By Philip Dorsey Iglauer
Cars are nearly as dangerous as musical instruments in "Cello," billed as this summer's last silver screen scream.
Where usually character development or plot is used to thrill or spook, the summer's horror flick finale tries to invoke screams through deafening bursts of horror movie music by Lee Han-na. Though the some scenes caused a jolt, or were at times shocking, genuine horror movie shrieks never came.
In the not-so-scary "Cello," evil seems to lack a will to kill, because aside from a tenuous revenge motive, the murdering musical instrument is pretty much without a purpose. Yes, it is true. In the horror movies it shouldn't really matter, but this one took too many liberties with the genre.
"Cello" is the unintentional third in this Summer's shock-horror trinity of possessed inanimate objects _ "Red Shoes" and "Wig" "Scary Hair" being the other two _ only this one was a bit disappointing.
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