Very late in Rosewood Lane was an effective scene. While the death via cat-door was preposterous and foreshadowed (like everything other scene), it was still creepy and makes a good 30-seconds of film. Unfortunately, beyond that, what's left is an hour and half of dead-air.
Rosewood Lane was one of those movies that would only work as one of those half-hour TV horror anthology episodes and even then, it would only be a third-ranked show, like Monsters. As a feature length, it was just simply awful.
Inept writing, terribly predictable – including the enormously clichéd camera angles/set-ups and a wandering plot that never narrows down the viewer to what it's really about are all just the tip of the eye-sore this was. Further it was inconsistent, incoherent, unbelievable and it all led to an incredibly stupid ending that looked more like a deleted scene than the actual ending.
Dr. Sonny Blake (McGowan) and her distractingly puffed up lips decide to move from the big city to the burbs one year following her abusive dad's death. Immediately, she's warned to stay away from the paperboy, but that didn't last long. The obviously evil paper "boy" (real-life 29-year old Daniel Ross Owens) instantly begins his stalking of her.
We know he's "evil" because: #1 the old kook next door says to stay away, #2 he's got black eyes – literally and #3 because he's far too old to be delivering newspapers on a 13-year-old's bike.
At any rate, the stalking continues, some characters believe Sonny, some don't. Then they do, then they don't. Then the police look somewhat concerned, then not. Then they do again, but finally they don't believe her. And all the while he's in and out and on her house more often than she's there – but no one does/does not believe her.
See what I mean? This movie's all over the place; it opens ideas and then rapidly shoots them down. It makes attempts at foreshadowing and even though most of that works to the point of utter predictability, some of it doesn't.
If the movie ain't bad enough, you have to look at Rose's lips over and over, and they are hideous. Before you think I'm criticizing her from an outward appearance, I 100% believe she had to have botched plastic surgery. Oh, those ugly LA girls and idiot surgeons. The fantastic parody group: The Key of Awesome! did a, well, awesome job spoofing this with "Pump Up (Lips) Parody" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhC-S8ZErTE.
Side Note: Even though this is the reverse effect, I will never use the company: Two Men And a Truck because of the hilariously OVER product-placement in the first act. How much did they pay and why this movie of all films?
Rosewood Lane was one of those movies that would only work as one of those half-hour TV horror anthology episodes and even then, it would only be a third-ranked show, like Monsters. As a feature length, it was just simply awful.
Inept writing, terribly predictable – including the enormously clichéd camera angles/set-ups and a wandering plot that never narrows down the viewer to what it's really about are all just the tip of the eye-sore this was. Further it was inconsistent, incoherent, unbelievable and it all led to an incredibly stupid ending that looked more like a deleted scene than the actual ending.
Dr. Sonny Blake (McGowan) and her distractingly puffed up lips decide to move from the big city to the burbs one year following her abusive dad's death. Immediately, she's warned to stay away from the paperboy, but that didn't last long. The obviously evil paper "boy" (real-life 29-year old Daniel Ross Owens) instantly begins his stalking of her.
We know he's "evil" because: #1 the old kook next door says to stay away, #2 he's got black eyes – literally and #3 because he's far too old to be delivering newspapers on a 13-year-old's bike.
At any rate, the stalking continues, some characters believe Sonny, some don't. Then they do, then they don't. Then the police look somewhat concerned, then not. Then they do again, but finally they don't believe her. And all the while he's in and out and on her house more often than she's there – but no one does/does not believe her.
See what I mean? This movie's all over the place; it opens ideas and then rapidly shoots them down. It makes attempts at foreshadowing and even though most of that works to the point of utter predictability, some of it doesn't.
If the movie ain't bad enough, you have to look at Rose's lips over and over, and they are hideous. Before you think I'm criticizing her from an outward appearance, I 100% believe she had to have botched plastic surgery. Oh, those ugly LA girls and idiot surgeons. The fantastic parody group: The Key of Awesome! did a, well, awesome job spoofing this with "Pump Up (Lips) Parody" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhC-S8ZErTE.
Side Note: Even though this is the reverse effect, I will never use the company: Two Men And a Truck because of the hilariously OVER product-placement in the first act. How much did they pay and why this movie of all films?