Nocturne Six

I don't understand how anybody could possibly rate this movie a "one". I think much of the time people get envious or ticked off at other people because their film got made before theirs, or something like that, so out of spite, they give it a one.

Personally, I don't think it's a ten, but a solid nine I give it. It's original, active, and downright chilling. Even seeing how low budget this film was, I give credit to the filmmakers and writer for being able to pull off such a creepy beast. I might start having nightmares after hearing how that demon screamed or yelped in the movie now.

This movie to me was a shocker in that I was caught by surprise several times. If a film can do that to me, then for me, it's worthy to be out there with all the rest.

I bought this movie about a week ago. I wanted to come on here and explain a few things to reviewers prior to writing a bad review. First off, it's probably going to be somewhere between a "6" and an "8". I wouldn't give it either a nine or ten, but that's just me. I've seen a lot of other users here in the IMDb have given it just that, 9s & 10s. I'm not them, so I don't know what they enjoy. Speaking on behalf of myself who once worked for an independent film business almost fifteen years ago as an executive producer, I keep abreast of the independent market.

First off, let me state this, unless you are a somewhat intelligent person, or have worked in the film business, you can't possibly imagine what the mental and even physical cost is for an independent filmmaker. The difficulties in making a film on a lower budget takes ambition and above all, courage. The ability to stick by something for an endless amount of time is not for the faint of heart. Nocturne Six is unlike other independent movies that I've not only made, but have watched. I would have to say from a very critical point of view, there are most likely only 9 total movies that fall into my personal category that make my top 10 favorite independent releases. Nocturne Six is one of them as of now.

Many films today must adhere to a new market of individuals, sadly. It's not much about story lines and intelligence within films anymore. Screenwriters must always be thinking outside the box for ways to keep the unaware public at bay to follow through with their movie experience. If a screenwriter/s can get their point across without all the glitz and glam of explosions and shotgun blasts, then they've accomplished their objective and then some for those of us film lovers that actually know and understand, and even appreciate what were taking into our brains.

Nocturne Six for me as an "unofficial" film critic was not just simply executed with what these filmmakers were using, but they brought a fascinating plot of modern science and culture, and the ever-growing world of paranormal science to life in just under two-hours. Many movies that I have watched can't seem to get their point across in the time they've been approved for and still remain under budget. I find modern filmmaking to be appalling sometimes, in that the fact we are willing to hand out $60million to a "so-called trusted" director just because he's achieved the same thing over and over again. It's all about the "Flash! Bang! Boom!" effect, rather than the intellectual movie experience anymore. Mass-produced movies are in your face, and it's all about the money and the trend. Don't get me wrong, I can appreciate what goes into making these films, but when did we stop rewarding those who actually have something special to say through art and craftsmanship, and start rewarding those who use the same gimmicks over and over again, the same cookie-cutter hum-drum nonsense? From a technical aspect, I loved how Nocturne Six utilized many modern-day library footage, referenced modern government agencies and had an all-around horror/sci-fi affect.

Personally, I just can't fathom someone giving this movie anything below a six. You have to be somewhat reasonably intelligent to understand this movie, and if you are, then you'll understand to issue it a respectful number, above that of "5".

This one is a very fragile idea, with a seemingly complicated plot that could be executed phenomenally.

This film failed miserably.

Using the framing device of a cable news expose', we're told of a CIA program using people with psychic abilities of some sort being teleported to alternate "planes of existence" to stop evil inhuman creatures from trying to invade our plane of existence. We follow a mission that ended in abysmal failure and led to the entire program's cancellation, via camera footage taken by the psychic teens themselves and in the facility from the handlers.

Right away the first failing of the film is how it actually handles the alternate planes of existence and how to put the people in them. They don't do anything original or interesting; the teens go to sleep with electrodes on their head, and basically "dream" everything.

Almost to a person, the acting is among the absolute worst I've ever seen, even reaching the level of middle schoolers sight-reading Shakespeare in first year English. EVERYONE is at their absolute worst, delivering lines like they're reading them for the first time ever and essentially guessing as to the context or tone of them.

there are two of CIA handlers voices, Alpha and Delta. The voice of Delta is literally someone putting on the most cartoonishly over the top "redneck" accent they can muster while still sounding serious, and Alpha sounds like a 15 year old reading lines from an NPC in a poorly written RPG game.

Speaking of NPCs in poorly written RPG games, at one point for seemingly no reason at all, we get an audio clip of a "resident mortician" from the alternate plane, and to call what he did "acting" is to call smeared fish guts baked into concrete by the sun "gourmet sushi".

Apparently drawing their inspiration from Vincent Price, they give a painfully bland monologue describing some manner of creature eating corpses in a funeral home with the sort of purple prose of a drunken teenager mockingly imitating Edgar Allen Poe. It is the epitome of every bad "creepy sinister old man" NPC voice in every poorly written computer RPG voiced by one of the production assistants with no acting experience at all.

Virtually every aspect of this short, short film is an abject failure. The story is incoherent and constantly interrupted by Beavis and Butthead (Alpha and Delta) droning moronically like pubescent teenagers trying to scare children with deep, ultra serious voices. All the video footage is heavily grained and distorted, the CG effects for the monsters literally look like they were made in MS Paint, and the sound mixing is some of the absolute worst of any movie I've ever heard, with some characters sounding like they have microphones, and others not. Some lines are barely audible, then other lines, usually curse words, are ear-splittingly loud, sometimes in the same sentence.

Nothing in this film went right. The writing, the acting, the visual effects, even the most basic stuff like sound. All of it failed abysmally, to such a colossal degree that, seeing positive reviews of this film praising the visual effects, of all things, genuinely makes me think those reviews are planted by the filmmakers. And I have almost never come across a movie review I have suspected of being a fake.

I actually watch a LOT of horror from the classics (The Black Room, White Zombie) to modern horror (Spring, Sinister)and I love everything from psychological to gory to downright creepy. Some I hated and some I really loved. I also review horror movies because I find that everyone has diverse tastes in what they find good and then some people are paid to give good reviews which cheats the viewer and they are stuck watching a train wreck and it's not even an entertaining one. Also I know that on here the directors get the actors and their friends to give the movie a high rating and write good reviews because that encourages other people to watch the movie (I fell for it), which is a really good system if the movie was actually worth watching. This movie just happens to be one of those train wrecks I mentioned earlier. The concept was good but it was executed poorly. The acting was so so bad. The staticy flickering camera was annoying because it was constantly happening. I get that it is supposed to be found footage but come on! The sound was horrible and the "demon/monster" sounded like a bleating goat. The story was disjointed and half the time you didn't know what was going on which led more to confusion than creepiness. I almost felt like I was watching a really badly done rendition of the Power Rangers meet Evil Big Foot. Not once did I feel creeped out or was I on the edge of my seat. This movie did not hold my attention and I actually had to force myself to sit through it. Not because it was scary but because I was getting so frustrated with that stupid flickering camera and confusion about what was really going on. This movie lacks any kind of intellectual stimulus. If you just want something to pass the time or for background noise this is great. If you actually want to sit down and watch a good indie horror I would pass this one up. And that's an honest answer.

On its surface, "Nocturne Six" seems like your typical horror film with the usual story and characters you'd come to expect in the genre. However, I was pleasantly surprised to be thrown into a gritty docu-style deconstruction of a disturbing government conspiracy involving a dark military science program.

The imagery was really haunting and the film almost felt like diving into someone's subconscious to experience a vivid nightmare. The filmmakers did an extraordinary job both creatively and technically on a small budget. Overall, this was a nice, fun movie to catch on a dark Saturday night. I was quite stunned to be as entertained as I was by it.

And the image of that creature will forever be stuck in my mind.....