Saturday 23 September 2023

Pandemonium (3 Stars)


This is the 13th film in the Stuttgart Fantasy Film Festival.

There's a road accident on a mountain road. Nathan and Daniel think they've survived, but they haven't. They're both dead, and they find their bodies lying on the road. They think they're destined to live as ghosts, but then doorways to Heaven and Hell open. Daniel accepts that Hell is his destiny, but Nathan insists that he's worthy of Heaven, until a large monster forces him towards the doorway to Hell.

"Pandemonium" is another film that starts well but drifts off course. As long as we see Nathan and Daniel talking about their lives, the film is interesting. But after Daniel enters Hell we don't see him any more. We see Nathan's arrival in Hell, but when he examines the bodies on the ground he sees flashbacks of their lives and what they've done to deserve Hell. I found this irrelevant. The story should have concentrated on Nathan and Daniel.

The screenwriter/director obviously had some interesting ideas, but they weren't enough to fill the film, so he padded it with ideas of lesser quality.

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