Sleep in Heavenly Peace

Saw this as part of the True West Cinema Festival. Amateurish even for a student film. Someone has apparently knelt down and worshiped at the movie Hostel and Eli Roth because it is a rip off of that torture porn film. Violence for the sake of violence. It isn't a enjoyable to see on screen minute by minute of gore and blood. The director and writers should watch some Hitchcock and some old school horror directors before they waste their time again with this genre. The acting may have been the saving grace of the film if the director would have let the actors go. Instead it focuses on gore and blood and everything else that is included in the now boring torture porn genre. Bowd Beal does commendable work as the lead but is almost ruined by his co stars work. Anastasia Zavaro may be one of the worst actresses to grace a screen this year. All in all a terrible film. Not worth anyones trouble.

I had an absolute blast watching this flick and I was surprised by how solid the production values were. The writer/director definitely shows some talent with a solid ear for naturalistic dialogue and good composition in the photography which helps ground the film in a reality that is necessary for all the goofy antics that follow. This is a hard film to find the right tone for, but this one straddles the fence quite well. The cast was good, with a terrific lead performance that hearkens back to silent movies but with a bit more subtlety.

Overall, great fun and I hope that the director gets a chance to flex his muscles with a larger budget.

The death of family dog before Christmas can be, for a woman, good example of responsability and respect for pet for education of her son.

So, her husband must digg a grave for poor animal. But the ground is frozen, the machine works not so well and when it works the man lost his arms.

It is beginning of a series of events . And for a compensation - his pray is accepted, his faith becomes strong, like the dependence by his wife.

A bitter - sweet comedy, with touch of horror - the last miniminalized by unrealism of situation , seductive for religious message for me. And , sure, for nice performance of Bowd Beal.

The last reviewer is an idiot who clearly knows jack-all about film.

This short is an incredibly fun and intelligent take on the horror genre. It's been a few months since I've seen it, but I remember really enjoying it, mostly due to the way in which it balances the carnage of an incredibly bizarre accident with the fact that all movies in this genre are, to some extent, a spoof of themselves. It purposefully does not hit you over the head with the fact that it is a spoof, and in that way, maintains a subtlety of which few movies in this genre are capable.

There are also several very interesting references to religious imagery, clearly lost on the last reviewer. Too bad, so sad.

Maybe it is just me but I am sick and tired of sitting thru hack inspired work. Even in short films. These directors, and yes I use that word as loosely as I can, should be about originality. The director here makes this mistake. There is nothing original about this short film. If you have seen any horror movie the past three years you have seen this. Maybe this is a good thing since the general public dooesn't have to see unoriginal directors getting feature length deals. Maybe it is a good trial for prospective directors. They blow their shot here and they are done. I just think it is a huge waste of time for anyone to work on something this totally boring and unoriginal. Why even make this film in the first place? I can't blame the actors since they are second rate to begin with. The blame begins and ends with the director.