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Now, this sounds rationally like a means to explain mental health impairment. However, let’s not be rational, as we are looking at a horror movie! What difference between eating a soul and devouring energy? It would seem to me a matter of semantics, and in 4 Dead Girls, the Nalusa Chito is a soul eater, the consumption of which makes him younger in appearance he is, therefore, an energy vampire.
As a film, we begin with a young lady, Becky (Bianca Lopez), clearly fearing for her life as she is stalked around the house by the ashen-faced Devlin Chito (Mike Campbell) the Nalusa Chito. His words seem familiar, as though he knows her rather than her being a random victim. She is virtually hysterical but pleads, saying she won’t do it again. It is too late, however, he cuts her wrist and then sucks her energy. He presses a blank fetish doll against her corpse, causing the corpse to vanish and the doll takes on her features.
So, story-wise there isn’t a huge amount to explain. He is hunting for food and (as Lori is studying mythology) we discover that the Nalusa Chito are shadow creatures (he vanishes into a black mist or shadow that looks just a bit too false on screen), stunned by the light who feed on evil women and are injured (or even killed) by the death of innocence. He intends to feed on the evil (Bianca and Pam) and corrupt the innocent (Lori and Lily). He wants a survivor to act as his new “property manager” replacing Becky.
There is an interesting moment when we see Lily’s disapproval of Lori’s sexuality and a subsequent discussion of gay marriage. From this, we also discover that Pam makes out that her parents are progressive but, in reality, her father is a homophobe. There was a shifting, through this scene, to the apparent characterization that, unfortunately, wasn’t utilized in the film. They could have taken this in an interesting direction and had Lily revealed to be classed as evil for her moralistic disapproval that verged on homophobia, but they didn’t. I also wondered, as her parents were dead, whether we’d get a twist of either sister having killed them (thus being evil) but that never happened either.
Ultimately, the film is very simple and straightforward. The tension we need isn’t built in (and the small area of the one story, three bedroom house doesn’t seem to be a big enough stage upon which to build the tension), and the gore level is too low to lift the film in other directions. The unusual creature type makes this marginally interesting, but the film is its own worst enemy. That said, there are worse flicks out there.
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