Don't Look Down (1998)

Don't Look Down starts off with two sisters being photographed on the edge of a huge drop. You know what will happen next, and the same can be said for the rest of the film.Some parts were eerie when you felt if might have a supernatural cause to it but the big finale was a complete cop out. A Saturday evening "thriller" in the vein of Murder She Wrote disguised as a Wes Craven horror film. Don't be fooled. I was bored throughout most of it and even a little bit angry at the end. The guy from Beverly Hills 90210 is in this for crying out loud. This is a terrible film which makes you wish the entire production team had fallen off that cliff.

*NO SPOILERS IN THIS SECTION*This movie was like something you'd see on the Lifetime TV network. Not really a horror movie at all as advertised on the rental box. I'm all for a good Lifetime TV movie every once in a while (woman in jeopardy and afflicted with psychological trauma trying to set things right while being stalked by some sort of unknown evil that you know is closing in on her...). It contains nothing to merit an R or even PG-13 rating and, actually, I'd be surprised if it didn't air on Lifetime at some point. Just know what you are getting.MAJOR SPOILER IN NEXT SECTION *BE WARNED*From the beginning I thought it had a Lifetime feel to it, and that suspicion was only confirmed at the end of the movie when you found out who the villain really was. Those evil husbands...

When I first started watching this film, I thought "oh no, not another low budget, waste of time", but actually I changed my mind after about ten minutes. It was a good story (although very predictable), but one that you have to watch right till the end, just to confirm what you have already figured out. However, I do have to say that although I predicted everything about this film, much to my dad and sisters' annoyance, I thought the ending was good.

Wes Craven's Don't Look Down (1998) on VHS? Okay. We found this rare nugget for sale on the internet for a mere four dollars and despite our previous review, decided to waste the money. This film is still as crappy as it was when it premiered on Halloween 1998. Scaled down to 89 minutes (aren't all television movies 93 minutes after they've been edited?) and boasting the traditional (what else?) unrated logo, this piece of garbage is destined to go down in the annuals of Shock Video Magazines as an even more embarrassing to Wes as his most current movie offerings. The traditional who-done-it with terrible acting, and an even worse storyline. This leaves us wondering, why would Wes put his name on this awful movie? The logical answer would have to be the obvious: money. Run from this mega-professional LP Speed video now!