Very best movie i ever watch

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Originality is definitely not Dead Mary's strongest suit, the film borrowing heavily from seminal horror classic The Evil Dead, utilising the well-worn urban legend of Bloody Mary (albeit with a slight name tweak) to kick off its supernatural activity, after which it attempts to mimic the atmosphere of paranoia and mistrust from John Carpenter's The Thing. Thankfully, despite its derivative nature, the film still manages to be quite an unsettling experience at times, fledgling director Robert Wilson handling the mounting tension with aplomb and his likable cast giving strong performances.Wilson takes a slow-burn approach to proceedings, introducing his principle characters at leisure, giving each a potted history so as to help define their personalities: Matt (Jefferson Brown) is scared of commitment, and has chosen the weekend to break up (again) with his understandably irritated girlfriend Kim (Dominique Swain); love-rat Dash (Michael Majeski) has a track record of cheating on his doormat of a wife, Amber (Reagan Pasternak); Baker (Steven McCarthy) is in a new relationship with the much younger Lily (Maggie Castle), but has been carrying on a secret affair with one of the other women; Eve (Marie-Josée Colburn), on the other hand, only has relationships with married men. Once these characters have been established, it's on with the spookiness, the friends daring each other to invoke the spirit of legendary witch Dead Mary by saying her name three times in front of a mirror. No prizes for guessing that they are successful, Mary's spirit possessing them one by one, turning them into bloodthirsty killers.Although Dead Mary's premise presents plenty of opportunity for frantic scenes of gore and cheap scares, a measured and rather reserved approach is maintained throughout, Wilson preferring to rely on atmosphere and the suggestion of nastiness to disturb his viewer rather than drenching them in OTT splatter and causing them to have heart attacks. As much as I enjoy a well executed shock and good bloodbath, I have to admit that the director's deliberate style is refreshingly different and surprisingly effective, delivering more than its fair share of decent chills. Where the film does fall down slightly is in the finer details of its story, with some elements definitely requiring further explanation, and in the progression of its characters, who have little problem in accepting the bizarre nature of their situation and are quick to react accordingly. If it was me, I'm not so sure that I would find it as easy to dismember and burn my closest friends.6.5 out of 10, rounded up to 7 for IMDb.

Boring, Boring, Boring. Nothing scary, no entertaining idea, no sense of expectation for anything to happen, and the characters were not remarkable at all. It's a silly movie that has no single element of attraction whatsoever. Even the idea of mistrust between the characters after they got possessed by the evil spirit, has already been used in much better way in "the thing". Not to mention that the evil spirit that possesses them is not known at all. We don't know what's the original shape of this evil thing, where did it come from and what is the purpose of its possession of their bodies!!!!!!!!!!!!! And the link between the game of bloody mary and what happens next is just in total vain because there is no connection between the story of bloody mary and what happens next. Probably if the idea of the bloody mary story was invested to the end, the movie would have ended to be pretty much better than the current one.To describe it in few words: it's just like clouds in the coffee.

This movie was a disappointment on several different levels. As we first start in it's obviously going to be yet another horror movie about beastly and possibly a couple of decent young people heading out to do stupid things in the woods and on that note it played through.Secondly, the title made us believe that it was somehow going to be yet another urban legend movie, this time based on the "Bloody Mary" theme. It did get to that as the young people went into the bathroom one by one and tried to invoke "Dead Mary". What I didn't understand was the commentary by other characters that they had done this before, seen her and it was ten shades of awful. Of course, that didn't stop them from mocking it and doing it again. However, this is never really revisited. No one goes back to say what happened before, what "Mary" does or how to stop her. Nor do we really even see "Mary" again.This event and the subsequent "horror" plots that follow have taken us 40 minutes into the movie. This is where the movie leaves the urban legend theme and starts trying, very badly, to emulate "The Living Dead" with evil demons now possessing (or maybe already possessing) various characters who get killed and come to life and taunt the others until they get wise and just burn the zombie/demons.It's hard to get the idea that these possessions are the result of Mary's invocation due to the fact that there are hints that the events were starting to happen before the film's events take place. Where is Ted for crying out loud? They asked it through 3/4 of the movie. He never shows up leading us to believe he met his demise before the opening credits but we never find out. The gas station and the woods are deserted of any other vacation goers which seems strange to the folk about 1/2 through the film. This also leads the audience to think that the events started before the youngsters did their "Mary" invocation.Forty minutes into the film, the horror action starts but it's disorganized, more gore than horror and doesn't follow any connected idea. There are too many ideas that aren't followed through, too many plots with no beginning and no end and the character development doesn't really lead anyone to care whether any of them live or not. Although it's my opinion, I wouldn't recommend this film.

This was on demand on Showtime and I got my wife, sister & her husband to watch it on a fluke as a stupid, funny, hopefully slightly scary movie. We were all shocked to find we really liked it. Decent acting, fairly good plot and we really liked that you never really saw 'Mary'. The end was a little weak, but all in all we really liked it.I'd recommend it for a late night when there's not much else to watch... it may surprise you too.Definitely way better than we expected.Watch it.