Plank Face

This may be the most graphic (nudity gore ect) and upsetting/ unsettling film I have ever seen. This is one of those films you really wish you couldunwatch. Garbage.

At the start, a couple is parked by the side of a road in a forested area, and they decide they want to get frisky. After all, from a fire tower they didn't see anyone for miles around. Bad decision. Later a couple are headed into the forest to camp out. They are assaulted, and the man winds up in a primitive cabin. There are three women inside. A grandmother type, a mother type and a younger woman. The younger woman wears a Halloween type bunny mask. They are not very coherent and they hammer the point that he is not going to escape. It is a scenario that they are very feral, living with some interesting culinary habits. They are not particularly verbal. The man, Max, seems to understand that he is not going to go anywhere, no matter how circumstances may change. And this is where I feel the movie lost its way. For me, it fell flat, and they threw in the gross factor.

As Descartes opined, man (and thus his mores) is essentially the sum of his past experiences. Plank Face is premised on whether a traumatic experience wipe out that person and and more pertinently his mores. Indie director Scott Schirmer poses this question in a well paced suspenceful admospheric woodlands setting, done largely through excellent cinematography using very little dialogue (reminiscent of Hagazussa). The suspense is retained by the question remaining open to the very end. The traumatic event could have been counted over a great period of time which would have added Greater realized, but all and all, a great film done on a lower than $ 10 000 budget.

I got burned, you don't get burned. It's a 2016 horror movie. The acting is so amateur that you can see it as soon as you open the movie. Imdb rating is very high compared to this movie. In the movie, there are cannibals living in the forest, just like their counterparts. They are adopting someone. There is no limit to sexuality and nudity. I usually have incompatibility with Scandinavian films. I thought the movie was the movie of those regions, but it was American made. There was a similar mask in the movie cub - werb.

If you follow any of Scott Schirmer's work, you will be familiar with a couple more effective titles, such as Found and Harvest Lake. These are examples where low-to-no budget can be great entertainment, if not just a bizarre experience to hold your attention. The questionable title aside, this one was great, all things considered. It's done on a very limited budget, but the heart is in it, the actors are giving 100% of their ability, and it just ends up working. The actors are comfortable in their skin and their ability to be fearless with the script really adds a lot to this premise. Even though it's hit and miss on what the Ellie Church posse comes up with, they put in the effort as independent film makers. Plank Face is not perfect. There's a lot of missing lore that would otherwise fill in many plot holes or plausibility acceptance (and would risk the runtime becoming too long), but I did enjoy this one without getting hung up on the details. The acting, direction, ending, and overall production made this one of the better ones in I/Low Budget category.