A horror-comedy that's no magnum ‘Opus'
Every now and then, a movie comes along to remind you that making a movie is harder than it looks. 'Opus,' the feature debut of writer-director Mark Anthony Green, appears to have a lot going for it on the surface: an up-and-coming young actress in the lead, an admired older star as backup, a score by a pop music survivor. What it doesn't have is a story that makes a lick of narrative sense, characters a viewer cares about, laughs to match its jokes, chills to match its scares or an emotional connection to anything that happens on-screen. It isn't even a disaster; that, at least, might be interesting.
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