Dead Frequency

I don't make a habit of writing reviews, but I wanted to for this film. It is so unusual to have a film made in the North East by local people and we see this as our local film.

It was very exciting to see a local film made here. We loved watching out for the landmarks and trying to see where it had been filmed.

I watched this with my movie buddy. We both thought it was fun and enjoyable. The storyline, acting and music were all good. It was also very funny in places so all in all we had a very enjoyable evening.

I hope that this is a sign of thing to come and that there will be more made up here.

Although directed well, which makes me feel slightly bad about giving it a 1 out of 10, the acting for the majority of the film was awful.

The leading lady looked out of depth, and generally possessed little charisma or ability at portraying her role. 5 of us began watching the film, 2 walked out and 1 fell asleep.

A shame considering it is a local film. I wanted to enjoy this film, but ended up hating it. I will however keep my eye out for more films by Rob, as he seems to have a good eye for directing, however was let down by some (not all) of the cast.

Perhaps more time perfecting the role, and less time bragging on Twitter about how great the leading lady thinks she is could improve the film!

I gave this 8/10. I based this on the idea that a standard run-of-the-mill film would be 5/10. The acting was about the same, i.e. average. I added one for the creative filming making 6/10 (the Newcastle by night scenes were really good). It has been put together well, the editing was above average (better than just cutting from one to another as they speak, it seemed they were more interested in catching expression and responses) so I added one (7/10). Finally the music – I loved the ballads, so gave it another one making 8/10.

Other than this, the story had twists and was worth following – but average for a typical feature. A dark sense of humour came across, I liked this although at first I was not sure if it was supposed to be funny or not, but the humour was well measured and combined with drama. I did not make any special allowance for it being low budget as I am not interested in how something was made – I only care what it looks like (in fact it did not look that low budget).

I would watch it again and am waiting to get it on DVD – mainly for the music though.

I am a huge film fan, especially independent films. So when I heard that this film was shot in and around my local area, I was excited to see it. I had heard a lot of build up about the film (as I found out later, pretty much all of it was from certain cast members).

When I finally got to see it, I was hugely disappointed. I was shocked at how poor some of the acting was by certain cast members, and the overall script lacked quality, depth, and structure.

It was also quite obvious that the editing was done by a beginner, rather than someone who knows what they are doing - this shows throughout the film.

I don't really have anything positive to say about the film, I would seriously advise people to stay clear of this one!

As a friend of one of the cast I think it will be great when this film has been seen by a wider audience and we can move away from the local and very silly comments made towards the actors allegedly based on having seen it at it UK Charity Premiere. I say allegedly because we all know that low voting happened daily in the week before it was even seen here.

This film would not have had official selection an international film festival if half the drivel that has been written about it on this site was true. Another point to consider, the real actors, the ones in the movie and I call it that as it has been in a cinema, are moving on. I am looking forward to seeing some them in other stage and film productions in future. All I can say is good film, good acting and well done!