hawktwo

The suspense builds pretty logically and slowly. The scares are well directed.

The monsters are minimal shown, thank heavens! Although most of the cast is a bit unknown (exception being Laila), the acting was quite good with one excpetion and it was a minor character sitting at a table in the diner.

I'm very surprised this didn't get much press at the time. It's a pretty decent movie.

I didn't realize this was a SYFY movie it auto started when I clicked on one of my streaming apps. I couldn't figure out the odd combination of what seemed to be a film shot in Germany yet with dubbing that matched the actors lips. I finally decided that perhaps they had shot each scene several times. Once in German and once in English. Maybe other languages as well. I think a lot of multi-episode series have small logic problems and this one does as well, but the overall impression is still cohesive. I was saddened when characters I liked were 'turned'. Maybe the dialogue is stilted but I got immersed in the sounds of the voices. I loved the voices of Falk Hentshel and Aleksandar Jovanovic.

I have not read the novel Parfum, so I have no way of knowing if it's an attempt at an adaptation. I it doubt since the novel is such an integral part of the plot. Props for atmosphere and acting here. I watched it with subtitles and heard it with English dubbing. At times, the subtitles and dubbing were using rather different ways of saying the same thing. Kind of fascinating. It was a good mystery/crime story and the writers made use of the multi-episodes to gradually reveal a bit more of the mystery. I found it difficult to tell the boys apart when they were younger (exception being Toothless) and couldn't quite figure out who was really Elena's boyfriend back in the day. The writers made good use of flashbacks.