Crazy Eights (2006)

• Year: 2006
• Released: 31 Oct 2006
• Country: United States
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• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0470993/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/crazy_eights
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• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Horror
• Runtime: 80 min
• Writer: Dan De Luca, Jimi Jones, Ji-un Kwon
• Director: Jimi Jones
• Cast: Traci Lords, Frank Whaley, Dina Meyer
• Keywords: deja vu, stuffed animal,

	3.8/10
	16% – Critics
	16% – Audience

Crazy Eights Storyline

Between 1954 and 1976, a large number of children were submitted to behavior studies in the American South. When Brax Young dies, his childhood friends Jennifer Jones, Gina Conte, Father Lyle Dey, Wayne Morrison, Brent Sykes, and Beth Patterson reunite after 20 years. In Brax’s house they discover a letter asking them to search a time capsule from their childhood, and a map that indicates its location. They travel to Entonsburg and find a trunk with some objects and a skeleton hidden inside. Their discovery triggers traumatic recollections from their childhood with tragic consequences.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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An Incredibly Disjointed Film… Goes From Good to Worthless

Don’t read this unless you’ve already seen the film or don’t care, because I will be discussing parts at the end of the film.

A few days after a group of friends each begin having nightmares, they are alerted to the death of a friend they hadn’t really seen in twenty years. At the funeral, they are given a map to a time capsule. The capsule contains a shocking part of their past: a dead girl. The rest of the day involves unraveling their combined pasts that had gone long forgotten and trying to survive when their guilt comes back to haunt them.

What was the selling point for this film? I think for me it was the interesting plot synopsis (one of the few to not include zombies or cannibals or inbred family members) and Traci Lords (who played Gina Conte). Lords, as I’m sure you know, is known for her underage pornographic work… I also happen to really enjoy her musical career, which runs in the techno-industrial vein.

What works for this film: I thought the film was very well done. The scenery was great, the characters were enjoyable and the plot and dialog seemed to flow nicely. Some parts were going a bit slower than I’d like, but the general pacing was good and we were given hints and clues along the way to solve the puzzle (although whether or not the puzzle can be solved remains to be seen).

What doesn’t work: Although I liked the characters, I found them not easily distinguishable. Keeping names and faces straight took a little work, and due to the fact their backgrounds were secret we couldn’t know much about them: which really begs the question of what they actually recall about their pasts and how they grew up to be a respectable part of society. The big problem with this film, which actually really upset me, was how abrupt the ending was. I was enjoying the movie, I thought a good ending would make this one something worth recommending, and then it just dies leaving me with the feeling that I had just wasted the last 90 minutes of my life. If there was a point to the film, the ending ruined it. This is why I must rate it low, and have to hold myself back from rating it lower.

How to understand this film: I will try to defend the horrible ending, although it won’t be easy. We are told by the priest that “guilt leads to compassion”, and we know that when the group was younger they were being taught guilt. At the very end we see a flashback of the dead girl getting ready to enter the box. This leaves me with the impression that the hospital crew planted her there rather than the kids coming up with the idea, as they recall it. What happens in the present day is the conclusion of the experiment from 20 years ago — this was a way of teaching everyone guilt (20 years later). In order to go from guilt (thinking they killed the girl) to compassion, they must go through what the girl did to truly feel for her. Hence, the guilt is relieved through their own deaths.

If that’s the correct interpretation, or something similar, it still seems lacking — did we really need the girl to come back as a ghost? The supernatural element seems like it wasn’t really crucial if the point was to have them feel guilty rather than hunted. Either way, the ending is just too sudden. It’s good to leave a viewer with questions so they view it again, but this one just left me hollow and quite upset. If you can get money back, I’d want it back on this one. So, as you can probably tell, I’m not recommending this film despite the potential it clearly has. When it gets released on DVD, I have compassion for those who rent it (but I won’t let myself be feel guilty by suggesting it).

Bad pacing, subpar acting, and an unpolished script ruin a good idea

After twenty years apart, six friends rejoin to mourn the death of their childhood friend. At the estate settlement, they find a map that leads them to an old time capsule they buried long ago. Through their journey, they’re lead to an abandoned home with hidden secrets. . . that maybe out to kill them.

Of all the Horrorfest films of 2007, this was (for some reason) the only one that I was actually looking forward to. I never got around to watching it, probably due to it always being on the bottom of everyone’s ranking for the fest, but I finally forced myself to pick it up. Needless to say. . . I was disappointed. The story tries to play out like Stephen King’s It with the group of once-best friends brought together from their separation of time & distance and their attempt to answer mysteries of their past. It’s not a bad-looking film as the direction worked well in the settings. The cast (excluding Frank Whaley) was pretty bad, however, and definitely brought down the film a big notch. The script was very muddled and didn’t do well to keep our interest for even the short 80 minutes the film ran, which is sad because the story isn’t uninteresting. . . it’s just the execution of the story in a wider sense that ruined it. Personally, I think, had the script been polished, the ending been changed, and it been stretched beyond a minimal 80 minutes to a length that could’ve properly held the more complicated story, it might’ve done better as a good psychological thriller. Unfortunately, being contained to barely feature length made even the 80 minutes nearly unbearable and ruined any chance at any real explanation or intelligence to the film. Pass this one up for the superior films it tries to be, like Session 9.

Final verdict: 3/10. Not worth the time.

Messy Collection of Clichés

Between 1954 and 1976, a large number of children were submitted to behavior studies in the South of the USA. When Brax Young dies, his childhood friends Jennifer Jones (Dina Meyer), Gina Conte (Traci Lords), Father Lyle Dey (George Newbern), Wayne Morrison (Dan DeLuca), Brent Sykes (Frank Whaley) and Beth Patterson (Gabrielle Anwar) reunite after twenty years. While in Brax’s house, they discover a letter asking them to search a time capsule from their childhood and map indicating its location. They travel to Entonsburg and find a trunk with some objects and a skeleton hidden inside. Their discovery triggers traumatic recollections from their childhood with tragic consequences.

“Crazy Eights” is a messy collection of clichés, with a confused story about a government study that affects the subjects, proving that it was no harmless as promised to the families. The characters and situations are awfully developed, and the circumstances why the group becomes trapped in the abandoned house are ridiculous. Why should six people in a truck stop the car during the daylight to break in an abandoned house to seek directions? Further, the soundtrack is annoying. My vote is two.

Title (Brazil): “Lembranças Macabras” (“Macabre Recollections”)