I have long been a fan of 3-D movies. House of Wax, Return of the Creature From the Black Lagoon, Andy Warhol's Frankenstein, Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, Captain Eo, Friday the 13th Part 3. What can I tell you. I love them. I know it's a stupid gimmick, but who cares. They're fun.

Imagine my shock when I started thumbing through the Sundance catalog and discovered that they would be screening a 3-D horror film from Hong Kong. There was no way I was going to miss that. I even convinced Zboneman.com
album reviewer Kyle England to take the plunge with me.

Adding to the excitement, was the fact that The Park would be one of Sundance's midnight screenings. Those are always a blast.

The minute we sat down for the movie, you could feel the excitement in the air. The place was packed and everyone was laughing and having a good time as they donned their goofy 3-D glasses. Trust me when I tell you, that
excitement would slowly dissolve.

The Park takes place at an amusement park and opens with a terrible tragedy as a young girl falls to her death from a ferris wheel. Cut to years later, the now run down amusement park is said to be haunted, but this doesn't stop
a group of stupid teenagers from entering the premises to have a good time.

Most disappointingly the entire movie was not shot in 3-D. There are around five 3-D segments in the picture. A little "put glasses on" title card appears on the screen every so often, notifying the audience that it's time to throw the shades on. The 3-D effects were as weak as Utah beer. They're hardly effective, and very few items actually leapt from the screen.

The Park is also incredibly nonsensical even by a horror film's standards. It's choppy and has no flow at all. Of course, this would have all been fine had the film been scary or at least offered up heaping helpings of gore. Alas, The Park doesn't even offer that.

I will say "the so bad it's funny" dialogue worked it's charm once in a while, but not nearly enough to recommend this poor effort from well known
Asian film maker Andrew Lau (Internal Affairs).

I had high hopes for this movie. I was really looking forward to a good time, and save for the excitement before the film, and a couple of
scattershot laughs throughout, I was just bored. I didn't find the movie to be a complete waste of time (my friend Kyle would whole heartedly disagree with me), but it was one of the worst 3-D movies I've seen.