Hold Your Breath

2012

1h 27m

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4.2/10

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There is an old wives tale that you should hold your breath when passing by a cemetery because an evil spirit rejected by both heaven and hell can get inside of you when you inhale. Somewhere in a carload of college kids on holiday doesn't follow the rules when driving by a graveyard, allowing a spirit of a recently executed serial killer to get inside him/her to begin a killing spree of body-jumping carnage.

Directors

Jared Cohn

Writers

Kenny Zinn(writer by)

Geoff Meed(writer by)

Stars

Katrina Bowden

Randy Wayne

Erin Marie Hogan

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Jerry

Johnny

Natasha

McBride

Young McBride

Jordan Pratt-Thatcher

Heath

Park Ranger Lewis

Burly Guard

Warden Wilkes

Tony

Kyle

Samantha

Van Hausen

Woman With Scar

Scar Woman's Sister

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Michael Sadler

Victim's Family Member

Quillian Hightower

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Jared Cohn

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Kenny Zinn(writer by)

Geoff Meed(writer by)

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7/10

**_‘B’ horror in the SoCal wilderness delivers the goods_** Seven friends from high school reunite a couple years later for a camping trip in the arid high country north of Los Angeles. Unfortunately, they pass a rural graveyard on the wrong day with horrifying results. "Hold Your Breath" (2012) is basically cabin-in-the-woods horror except that the protagonists are camping out. It combines elements of “Shocker,” “Doom Asylum,” “Death Tunnel” and various low-budget backwoods brutality flicks, such as “Desecrated” (which debuted three years later). While the actors who play Warden Wilkes and Van Hausen (the serial-killer) ham it up, the rest of the cast play it serious and realistic, for the most part. There’s some R-rated gore in the manner of the prologue of “Ghost Ship” and one sex sequence with nudity (just a heads up). Critics argue that there’s bad writing and plot holes, but that’s not true. Everything makes sense once you put the pieces together (that is, makes sense as much as paranormal mumbo jumbo CAN make sense). It’s certainly better thought-out than the gobbledygook in the comparatively lame "The Hollow," "The Night Before Halloween," "Neverknock" and “Stickman.” Erin Marie Hogan stands out on the female front as Natasha while brunette Lisa Younger (Samantha) and blonde Katrina Bowden (Jerry) are also notable. Devanny Pinn is featured in an early bit part as the woman with a scarred face. There are a few noteworthy songs on the soundtrack, including “Fire and Brimstone (Hold Your Breath)” by Chris Cano, sung by Jaymie Valentine, and “Freak” by The Maension. “Vote For Me” by Straight Jackitt is quite good too. All are available to listen to on Youtube. This was made by The Asylum, a company notorious for releasing cheap knockoffs of major releases to steal some of their thunder. The company has certainly put out some dreck (like "30,000 Leagues Under the Sea" and "Mega Piranha"), but they can also surprise you with some worthy low-budget stuff (such as "The Land That Time Forgot,” "Grimm's Snow White" and "6 Guns"). “Hold Your Breath” ranks with the latter, if you can forgive the cartoonish CGI fire. The movie runs 1 hour, 28 minutes, and was shot at a movie ranch in Agua Dulce, which is a 55-minute drive north of Los Angeles, as well as Linda Vista Hospital back in the city. GRADE: B

Wuchak11 May, 2024