Truthfully, this should have been the WORST film on the face of the planet..consider the evidence:
Storyline - dross... Cast - dross (or so we thought...) Camera work - worse than dross... Publicity - non-existent Budget - less than a years salary
I watched this film for the first time last night, thinking it a decent filler until the next show - and wanting to see what the fuss was about...
SO - I repeat - WHAT HAPPENED????
How did all of these dross elements come together into such a terrifyingly and disturbingly claustrophobic film?
The answer is elusive (if it weren't, Ed Wood would have got a few more Oscars!). I think it is that which "Makes" the movie. Elusiveness...there is no direction at any point in this film - apart from the closing seconds as Heather runs down the stairs. Everything is hidden - to be honest, I don't want to watch this again to SEE who that was standing in the corner - the vagueness is, I think, what set this film up to succeed. Even the title is vague, the camerawork is vague, everything about this movie is a BLUR...and I think that this is what captured the imaginations of both the makers and, subsequently, the viewers.
My "Decent Filler", quite frankly, scared the hell out of me (or into me - depends on your point of view!). I have hired the sequel out tonight, but can't help thinking (as obviously everyone else did except the producers) that it is on to a loser...
Don't look outside your front door in the morning...
Storyline - dross... Cast - dross (or so we thought...) Camera work - worse than dross... Publicity - non-existent Budget - less than a years salary
I watched this film for the first time last night, thinking it a decent filler until the next show - and wanting to see what the fuss was about...
SO - I repeat - WHAT HAPPENED????
How did all of these dross elements come together into such a terrifyingly and disturbingly claustrophobic film?
The answer is elusive (if it weren't, Ed Wood would have got a few more Oscars!). I think it is that which "Makes" the movie. Elusiveness...there is no direction at any point in this film - apart from the closing seconds as Heather runs down the stairs. Everything is hidden - to be honest, I don't want to watch this again to SEE who that was standing in the corner - the vagueness is, I think, what set this film up to succeed. Even the title is vague, the camerawork is vague, everything about this movie is a BLUR...and I think that this is what captured the imaginations of both the makers and, subsequently, the viewers.
My "Decent Filler", quite frankly, scared the hell out of me (or into me - depends on your point of view!). I have hired the sequel out tonight, but can't help thinking (as obviously everyone else did except the producers) that it is on to a loser...
Don't look outside your front door in the morning...