This is a fine example of everything that is wrong with modern horror films. The premise is flimsy: a bunch of students summon a demon from a ouiji board, it starts killing them off one by one; nothing you haven't seen a thousand times before.
The characters are completely undefined - we never see them for more than a few seconds, I went through most of the film trying to work out who was who. No background is given, none of them are very really shown expressing emotion (a little bit of fake crying and yelling here or there to show how REALLY FREAKED OUT they all are by the mysterious deaths of their friends) which means you don't particulary give a damn when they are slaughtered.
And the deaths themselves are quite boring; considering the film is selling itself as a gorefest, it is remarkably blood-free and there are no wincingly painful deaths (contrast with something like "Final Destination" which makes you feel sympathy for the characters simply for their painful, painful deaths)
The film is horribly unrealistic. One perfect example is when, after the first death, one of the group who is into ouiji tries to convince the others that it is a demon who killed their friend. She tells them it's a demon. They yell a bit, then calmly accept it, so that the film can move on quickly. In reality, if someone told you that your friend had been murdered by a demon, would you believe it? Unlikely. And later on, characters who have by now accepted that a fire demon is trying to kill them split up in an abandoned house. Have these trendy students never watched a horror movie in their lives?
Lon Time Dead is boring and annoying. Spend 90 minutes doing something remotely interesting instead.
The characters are completely undefined - we never see them for more than a few seconds, I went through most of the film trying to work out who was who. No background is given, none of them are very really shown expressing emotion (a little bit of fake crying and yelling here or there to show how REALLY FREAKED OUT they all are by the mysterious deaths of their friends) which means you don't particulary give a damn when they are slaughtered.
And the deaths themselves are quite boring; considering the film is selling itself as a gorefest, it is remarkably blood-free and there are no wincingly painful deaths (contrast with something like "Final Destination" which makes you feel sympathy for the characters simply for their painful, painful deaths)
The film is horribly unrealistic. One perfect example is when, after the first death, one of the group who is into ouiji tries to convince the others that it is a demon who killed their friend. She tells them it's a demon. They yell a bit, then calmly accept it, so that the film can move on quickly. In reality, if someone told you that your friend had been murdered by a demon, would you believe it? Unlikely. And later on, characters who have by now accepted that a fire demon is trying to kill them split up in an abandoned house. Have these trendy students never watched a horror movie in their lives?
Lon Time Dead is boring and annoying. Spend 90 minutes doing something remotely interesting instead.