Chronicle of the Raven

Starring:Gina Phillips, Faye Dunaway
Studio: Lions Gate
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
Product Description
Jennifer travels to Buenos Aires to claim inheritance of her recently deceased twin sister's house. Upon arrival, she is met by her grandmother who has cursed the family with a strange deadly illness that has taken the life of her parents, her sister and is now eating away at herself.

At night, Jennifer is haunted by sounds coming from a locked attic and dreams of a raven pecking at her flesh and removing her organs. Convince it is her grandmother's doing, she must fight to stay alive, destroy the evil, and free her family's souls from the curse.

DVD FEATURES

Full Screen

2.0 Dolby Surround

Writer/Director Commentary with Gina Philips and Faye Dunaway

Spanish Subtitles

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Running Time 90 Min

Format: DVD MOVIE

Average customer rating:

Sucky Von Suckerson
Faye Dunaway, that's about it....
Oddly effective horror drama
NICE HORROR MOVIE !!!!
Good Creepy Horror Mystery With Nice Bizarre Undercurrents

Chronicle of the Raven
Starring: Gina Phillips , and Faye Dunaway
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B0007XBM1Q
Release Date: 2005-05-31

Product Description

Jennifer travels to Buenos Aires to claim inheritance of her recently deceased twin sister's house. Upon arrival, she is met by her grandmother who has cursed the family with a strange deadly illness that has taken the life of her parents, her sister and is now eating away at herself.

At night, Jennifer is haunted by sounds coming from a locked attic and dreams of a raven pecking at her flesh and removing her organs. Convince it is her grandmother's doing, she must fight to stay alive, destroy the evil, and free her family's souls from the curse.

DVD FEATURES

Full Screen

2.0 Dolby Surround

Writer/Director Commentary with Gina Philips and Faye Dunaway

Spanish Subtitles

System Requirements:

Running Time 90 Min

Format: DVD MOVIE

Customer Reviews:

Sucky Von Suckerson.......2007-06-28

A grandmother sells the organs and souls of her family to demons that appear as birds so that she can be immortal. Suppose to be a horror, but the only thing scary about this lame movie is Faye Dunaways weird face after all her plastic surgery. What is she now, 123 years old?

Faye Dunaway, that's about it...........2007-03-19

I won't bore you with the plot writing, it's mainstream, and it's so convoluted it makes little to no sense. I will say that the photography was grand. The cinematography and camera angles were thoughtful and overtly artistic and pleasing. The film used puts one in mind of "Dolores Claiborne" in the way Taylor Hackford utilized the darker film in the more "depressive" scenes. Dunaway is superb, as usual. She's convincing and isn't given enough screen time. I'm surprised she took this film, to be honest, it doesn't give her much highlight. She's wonderful, the rest of the cast is so-so. This film shows that without a great foundation, the script, ANY film will flop. Run, don't walk, from this mix of words and sentences. There is no beginning and no end to this horribly written film.

Oddly effective horror drama.......2007-01-26

A no-name cast surrounds aging Faye Dunaway in "Chronicle of the Raven", a horror film that appears psychological in the beginning but shows as it unfolds that is it pretty mainstream stuff.

Dunaway is the aging matriarch residing in a South American mansion that granddaughter Jennifer (Gina Phillips) is determined to sell. After Jenny's twin sister (the owner) dies mysteriously, she moseys on down to Buenos Aires to inherit the place and sell it. Another aging relative, an aunt, and Granny Dunaway reside there. Granny doesn't want to give the place up.

Weird stuff begins happening during Jennifer's first night in the place. She begins having nightmares about a bird pecking away at her innards. Then she awakens to realistic dreams of being tied in bed while a raven chews on her guts.

The whole thing is an obvious paramour to the Prometheus legend -- Prometheus defied the gods by doing the people's duty and, for that, he was chained to the side of a mountain where an eagle would come every day and eat out his guts.

I thought the treatment kind of hokey when the flick opened. However, the atmospheric film noiry treatment inside the old house mated to the otherworldly characters, creaky floors and stairs, and oddball goings on, kept me involved from the beginning. It ganis a new more interesting dimension when an old man, a caretaker at the cemetary where Jenny's sister lies in state, comes calling and successfully tells Jennifer what's going on in her head at night.

"Chronicle of the Raven" won't go down as one of the great horror films of history but it has enough going on -- including a very sinister characterization by Dunaway -- that you'll stay with it to the end. The movie fits in the midrange of horror films and is good fare for a Thursday night at home with the TV.

NICE HORROR MOVIE !!!!.......2007-01-22

Shot entirely in Buenos Aires-Agentina (my natal city, though there's no actual clue to the fact unless you've been born there)with a mixed cast of american and argie actors, this is a very entertained horror flick in the vein of Poe's/Lovecraft's. In spite of being a typical b-movie with a central character played by a declining famous actress (Faye Dunaway) to up the ante a little, the plot is very good and will keep you on edge till the very (and utterly surprising) ending.The guy below who criticizes Duillio Marzio's accent and praises Niclas Pauls's has evidently never bothered to study a second language. I was amazed at this veteran argie actor's perfomance and apalled at Nicholas Pauls's. The picture is bright and sharp, the movie is superbly edited in a local studio by a young talent called Pablo Ratto, whose labor enhances the final result to no little amount. Picture is a refreshing 4:3, which us owners of conventional TVs are grateful for. Sound is clean and strong with a 5.1 option, unusual on this kind of budget films. There are some minor flaws to the sound and picture, though; dialogue goes noticeably louder during the last 2 chapters and picture shifts from color-saturated to somewhat washed down on some parts when the scenes change but I guess it'll be only me who'll notice that.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDABLE !!!

Good Creepy Horror Mystery With Nice Bizarre Undercurrents.......2006-02-12

Although in the first couple of minutes the obviously low budget of "Chronicle Of The Raven" (aka "Jennifer's Shadow") and the pitfalls it threatens to create threaten to derail the movie, it very quickly becomes so absorbing that any technical shortcomings are forgotten. A young woman played by Gina Phillips arrives in Argentina to claim the house willed to her by her recently deceased twin sister, dead of the same wasting/vitality-draining disease that seems to haunt much of the family like a curse and that previously claimed the twins's parents. Currently residing in the house are Phillips's estranged grandmother (played by Faye Dunaway), a housekeeper, and Phillips's aunt Emma, who's currently succumbing to the same malady. Phillips begins to exhibit what may be early signs of this ailment, but that may be the least of her worries, as coming with this 'family curse' seem to be all the trappings of hauntings and supernatural manifestations. The thrust of the movie is delving deeper and deeper into the strange and increasingly frightening nature of this bizarre bane. A great horror mystery similar in atmosphere to the original "Amityville Horror", "Trauma", "Seven Days To Live" and "The Omen", helped along by strong performances - especially Phillips and Hilda Bernard in a small but important role as her aunt Emma. Once again, the poor ol' raven - in the tradition of Poe, King, et al. - gets cast in a sinister role; it works well but just to be different couldn't somebody make a horror movie one of these days where a raven or bat or something gets to play a good guy, er, good critter? At least the little feathered fellow gets to star in some great tales, both written and filmed.

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