Product Description

On an otherwise ordinary night the young Ian Stone encounters a mysterious creature and is forced into the path of an oncoming train. Rather than facing certain death Ian finds himself reborn into a new life that feels strangely familiar. After his second deathit becomes apparent that Ian is being hunted by an evil presence and will be forced to die every day until he can solve the mystery of his own life.System Requirements:Running Time: 88 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR/PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER Rating: R UPC: 031398226741 Manufacturer No: 22674

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7322 in DVD
• Brand: LION'S GATE ENTERTAINMENT
• Released on: 2008-03-18
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 87 minutes

Customer Reviews

Such a great beginning...
The Deaths of Ian Stone (Dario Piana, 2007)

I'm not a filmmaker myself, which may be why I consistently fail to understand it when I see a movie that starts out with such incredible promise and then fails utterly. The Deaths of Ian Stone is the most recent of these I've seen. For the first thirty minutes, I was absolutely thrilled. Then it went to pieces, and instead of making any attempt at recovery, just got steadily worse from there.

Ian Stone (The Sisterhod of the Traveling Pants' Mike Vogel), when we open, is a hockey player at a small college in what seems to be either Canada or America, though if so, it's a small town containing an incredible number of British expatriates. (Either that, or Vogel's character is an expat himself, though it's never mentioned.) After he blows the big game, he and his girlfriend Jenny (Casino Royale's Christina Cole) drive back to her place, exchange some deep, meaningful diagloue, then he heads home in a sudden rainstorm aswirl with ominous music. At a railroad crossing, he sees an injured man in the road. Going to help him proves fatal... until Ian wakes up from the nightmare. The first odd note comes a few seconds later, when we find out Jenny works in the same office-- and the two of them don't seem to know one another. Instead, Stone is living with sexy artist Medea (Dexter's Jaime Murray). What's going on? We have no clue.

And that's what makes the first half-hour (of which I just gave you about half) of this movie so great-- we have no idea what on earth is happening, but these characters are at least interesting enough that we want to find out. And, at this point, they're still quite well-acted, though both Vogel and Murray go off the rails about halfway through the movie. Once the plot is outlined and we know what's going on, this turns from a slightly surreal existential drama into a standard survival-horror affair, and not a particularly well-made one either. **

Die Another Day.This One Is Good
Michelle Phiefer may look back and regret doing Grease 2. Mike Vogel will not look back and regret doing The Deaths of Ian Stone. From the Texas Chainsaw Massacre to Cloverfield to this one, Vogel is paving his road on the acting landscape. He seems to be waiting for that one "big" role that will place him with the higher tier of action/horror stars. This was a good movie. The "love conquers all, young lovers" theme is never tired. It ran well through Ian's lives well . The newness of this story was a breath of fresh air. Plenty of action. Enough romance, though their could have been more. Mysteries revealed at just the right time. The special effects were very good.

You truly have to watch this one through to understand it all. Vogell posesses just enough vulnerabiltiy to pull off this starring role, in a genre that women have traditionally dominated as the victim/warrior/protagonist. His love interest was perfectly cast, being Stone's strength when he was weak. As much as I liked this movie, there was something missing. Maybe they should have spent a little more time on each life. I still give the movie a 3.5.

Not terrible not great but slightly better than the other offerings
from the Afterdark Horror Fest which reminds me of the so called "Masters of Horror" series. I thought that After dark was a better series. Borderland was taken from a real story, was pretty good. I just think a Horror Fest should be Horror-able. If you know what I mean.