make you feel bored and sorry afterwards. But as I always say, I’ll try to never lose hope for our Local Film Industry. Besides, it couldn’t probably get any worse than it is now.

1 out of 5 stars