Stitches (I) (2012) 5.7
A clown comes back from the dead to haunt those who took his life during a fatal party mishap. Director:Conor McMahon |
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Stitches (I) (2012) 5.7
A clown comes back from the dead to haunt those who took his life during a fatal party mishap. Director:Conor McMahon |
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Ross Noble | ... | ||
Tommy Knight | ... | ||
Shane Murray-Corcoran | ... |
Vinny
(as Shane Murray Corcoran)
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Gemma-Leah Devereux | ... |
Kate
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Thommas Kane Byrnes | ... |
Bulger
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Eoghan McQuinn | ... |
Richie
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Roisin Barron | ... |
Sarah
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Hugh Mulhern | ... |
Paul
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Tommy Cullen | ... |
Dan
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Lorna Dempsey | ... |
Mary
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Jemma Curran | ... |
Jenny
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Ryan Burke | ... | ||
Valerie Spelman | ... |
Tom's Mum
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Kelianne Coughlan | ... |
Young Sarah
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Kevin Smith | ... |
Young Paul
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The clumsy and unfunny clown Richard "Stitches" Grindle goes to the birthday party of little Tom and the boy and his friends play a prank with Stitches, tying his shoelaces. Stitches slips, falls and dies. Six years later, Tom gives a birthday party for his friends at home and the clown revives to haunt the teenagers and revenge his death. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
If Peter Jackson had been from Ireland instead of New Zealand, Stitches is the movie he might have made first in place of Bad Taste. It's got the same dark humor, most of which falls flat but some of which hits the spot. There's the same gleeful gore, okay perhaps not quite as much as Bad Taste but close. The deaths are inventive and entertaining and the whole movie would have been improved by better editing, a better score and a bigger budget, just like Bad Taste.
The plot is basic slasher fare. Two parts Friday 13th part VI, One Part Nightmare on Elm Street, One part Stephen King's IT, but a dash of it's own originality thrown in as well. It's let down a little by some really odd pacing and editing choices that slow down the action where it should be building up. If you've seen enough low budget indies you'll probably know what I'm talking about, it's a fairly common amateur film problem.
Still, it's a damn good try and it's heart is in the right place. Regular folks will sit through this very bemused, or more likely turn it off after the first half hour, but horror aficionados will be at least entertained if not downright elated.