Movie Review: Attic Expeditions

I actually caught the movie Attic Expeditions on TV a few months ago. I was drawn in immediately, but sadly the movie was 20 minutes into it's ending. Naturally I had to rent the flick in order to get the grasp of it all. I figured renting it would help me to better understand it.

However, even after renting the movie, I still had to rewind it a few times to fully understand what the hell had happened. Yet, even after viewing the same flick over and over again, I was still left scratching my mop top.

The Plot:
 
Trevor Blackburn awakes in a hospital unaware of why he is there, or what is going on. He wakes up in the middle of a surgery, and oddly enough the doctors are able to calm him down enough to where they are able to go forward with the surgery.

When he awakens, he discovers that he had been in a coma for 4 years after the surgery. He is baffled by this, and does not recall anything in his life. He is told though by Dr. Ek, that the reason he was in the hospital was because he murdered his fiance in a ritualistic fashion. He recalls none of this, and seems to think that it is not of his personality to do something like this.

Oddly enough, he accepts it.
 
Dr.Ek transfers Trevor from the hospital into a halfway house type home called House Of Love. Here Trevor meets with other patients who are allegedly mental. A guy named Douglas (played by Seth Green) who seems pretty normal, a gal names Amy who draws the same picture with crayons over and over again, an older man named Ronald who expresses a multiple personality through a hand puppet he carried everywhere with him, and a girl named Liz who thinks that if she stops writing on her typewriter the worlds existence will end.

Trevor moves in, and odd unexplained things begin to occur... but they are so confusing, even you won't be able to understand them; let alone Trevor. Rooms transform into other rooms, time seems to alter, events happen that make no sense, and time warps seem to be present in there, somewhere... I think. (Yeah, its that confusing).

Trevor was told in the beginning of the movie that he killed his fiance, yet she suddenly makes a magical appearance and rises from the dead. I got really frigging lost during scenes with her in it. But from what I did get, she was back in spirit form to get back some magick book that Trevor possess somewhere. (You never do physically see this book though).

While all of this is going on Dr. Ek has been watching and studying Trevors behavior. It makes you wonder if he has something to do with the way Trevor is thinking. If he is some sort of scientific guinea pig?

You will see at the end though. The end does make semi sense, although it makes little to no sense, you sort of have to re-watch the flick in order to 'get it'.

The characters themselves are what draws you in really, as they each bring something interesting to the table with each scene they are in.

The movie is interesting, because just as it is playing out one scene, the entire atmosphere will jump into another one. Trevor will be in one room one minute, and suddenly transported into another one with an entire different scene. What confused me about this was how he just accepted this as normal, and would go on like everything is normal.

What sucked about it though was the fact that none of it made sense, and as a viewer you are left with tons of questions on why a scene that happened actually did happen. You are left wondering if Trevor is really crazy, or if the house itself is causing these things to occur. I was stumped honestly, on whether or not Attic Expeditions was a haunted house flick, or a psychological horror.

Other scenes pop up in the movie that are absolutely out of this world. Yet still... you are drawn to the movie, only because you are left thinking that the ending will piece together the entire plot, and give it a good finish. Only it never does. It gets even more bizarre and confusing... so much so that you yourself start to fidget and feel a bit insane.

For me the story jumps too quickly and too often for it to make any sense, or weave in together correctly. It was fun, sort of like walking through a carnivals fun house. The visuals were pretty cool, and the music that played in the background definitely added to the whole feeling of insanity that the movies main goal was.

Insanity. Definitely do not watch this one under the influence of anything. It begins to screw with your own mind. .

Overall:
 
I liked it, even though it left me feeling totally confused and lost at times, I was able to connect with each of the characters, and gave me a sense of what being insane may look/feel like. Pretty scary.

I just wished that they would of worked out a better plot. Everything else was pretty cool, except for the way they weaved the story together... a lot of loose strings.
 
Age Recommendation:
 
There is full nudity in Attic Expeditions. There are also a few raunchy sex scenes that young children should not be seeing. I recommend this one to those 18+. It is a good flick, even with the major confusion fest, it's still worth a rent in my opinion.