Stitches Movie Review

Stitches
                               

Stitches in a British comedy horror movie released in 2012. This film is written by Conor McMahon and David O'Brien and directed by Conor McMahon. The main characters of the movie Stitches are played by Ross Noble, Tommy Knight, Shane Murray-Corcoran, Gemma-Leah Devereux, Thommas Kane Byrnes and Eoghan McQuinn. This movie has the use of the dark humor, like what we saw in the movie The Cabin In The Woods. 

Stitches is about a clown who dies accidentally by the prank of some kids and a few years later, comes back to take his revenge.

A scene from the movie Stitches

Plot:

The movie Stitches starts with a clown named ‘Stitches’ having sex with a lady in his cabin. Suddenly an alarm reminds him of a party which he is supposed to attend. So he dashes to the party.

That party was the birthday party of a small boy named Tom. Tom and his friends are having a good time in Tom’s house before Stitches arrives. Stitches reaches there and takes his fees from Tom’s mother in advance, before he even enters the house.

Now, Stitches starts his performance to the children. He is the worst clown ever, considering his performance and behavior. On the other hand, the kids keep interrupting and humiliating him at each of his attempts to entertain the children. Suddenly, a boy, a friend of Tom tries to pull a prank on Stitches by tying his shoelaces together. But this goes horribly wrong, and the accident causes Stitches’ death.

Naturally, the children become scared and sad, specially Tom. From his tree-house, he sees the funeral of Stitches with a telescope. Later on that night, he visits Stitches’ grave to pay his respects. But following some sounds, Tom goes to a nearby house where a group of clowns are performing some special rituals for Stitches. The group catches him, but then leaves him unharmed.

Six years have passed. Tom and his friends are now teens and go to the same school. Tom has grown as a shy boy, who is often bullied by his classmates. His birthday is coming soon, and suddenly he starts hallucinating about Stitches, both in his home and in his school.

Tom’s parents are going to be away at the time of his birthday, so he plans to have a very small birthday party that will include only his very close friends. But one of his friends spreads the words out, so his birthday party becomes a big party containing a good number of teens and all of them, who were there at the time of Stitches’ death.

A copy of the invitation letter of Tom’s party flies to Stitches’ grave. At the eve of Tom’s birthday, Stitches rises from his grave and heads to Tom’s party to seek his revenge.

He manages to hide at the house and starts killing Tom’s friends in a way that is related to how each of them humiliated Stitches before his death. He manages to kill a few of them before anyone notices. But then Tom sees him and wants to alarm everyone about his presence.

At first, his friends don’t believe him. But when they do, its already late and Stitches has taken the lives of a few teens. Only Tom, His childhood crush and another friend of his is alive from that party of six years ago. They must run for their lives while Stitches is chasing them.

They also realize, to stay alive, they must find a way to kill Stitches.

My review about the movie Stitches:

First of all, I didn’t like Stitches at all. It felt like I’ve totally wasted my time by watching it.

The plot of Stitches is peculiar and pointless. The screenplay and direction felt awful. IMDB lists this movie as a comedy/horror. But I haven’t found any comedy element in Stitches. I’m not sure if the director has made this movie in this way on purpose, may be it was supposed to be funny. Blame my sense of humor as much as you want, I totally failed to find the ‘fun’ part anywhere.

The acting of all the main characters of Stitches were good, and its surprising, comparing with all the other elements of this movie. The dialogues are ridiculous, specially the dialogues of Stitches. The lighting, camera works and the set designs were also not that bad.

The worst parts of the movie Stitches are its gore scenes. Those scenes look unnecessary and disgusting, with very bad special effect and make ups. Again, may be whose scenes were supposed to be funny, but not for me.

Considering the sexual content, bad language and gore scenes, Stitches is surely not a movie that you can consider watching with children.

So, finally, as I’ve written ago, this movie seemed a total waste of time for me. But surprisingly, Stitches has a little better than average IMDB rating of 5.7 (while I’m writing this review), so may be its me who is missing something here. But its not such a movie, which I want to watch second time to find the missing, pieces. My recommendation:  stay away from Stitches if you don’t want to waste your time.

Have you watched Stitches? How did you like it? If you have liked it, would you please care to share here what am I missing? There must be something wrong.

If you are interested,

Official movie website: http://www.stitchesmovie.com

IMDB link: Stitches IMDB

Wikipedia Link: Stitches Wiki
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