The Veil (2005)

[Dr. Briggs]

I began to watch this one the other day; it's a very low-budget horror film, but one of the few I know of to be 2 and a half hours... basically the kind of film I want to make!

Unfortunately, so far "Veil" shows a LOT of technical inferiorities: the same actors play multiple characters and barely even attempt to disguise themselves, the direction/editing is choppy, the acting by the zombies is poor and the storyline seems a little confusing/aimless. I haven't finished it yet, but I have the feeling I'm gonna be disappointed.

[FreddysFingers]

I have a feeling that it was one of those movies where they wanted to make a movie to get some credit or publicity so they decided to make a "horror" movie since it's the easiest. Now, since it is horror I guess they assumed that it doesn't have to be good. In other words, they didn't go into this with full intentions.

[Dr. Briggs]

Have you seen The Veil or is that based on what I said alone? I dunno, it does look genuine in concept to me (you don't see many halfhearted horror films trying to go the "overtly bleak" route which "Veil" does), just pretty incoherent and thrown-together in places.

[FreddysFingers]

I haven't seen The Veil but I've seen enough movies that had a similar review. To me it seems like filmmakers are able to get away with making a bad movie if they market it or produce it as a horror movie. It's like horror is a scapegoat for making a bad movie.