Dark Signal (2016)
2/10
Awful acting
3 October 2022
What's the point of setting something in rural North Wales if your cast all have random accents from around the world? The worst is Joanna Ignaczewska, a Polish actress whose accent was all over the place. At the start it almost seemed like she was trying to do a Welsh accent really badly.

Joanna could barely speak or act; in fact at times it seemed like she was mentally challenged. When she tried to cry it looked like she was laughing. Her acting alone ruined this movie, but it wouldn't have been much good regardless.

The Italian woman, played by Cinzia Monreale, is not played particularly well, although I suspect the main problem there might have been the script.

Siwan Morris as the radio DJ is too over the top. She plays up this bad girl attitude with a cigarette hanging out of her mouth and dancing around, but looks uncomfortable and out of place doing it. It was reminiscent of a school girl acting for the first time in a drama classroom.

James Cosmo is the only member of the cast who did a great job, but a movie this bad can't be saved. I can't stress enough how bad Joanna is in this, she can barely talk and it's so jarring.

The story didn't make much sense. It couldn't decide whether it was a slasher or a ghost story. The jump scares were out of place, and since Joanna reacts to them, they seemed comical. The gory non-supernatural violence then created a confusing mix.

I didn't even watch it to the end. I got about 85% of the way through, which was far more than it deserved. I didn't care enough to find out what would happen.
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