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"Shifter" from writer and director Jacob Leighton Burns was definitely not your average run-of-the-mill time travelling movie, for better or worse. There were some very interesting aspects to the storyline, to say the least.

Now, "Shift" is a semi-slow paced movie, to be honest, and it is because of the fact that you feel as is very little is actually happening throughout of the course of the entire movie. A fact, actually, because not all that much actually did happen in the movie.

I liked the part of the time travel, how one body becomes unraveled by the fabric of time as the other replace it. And it was definitely something very interesting in terms of originality from writer and director Jacob Leighton Burns.

Nicole Fancher (playing Theresa Chaney) carries the movie quite well with her performance. I am not familiar with her work, but I was pleased with her performance in "Shifter". And I also enjoyed the performance of Ashley Mandanas (playing Blake Douglass), even though I was fully unfamiliar with her prior to this movie. Just a shame that Ashley Mandanas wasn't given more screen time.

The special effects in the movie were good, and they definitely helped bring the movie to life on the screen.

Ultimately, it was the fact that so very little actually happened in the movie that made this movie suffer. And for me, it turned out to be a less than mediocre movie experience. Especially since there was so much potential readily available to be used here in the movie. It felt like writer and director Jacob Leighton Burns simply skipped on too many aspects of the movie or failed to delve deep enough to make it interesting.

My rating of "Shifter" is a mere four out of ten stars. I was disappointed with the pacing of the storyline and the fact that it actually feels like an incomplete movie.

I've never seen barf be so central a theme as in this movie.

This movie just jumped around too much, and I don't know why they thought it necessary for the character to throw up so.

...and it appears to be copied directly from 1982's "The Thing".

When it comes to sci fi movies, I don't need the cgi and special effects to keep me interested. Just give me a thought provoking story. I can even get past her time machine made out of an old oil drum and toaster parts.

Unfortunately, this one makes zero sense, has zero message, a flatline from start to finish.

Just odd looking people that can't act, a very large dose of misandry, and we watch the lead character throw up *thirty-one times*! What's more annoying than that is her "cute kitty" cartoon voice she does seven times.

Not even good enough for background noise while you multitask.

As a fan of indie film I'll watch anything, But then you get burned like this. Good premise, but bad acting, bad directing and miserable writing. The director has an eye for cinematography but he can't direct an actor or tell an enjoyable story. Bad writing is the worst culprit. I watched the whole thing as a fan of the time travel genre, I didn't even get a descent paradox, just silly reasoning and lazy writing to get us to the special effects scenes. Also worst time machine ever

Functional Sci Fi movies make sense internally and have a sense of cohesiveness. This one doesn't. At all. Because a young girl can assemble a clock, we are asked to accept the fact that she, as a young adult, can make a time machine from barnyard parts. No mention of HOW time travel or shifting is possible, what the method is, or how it was discovered, etc.

Then we shift into incredibly wooden acting and even worse dialog. Like a high school demo reel, if that.

Then it's on to fits of fast-forward (on my part) to see if there's anything worth watching.

And there isn't.

You have been warned.

She goes back in time ONE time & the rest is her feeling sick & coming apart. Boring and depressing!

Reviewing films isn't easy, but making them can't either. So how do you earn a decent amount of backing, come up with an interesting concept, and have some directing/writing experience for a film to come out this bad? A horror time travel movie that feels like an 1980's Cronenburg film could be something that would be awesome and entertaining as well. One of the earliest flaws is the pacing. The first twenty two minutes and forty nine secomds sets up our lead and her mundane life. From there, she travels two hours backwards to go back to the date she had so she can destroy the front window. That is the pace at which the film takes to get to the action. I personally don't like the effects for the impact shifting. They look fake beyond belief and the lack of budget shows. On the hand, Peter Jackson Sam Rami, and George Romero had low budgets and made great films so this can't be a valid reason why. The acting is alright. The supporting cast is more interesting than the main lead which is frustrating because we're stuck with a tabula rasa that isn't given very much character development for the audience to care. I genuinely feel bad for the backers who funded this, because it couldn't have been worth waiting for a film like this.

Imagine being a writer/producer with a warped vision of the world, i.e. men are bad. Then you create this cheaply made time-travel movie using a very odd-looking woman who works at an all-female warehouse and whose encounters are other odd women at the library but bad men at the bar. Either we have a woke opportunist as author/producer or this is really what he wanted to portray. Take a man's story and adapt for women because this is the time we live in right now.

The only reason I gave it a break=even score is because it has some gripping element. You will watch this without twitching for your phone or wondering what else is going on. I can stipulate how important it is to hook the viewer and keep them watching. This is why I ended my Netflix subscription. I started getting bored and they become to feminist woke.

Please watch "Source Code" after this. It will be like mouthwash for your brain.

A word of advice to today's filmmakers and screenwriters... Make a movie that you want... not a movie that fits into all of pigeon holes that the woke society has created and is trying to force onto the rest of tge world.

I haven't seen another time travel movie that took a horror approach to the genre. Really solid for a low budget indie film.

Shifter currently sits at a 3.6/10 on IMDb, which is unfair to all the good qualities of the film. With a rating like that, I was ready and expecting to see something really awful, poorly shot, and cheesy. Shifter is none of those things, and it's actually quite good. Overall,

Shifter is definitely not a bad film. It's well shot and has a creepy pace with a downer ending. The performances are quite good too, which is especially impressive considering these are mostly local unknown actors. It certainly feels bigger than it really is. However, it's just a bit too slow; i appreciated the slow pace and the quiet ambience of the film, but after a while it just gets boring. Shifter feels more like a short film that was unsuccessfully stretched to feature length than it does a film that feels natural at 90 minutes...not even 90 minutes at that.

I enjoyed enough of the film and it certainly utilized its microbudget extremely well. I'd like to see what this creative team could do with a larger budget, but the budget was clearly not an issue here. Most of my problems had to do with the writing, which costs no money to perfect.

Experience, and what made them never reaching the most horrifying goal of making a real horror movie is for me an open question to ask. it has nothing to do with the acting, because nicole and cast do a good job, was it the money.

it a kind of ''the fly'' conceptual movie, where the main has built a machine that can make you shift in time and place, a timeshifter you can say, but thats it. it does shift again and again, but the the sum of the shifting is not as deteriorating as you may wich from the genre.

its also a story about mental health, pretty introvert i may say, and there are a lot of uncharted sexuality, sadness, locked- outishness, extreme loneliness and an extreme case of multifobia.

there are really no good ending to this edition, i guess it will develope into a sequel hopefully more horrifying than this was. its playtime at about 90 minutes felt very slow thinks the grumpy old man. if scify-timetraveling nerd, have a look, just a small recommend from the grumpy ,still searching for the fountain of youth,old man

One of the best horrors I've ever seen. This movie destroyed me mentally and physically. After just 15 minutes of watching the film, I found myself sweating profusely and crying like a baby at the end. 10/10

Yeah um $30k budget and a facebook page?! n please.

I feel bad because I dislike raining on people who obviously cared deeply about what they were doing. Unfortunately, wht they were doing was producing an awful movie.

First, let me say that it was well photographed. A lot of small budget films don't put a lot of thought or money into lighting or camerawork, and it shows. This was shot ad lit by someone who knew how to do both.

And that's the est positive I can come up with. My guess is that this was someone's passiong project. I'd make a further guess that whoever it was didn't know much about writing. The movie consists of long sequences of pain, fear and struggle, punctuated by rare moments of intereaction with another character. There's little plot, and little driving it forward. There's nothing makng us care about the main character; it's hard to say whether this is the script's fault, the director's fault, or the actresses fault, or a combination.

Basically, somebody decided to remove one of the T's from the movie title and replace it with a F, the original title sums it up much better.

Concept was interesting enough to me to give it a go. It doesn't deliver, and you can see where the budget went.

I guess that we are stuck with the Covid-eos until the movie theaters open again and the blockbusters get released.

Before you make a time machine kids, check out this movie as a salutory lesson. And also, all l those budding directors whose movies are streaming during lockdown and who, for the most part, I want to strangle, check out what you can do for 30 large.

Maybe it was the uncontrollable (and surprisingly unannoying) compulsion of Nicole Fancher's character to speak in an "ootchy wootchy" cutesy voice whenever she saw a cat (or a picture of one) or the clever use of a non linear story line (is there any other one in time travel flicks?), but this was a Covid time indie movie that held my interest.

Great art direction, reasonable special effects, convincing performances and feel of growing fear and dread made this engaging throughout. Although much is revealed, there is not much explained in this film: who is this woman and why is she building a time travel device out of an old PC and a 44 gallon drum? And what happens to the cat? A great rhythm develops with enough human interaction to stop you feeling cold as a viewer. I see a great future for Nicole Fancher and writer/ director Jacob Leighton Burns: imagine what they could do if they actually had a budget that was more than most movies' "trendy chemical amusement aid flakes" spend.

If you like dark, clever, moody flicks check this out. You will learn, to paraphrase Fancher's character, why quantum physics is not a fun hobby, its a curse.

The cinema quality is really good, and it keeps you engaged. The premise takes a while to happen, and majority of the movie appears to remain in a state of build-up. Yet, it's a pretty decent small budget indie film, that really gets interesting towards the back half of the movie in a good way. Nicole Fancher (Teresa Chaney) plays a socially awkward wiz kid type of character a little too well, and that's a compliment to her efforts. Although, everyone in this film comes off as a little socially awkward to some degree, which was a little off putting at times.

I was also quite impressed by Ashley Mandanas (Blake Douglass; she's a very strong actress.

All and all good movie; a worth watch.

This film seems to be getting some fairly brutal reviews, but I think it might be because this is an especially difficult film to review as and entire package because there are so many conflicting layers to it. Conceptually, you have an incredibly unique and inventive cautionary tale about time manipulation, but the narrative is repeatedly dragged down by too many bland, poorly conceived, and unrealistic characters, given to actors who can't make the poor dialogue and awkward scenes work very well. Then you have really solid visual and sound editing, with some very passable ultra low-budget special effects to keep the story going. Despite all the failings of this film, it's important to consider the budget they had to work with, and time of production; which was seemingly none in both cases.

For fans of unique scifi, especially inventive takes on time travel, I highly recommend giving this film a shot for it's overall concepts and production, but keep your expectations on performances and dialogue especially low to make your trudge through the film much easier.

Jealous fellow indie filmmakers, perhaps?? Lovely twist on the usual time-travel film. Great performances, especially by the lead--career-making turn IMO.

Very unique low budget time travel movie! More character-focused than typical sci-fi fare, but keeps your attention with creepy atmosphere, intriguing visuals, and complex characters. Won't be for everybody, but those looking for something very different and unconventional won't be disappointed!