Glasshouse

This is a prickly slow burner with a gloomy atmosphere not unlike The Others. It's just incredibly refreshing to watch a film that isn't a reboot or a sequel or an adaptation or a remake. Just a solid original film. Acting is a bit patchy but the way the eerie story unfolds makes it all worth the watch.

"Glasshouse" is a Drama - Sci-Fi movie in which we watch a family living in a glasshouse after surviving from the spread of a toxin that erases memory called The Shred.

I believe that "Glasshouse" was a big surprise for many viewers since they did not expect it to be so interesting and good. Despite that the plot was simple, it contained some plot twists I did not expect and made it even more interesting. The direction which was made by Kelsey Egan was very good and she presented very well both her main characters and the main plot of the movie without leaving anything unexplained or creating any plot holes. The interpretations of Hilton Pelser who played as The Stranger, Adrienne Pearce who played as The Mother and Jessica Alexander who played as Bee were very good and they made the difference. All in all, I have to say that "Glasshouse" is a nice movie and big surprise for me so, I recommend you to give it a try because I believe it worth's watching it.

Low budget, ok production values with a plot that a snail could speed past. A dystopian movie that is about endurance for both the characters and the audience. I gladly failed the endurance test.

The story of this films works on many levels. On its surface, it is a slowly unfurling story of a family surviving in isolation, protected from the physical threats of the airborne disease beyond their glasshouse home and of those infected by it. Each member of the family must navigate the changes to their dynamics and roles when a stranger joins them.

But nothing about this film is only surface level- it is also a story about story itself that explores how the stories we tell ourselves and believe (in families, in society) shape our sense of belonging and out actions, and how we are culpable in our decisions about the stories and histories we remember and those we choose to forget.

The film moves slowly, but this works well to create the slightly surreal feel of the environment and the family, to build the tension - which increasingly bubbles throughout, and to explore the rich themes presented. I found it really refreshing to be offered provoking themes and questions for consideration without being bashed over the head by them or spoken down to as a viewer.

I turned over many of these questions over in my head, revisiting moments from the film for days after I saw it.

The film is lovely to look at is well worth the watching.

This is a movie primarily about a small group of people and their interactions and relationships, essentially a psychodrama, with the key contextual element that everyone has some degree of memory loss. Given that, I didn't find it slow or boring, and I thought the execution was fine.

In a post-apocalpytic setting where there is a toxin in the atmosphere which causes memory loss, there has been a greenhouse which can produce enough oxygen to support at most six people, who belong to what is some combination of cult and family, where the six people with partial memory loss maintain their perceived grasp on reality by assiduously perpetuating an origin story about themselves whose veracity becomes progressively more apparent over the course of the movie.