PINWHEEL is a dreary torture porn wannabe filmed in the wilds of Connecticut. The film has a lot of back story but none of it is very interesting and the complexity just seems to be included in order to pad out the running time to an unreasonable length. It's mainly about chained-up captives being attacked by a masked psychopath. The opening scene of some poor sap having their eyeball extracted by said psycho shows you exactly what kind of film this is going to be.
The rest simply isn't very appealing, and it's an ugly-looking film to boot with a nasty red filter at times which gives it a garish look. The storyline is predictable and the lack of a single sympathetic character means that the whole thing is nothing more than a waste of time.
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Leofwine_draca13 January 2018
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nogodnomasters2 July 2017When Riley's (Julie Ann Dawson) dad goes missing, she leaves her near acting career in LA to return to her small unnamed town. (Filmed Middletown, Conn.) Here she meets Eric (Darren O'Brien) an ambitious young man who has worked and clawed his way up the ladder to daytime bartender. She stays with Uncle Jacob (Jeffrey Alan Solomon) while they sort things out. Jacob has rented a room to Jonathan (Buck Biestek) a man who is writing a story on the "cursed carnival" that was started in this town, a carnival that her dad had belonged. The barn houses six carnival employees of which we only see Ivan (Ron Celentano) a large unkempt mute. Jonathan thinks something evil is going on.
For some reason movie makers think we need a great back story for a slasher film. Actually we just need good characters and memorable scenes. This film had neither and in fact didn't have a great back story. Outside of Larry (Mark Resnik) the creepy convenience store attendant, there wasn't one convincing line read. The sound track was amiss in most of the scenes. I am not sure why they saved the metal music for the drive away scene when it would have served better during a kill scene. Some decent background carnival scenes would have gone a long way.
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vexer63 February 2020Screw the haters, this was a nice tense wince-inducing horror film.