Twelve (Xii)
Stars: Steven Brand, Michael Leydon Campbell, Jeremy Fitzgerald, Emily Hardy, Vanessa Long, Mercedes McNab | Written and Directed by Michael A. Nickles
Leonard Karlsson, convicted for an unspecified crime against a minor is released on parole after five years. Horribly disfigured by other inmates whilst in prison, his face horribly mutilated, he seeks revenge on the 12 jurors who convicted him.
Michael Nickles’ film is a fairly standard horror flick, that while not reinventing the wheel, does come up with flashes of invention within a tried and tested formula.
The opening credits deal with both Karlsson’s crime, conviction and the attack on his person. Glitchy, stylistic, it never specifies exactly what he was accused of, or even if he was guilty. A character later refers to him as a “baby fucker”, but none of the jurors ever discuss the case. It’s a canny decision, preventing unneccesary exposition and...
Stars: Steven Brand, Michael Leydon Campbell, Jeremy Fitzgerald, Emily Hardy, Vanessa Long, Mercedes McNab | Written and Directed by Michael A. Nickles
Leonard Karlsson, convicted for an unspecified crime against a minor is released on parole after five years. Horribly disfigured by other inmates whilst in prison, his face horribly mutilated, he seeks revenge on the 12 jurors who convicted him.
Michael Nickles’ film is a fairly standard horror flick, that while not reinventing the wheel, does come up with flashes of invention within a tried and tested formula.
The opening credits deal with both Karlsson’s crime, conviction and the attack on his person. Glitchy, stylistic, it never specifies exactly what he was accused of, or even if he was guilty. A character later refers to him as a “baby fucker”, but none of the jurors ever discuss the case. It’s a canny decision, preventing unneccesary exposition and...
- 9/27/2010
- by Sarah
- Nerdly
An opening montage sets up the plot of Twelve (aka Xii), although not in a particularly substantial or satisfying way. Leonard Karlsson is a man convicted (rightfully or wrongly) of an unspecified crime involving children and, whilst in prison, his face is mutilated by fellow inmates. Upon release Leonard decides to kidnap and skin the faces of the twelve jurors who sealed his fate, replicating the torture he received.
After the somewhat dark opening montage and credits the tone shifts to a happy ‘just married’ couple driving out of Vegas. Suddenly a truck pulls up alongside side them and a shotgun blast blows up the groom’s head. Splatter fans beware though as after this early scene the gorier sequences are held back until the final act. Lacking suspense or tension this sequence appears to be played for laughs and a minor amount of shock but the rest of the...
After the somewhat dark opening montage and credits the tone shifts to a happy ‘just married’ couple driving out of Vegas. Suddenly a truck pulls up alongside side them and a shotgun blast blows up the groom’s head. Splatter fans beware though as after this early scene the gorier sequences are held back until the final act. Lacking suspense or tension this sequence appears to be played for laughs and a minor amount of shock but the rest of the...
- 9/27/2010
- by Craig Skinner
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
VFX Shotgun blast to the head of actor Michael Campbell's head in Michael A. Nickles independent horror Xii.
I love the way this is set to such an upbeat tune, I'd love to see a whole horror movie set to ridiculously upbeat music.
If that little vfx shot has peaked your interest in the movie the synopsis is as follows: Claire Norris (Emily Hardy), a young waitress in a small-town diner, sat on a jury, along with eleven others and listened to the evidence against a man accused of a crime against a minor. After days of difficult deliberation, the man - Leonard Karlsson, Jr.(Jeremy Fitzgerald) - was found guilty.
In prison, the "unspoken rule" regarding such crimes was enforced - Karlsson was beaten by the other prisoners to within an inch of his life, his face severely disfigured as a result. Now out of prison, Karlsson returns...
I love the way this is set to such an upbeat tune, I'd love to see a whole horror movie set to ridiculously upbeat music.
If that little vfx shot has peaked your interest in the movie the synopsis is as follows: Claire Norris (Emily Hardy), a young waitress in a small-town diner, sat on a jury, along with eleven others and listened to the evidence against a man accused of a crime against a minor. After days of difficult deliberation, the man - Leonard Karlsson, Jr.(Jeremy Fitzgerald) - was found guilty.
In prison, the "unspoken rule" regarding such crimes was enforced - Karlsson was beaten by the other prisoners to within an inch of his life, his face severely disfigured as a result. Now out of prison, Karlsson returns...
- 10/15/2009
- by Leigh
- Latemag.com/film
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