The Deaths of Ian Stone

I usually don't write user comments on IMDb, but this is one movie that I just had to steer people away from. It's dreadfully boring, unimaginative, absolutely one-dimensional and utterly devastating to your movie morning/afternoon/night/dawn (pick your choice). I kept on praying that the film roll get cut off or something so that I could demand my money back and get out of the theater. I won't make any spoilers, since there may well be those of you who wish to see before making judgements (although I don't recommend it). To make a comparison, to me it felt like a sordid mixture of Buffy inside Dark City kicking it out with Matrix wannabes. (No offence intended to either Dark City or Matrix, the former of which I consider a cult classic in its own right and the latter which I hold as entertainable.) The central characters are hardly given any development, cliché themes pop out of nowhere, and the villains wearing shiny shiny plastic clothes and makeup that gives them the "spacemen" suit image and "I'm a scrunched-up scary monster"...there are B-movies that are fun to enjoy, and there are B-movies that simply seem dying to brand themselves with the "F" grade. Needless to say, this one belongs to the latter. Don't watch this movie unless you're drunk alone at home and bored to death. ...I want my money back.

Ian Stone (Mike Vogal) seems to by dieing horrific deaths only to inexplicably be alive again, albeit in different versions of his life. The only constant person is him, of course, his love interest, Jenny (Christina Cola) & mysterious Medea (Jaime Murray from "Dexter"). Interesting premise for a film I thought, but the film ultimately fails by tipping it's hat way too early erasing the mysterious element to the movie and replacing it with a generic creature horror flick. Which I'd be fine with. But the film just gets so silly and matrix-lite that I had no recourse, save to merely roll my eyes and imagine a better film that could've been. My Grade: D+ DVD Extras: 6 censored Miss Horrorfest 2007 contest Webisodes (totaling 19 and a half minutes of total uselessness); Trailers for "The Eye" remake, "Wristcutters: a love story"; and Promos for Fear.net, Horrorfest 2008, & After Dark: 8 Films to Die for

I wanted this movie to blow my socks off, but the truth of the matter is that apart from borrowing certain ideas from a multitude of movies it was pretty much crap. For one thing, the plot was weak. The effects looked pretty good, but at the end of the day, more than a couple of cool ghostly effects are needed to make a movie a good one. There was practically no character development, legend, or suspense really. It had no climax, and came off as a glorified love story at the end of the day. This movie is, in my opinion, nothing more than background noise if there's nothing better on TV, or if everything else in the video store has been rented. If you're looking for a good story that this movie has borrowed from, check out Dark City instead. It's a hell of a lot better.

There was someone who said this movie is not even worth a watch but I completely disagree. The idea for this movie is pretty unique and it does not look like a carbon copy much like most other movies are these days. The first half hour is pretty interesting, the rest of the movie is average, but I still love the uniqueness this movie brings. I believe it is completely worth watching. Although I do agree with the previous comments about the costumes toward the end shiny plastic/leather suits did take me a bit out of the movie, if it wasn't for that Id have nothing bad to say at all about the movie.

I usually don't write user comments on IMDb, but this is one movie that I just had to steer people away from. It's dreadfully boring, unimaginative, absolutely one-dimensional and utterly devastating to your movie morning/afternoon/night/dawn (pick your choice). I kept on praying that the film roll get cut off or something so that I could demand my money back and get out of the theater. I won't make any spoilers, since there may well be those of you who wish to see before making judgements (although I don't recommend it). To make a comparison, to me it felt like a sordid mixture of Buffy inside Dark City kicking it out with Matrix wannabes. (No offence intended to either Dark City or Matrix, the former of which I consider a cult classic in its own right and the latter which I hold as entertainable.) The central characters are hardly given any development, cliché themes pop out of nowhere, and the villains wearing shiny shiny plastic clothes and makeup that gives them the "spacemen" suit image and "I'm a scrunched-up scary monster"...there are B-movies that are fun to enjoy, and there are B-movies that simply seem dying to brand themselves with the "F" grade. Needless to say, this one belongs to the latter. Don't watch this movie unless you're drunk alone at home and bored to death. ...I want my money back.

"The Deaths of Ian Stone" tells the story of an unfortunate young hockey player,who mysteriously encounters a creature late one night and then is thrown into the path of an oncoming train.The next day,he wakes up like nothing even happened,but in a different corporate life.He's quickly murdered again by supernatural presence.It turns out the creatures are Harvesters,beings that live on the fear and pain that humans associate with dying."The Deaths of Ian Stone" plays like an uneven mix of "Matrix","Groundhog Day" and "Jacob's Ladder".The script offers few surprises and a lot of annoying CGI-effects.The premise is certainly fresh,but the lack of suspense is hard to forgive.There is only a little bit of gore and the climax is downright stupid.I'm fed up with modern horror films that try to scare me with laughable CGI-creatures.Unfortunately "The Deaths of Ian Stone" suffers too much from obnoxious computer generated imagery.4 out of 10.