Sinister Squad

Sinister Squad

A slight setback of surpassing the Asylum’s mockbuster policy is their need to leverage on the coattails of franchise superhero movie business of Marvel and DC for instance. Jeremy M Inman, the writer-director states he had an inspiration to focus instead on stunned readers who, instead of using popular superheroes, would use literary, fairytale and fantasy characters that are in public domain. This is in regard to the Asylums movie entitled as Avengers Grimm that was a copy of Avengers.

The movie was intended to be a poorly copied version of Avengers but in the end, it turned out to be a poor excuse to make suicide squad. It is perhaps closest to it at least in spirit and a few characters of it the British smut epic League of Frankenstein uncut but without the porn in it’s title. Asylum has once again lowered their standards when it comes to acting and production but even the trailer for LOF looks better on the fight/effects scenes.

So, Alice, or rather Christina Licciardi, who was somewhat affected by the most recent Disney retelling of Lewis Carroll, takes on the role of Amanda Waller in this universe where she had Goldilocks (Lindsay Sawyer), who was armed with guns, a shooting’ quiet Not-So-Pied Piper (Isaac Reyes) and Tweedledee-dum (Aaron Moses) as part of a krewe to capture mythic evildoers who had entered our reality, a lackluster warehouse district. In the first film, the Jokerelnin looking Rumpelstiltskin(Johnny Rey) shattered a magic mirror that allowed these monsters into the modern realm.

The plot doesn’t merit much concern this time, like a novice with a drug problem, he uses the mirror frame to achieve something that is unclear. In Avengers Grimm, Casper Van Dien a bigger name than anyone cast here was Rumpelstiltskin; it says something when your leading man is several cuts down from Caspar Van Dien. Alice and Rump’s showdowns have an overarching antagonist whose name is Death and who can be considered the villain of this silent movie. To further a specific purpose, Death sends his masked henchmen to Alice’s concrete bunker in the hope of locating his scythe.

Alice is forced to ally with the villain and the other captured creepies Talia A Davis as Queen of Hearts, Trae Ireland as Bluebeard, Joseph Michael Harris as Big Bad Wolf and a Depp’s glitter-bearded druggie Hatter, Randall Yarbrough, in order to fight off the hordes, as well as the troublemaker ‘cannibal witch’ Carabosse, played by Fiona Rene. There’s something utterly wrong about the way she looks, with her doll-like wide eyes and plastic fangs: it’s as if she came out of some inane horror movie.

And yet she is completely devoted to playing nuts. Other so-called ‘reinventions’ are simply retardation in the form of urban fantasy (Bluebeard’s a huge black serial killer who has a gaggle of black female victims whose souls he keeps inside his knives, which he calls his ‘wives’). Gigantic expectations are only to be met with disappointment as much of the movie is consumed by close-up shots of actors’ faces making exaggerated expressions as they say meaningless words, the drab and shrunken nature of the locations does not help in creating a mood (and truth be told, we’re sick of this damn warehouse) and the CGI scenes are abysmal.

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