Hold Your Breath

2/3/2021

Decent watch, could watch again, but can't recommend outside of a Bad Movie Night. This is, when it comes to it, a horrible version of "Fallen", so go watch that instead. However, this movie is a lot more fun, with some really bad cg and over emphasized drama. Katrina Bowden ("Tucker and Dale vs Evil") is by far the best acting in this, with Marie Ann Hogan a show stealing second. While an evil body hopping ghost sounds cool, the execution has to be done correctly with the appropriate amount of gravitas and this movie just fails across the board in so many ways. The lines, the fighting, the effects are all bad, but the cast manage to pull off a somewhat endearing dynamic and the journey is just good enough that I would sit through it and laugh at it all again.

5/11/2024

**_‘B’ horror in the SoCal wilderness delivers the goods_** Seven friends from high school reunite a couple years later for a camping trip in the arid high country north of Los Angeles. Unfortunately, they pass a rural graveyard on the wrong day with horrifying results. "Hold Your Breath" (2012) is basically cabin-in-the-woods horror except that the protagonists are camping out. It combines elements of “Shocker,” “Doom Asylum,” “Death Tunnel” and various low-budget backwoods brutality flicks, such as “Desecrated” (which debuted three years later). While the actors who play Warden Wilkes and Van Hausen (the serial-killer) ham it up, the rest of the cast play it serious and realistic, for the most part. There’s some R-rated gore in the manner of the prologue of “Ghost Ship” and one sex