Director: Daniel Zirilli. Writer: Dean Alexandrou. Starring: Hari Das Ahatefu, Dean Alexandrou . USA/Thailand. 1h 25m.
This looked like an interesting generic combination, time travel and parkour. While the movie serves up some impressive fighting and acrobatics it forgot to include a full plot and to employ at least one trained actor. It’s never going to be easy without a touch of talent but when physical abilities are sacrificed for acting then the film might struggle a little and this one struggles a lot, but it’s not all joyless.Continue reading Time Rush (2016)→
I initially found this while reviewing Hi and The Passenger and should have made it a triple bill then but failed to do so. It’s quite funny watching a horror movie on youtube that is a guy watching a movie on youtube. Basically man along at home watching TV and laughing along, hears a woman laugh with him, but he’s home alone. It’s a little creepy but it made less so buy the really loud and constant atmospheric music, cut that down and allow the laugh to actually be scary and it might be more effective. 4/10Continue reading 3 Horror Shorts, Laugh, Grin and Vienna waits for you→
This second installment from Fabrice to Wells the pics of very different style of storytelling from here cult classic the ordeal instead he takes a more sentimental and deeper psychological step in the look and feel of this film something he touched upon in the final 20 minutes or so of the ordeal seems to be extended and flourishes among the foliage of Thailand in this taught drama.Continue reading Vinyan (2008)→
Another addition of horror so soon! Yep I’m on a roll, and I found three more interesting horrors.
The Stairs
Director : ??? France. 2014 Duration: 3.46 Starting with some bleeding steps and flashing pictures of all those scary faces that usually make up the title of any modern Creepypasta, this short remains totally “typical” it soon cuts to the usual home alone with a mobile phone scene that 90% of all horror shorts seem to be exhausting these days, until the young man notices his front door open, after closing it, strange noises come from the bottom of the dark stairs ,and on investigating the lights go out… It’s spooky in a sense but not gripping or scary in the least, Rating: 1/10
Selfie
Director : Kantom Chantom and Pattakit. Thailand. 2015 Duration: 2.32 Just from the title I kinda guessed the ending of this short, and even if it is predictable and the end result is a bit tacky, without trying to give too much away, it looks like it’s been edited on Paint, but the jumpscare was done well and actually worked on me! So despite the dullness of this I have to give it some credit for the excellent editing. Rating:4/10
Playing with the devil
Director : Nick Stentzel. Starring : Rachel Frain, Balerie Trevherz, Jessica Hadlock USA. 2014 Based on a Japanese Ritual Hitori Kakurenbo, (One Man Tag) and using characters from the Screenplay “LETTERS” Written Damon Peoples. Duration: 7.09 First off I was confused and put off by all of the fucking rules, not really knowing what the Ritual entails and only getting little bits of information constantly throughout was off putting, maybe I should have read up about it first, but to make something like this accessible i think a lot more could have been done to educate the viewer but don’t let this distract you as it’s still an awesome horror short, that does actually have a few frights. Three sisters decide to partake in this ritual and until things go terribly wrong and the movie soon turns into a rollercoaster of unsettling frights. The acting from the three young ladies is faultless and it the quality of the film itself is sound. I just felt that every few seconds a new rule was being introduced and I was left confused wondering why anyone would want to play this “game” but it does it’s job I am unnerved, well done. I was expecting it to turn into that early scene in Cabin in the woods (2011), where the kids are exorcising the witch but… well you’ll have to spare a few minutes to check it out. Rating: 6/10
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