Everything was terrible. The acting. The FX. There's nonstop narration that's just terrible. Don't waste your time.
High Voltage
2018
Action / Horror / Music / Sci-Fi / Thriller
High Voltage
2018
Action / Horror / Music / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Plot summary
An emerging rock band, managed by industry vet Jimmy Kleen (Arquette),strike a deal with record executive Rick Roland (Wilson). Things take a sinister turn when the band's lead singer, Rachel (Gonino),and her mother, Barb (Reeves) are struck by lightning and killed. Rachel is brought back to life, but she is different than before. Lightning courses through her veins and she uses her new strange electrical powers to drain the life from men, turning it into electrifying stage performances, but just how far are the band willing to go to make it?
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Couldn't even get halfway through
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This movie has several titles, including "Hollow Body", "Lightening Strike" and "High Voltage". That's almost always a bad sign, that they are selling the thing to several streaming services trying to find the widest audience.
So a couple of party crashing musicians crash the party of a washed up rock star, when they all discover a young female talent who has something. So they form a band. However, after a gig goes badly, she goes home with her stage mom, when they are struck by lightening.
They shy girl suddenly takes on her mom's bad tendencies, where she proceeds to kill people by frying them. The rest of her band kind of knows what's going on, but they keep going along with it anyway. After some misadventures, they go to the big climax... which is resolved with a voice over.
Come to think, a lot of things involved voice overs where a scene would have been better. Important rule of story telling- Show, don't tell!
David Arquette is pretty good as the narrator/lead. The other actors are trying, I guess, but the action is slow.
Rock'n'roll is here to slay
Burgeoning rock singer Rachel (a strong and smoldering portrayal by the gorgeous Allie Gonino) gets struck and killed by a bolt of lightning. Rachel returns to life as an insanely hot, confident, and desirable super rock babe with a mesmerizing stage presence. However, Rachel now also possesses deadly electrical powers and needs to drain energy from men on a regular basis to keep herself alive.
Writer/director Alex Keledjian relates the enjoyably loopy story at a constant pace, nicely captures the seedy decadence of the rock music world, maintains a generally serious tone throughout, and tops things off with an amusing sense of self-mocking humor. David Arquette has a ball with his juicy role as the faded and cynical 80's one hit wonder rock god who becomes the manager of Rachel's band, Ryan Donowho does well as nice guy guitarist and songwriter Scott, and Luke Wilson lends sturdy support as sleazy record company executive Rick. The songs are really catchy and tuneful. Dangerously seductive vampire-ish succubus Rachel manages to be both sexy and scary in equal measure. Cameron Duncan's sharp widescreen cinematography provides an impressive stylish look. A cool flick.