Mörkret faller

Well where can i begin with Darkness Falls, this short science-fiction thriller movie has some of the most gorgeous opening credits i have ever seen in an opening of a movie, with wonderfully shot beautiful snowy locations.

There is some excellent camera work in Darkness Falls, some strong cinematography and clear visuals. That it is hard to believe it was filmed by two crew people including the director.

The film starts off with a young woman called Melissa waking up in a forest; unaware of how she got there or who she even is. Is this real or a nightmare, or is she in another world? You have to watch the film to decide for yourself.

Some of the things that happen are never fully explained but the performances are very good and the film moves along at a steady pace. There is some fantastic camera work in Darkness Falls, and some great cinematography with great visuals.

This short movie is better than some of the Hollywood films that are out there. I would love to see what the director could do with a large budget and make this film into a feature length movie.

Darkness Falls is a great little film that is worth watching and Jarno Lee Vinsencius not only directed this great short film, but he produced it, edited and wrote it, and was also the cinematographer. Jarno Lee you should be in Hollywood, you are a genius in making films..

Very occasionally I review short films, since I got an opportunity to see this, I have my reasons to write one for it. This is a Swedish sci-fi-thriller from who seems has a lot of experience in making short films. He's definitely a multi-talented, especially from the technical area who edits, handles the camera, writes, produces and ultimately dons in the director's hat. So I liked this film, but not entirely and what those I enjoyed and those I didn't can be read in the below paragraphs.

You know, short films are for the beginners. I too had worked for a couple of them since I'm an animator and interested in filmmaking. Without the proper source like tools and decent actors, especially without a maximum push from post-production, it would go straight to the garbage. Because nobody watches the short films, if it is not for fun, it takes just one good joke to impress the viewers. That's why lots of short films are comedy, especially animation. And those who watch non-fun genre short films, they expect cleverness in them like twist and turns. So it is a tough job to make a film that liked by everyone, but this filmmaker did his best.

The film was about a young woman who wakes up in the woods without a memory of where she's and how she got there. Followed by consulting with an expert, a stranger offers to help to clear her doubts and what comes is the peak of the film where everything she wanted to know and you would be revealed.

The first thing anybody who watched it would say the photography was amazing. I loved it, especially the angles. I think they have used drones for a couple of shots. The locations were beautiful too in its limited outdoor adventure. Overall, technically the film sounds great. Obviously, in a short film it is always a minimal cast and so did this one. But they all were good, especially the one who played the character Melissa. Anyway, nobody gets the chance to give their full potential in this kind of short run.

Let's talk about the story, which I find quite familiar. I think it was a decent up until the last scene, especially the twist which is what we see in all the films when the writers ran out of the fresh idea and who uses this one. Of course you would predict it earlier itself, but due to overall film was short, it would create a doubt what you just saw. I can't blame anybody for it, because the film lacks development, neither story nor its characters, and you will be a fool to expect that in a short film where the majority of the film trying to conclude the tale since the first minute.

Like I said in my many reviews, every filmmaker and stars want to jump into a sci-fi franchise. That's the current filmmaking trend, because of the CGI revolution. This one was a simple story, involving no graphics, but a sci-fi that has the alien connection. The overall effort must be appreciated. I haven't seen the other films of this filmmaker, but he has the ability to pull the feature films at top level. What he needs is a fine screenplay and the actors and obvious the supportive production house. Other than that I have faith in his technical skills, so let's hope he makes one in the near future and I'll come back here to write a review.

7/10

Trying to tell the full arc of a story within fifteen minutes is a real challenge when it comes to film. It is best accomplished by way of showing, with little telling. The director/writer might be tempted to use dialogue to compress plenty of exposition into a small time window, but it's a solution that will usually fail.

"Darkness Falls" overcomes some of its reliance on dialogue with some beautiful and haunting imagery. In the first scene it establishes a moody atmosphere that lends itself perfectly to telling a story through visuals, but the mood is dampened by the expository dialogue. The story itself is a combination of familiar sci-fi tales, with an ending that some viewers may see coming. Nevertheless, this is the work of a competent director who has real skills as a cinematographer.

I have to say I found the English subtitles annoying, because there were numerous errors in spelling and grammar, which take the viewer our of the film. Correcting them would really help for English-speaking viewers.

Shot in three days with a crew of two by writer, producer, director and cinematographer Jarno Lee Vinsencius, the short film Darkness Falls, (Morkret Faller) takes us to places even the most avid science fiction fan could not have imagined. Winner of the award for "Best Cinematography" at Roswell Film Festival and "Best Sci-Fi Short" at the Outlanta Con Film Fest," the film opens in a gorgeously filmed snow-covered forest. A young woman, Melissa (Joanna Haggblom), wakes up in a snow-covered forest with no recollection of how she got there. After running from the scene and checking into a remote motel, she receives an urgent note from someone named David (Demis Tzivis) who she doesn't know telling her that he knows exactly what is happening and asks her to meet him in a furtive location.

As Melissa slowly begins to remember who and where she is, the tension completely grips the viewer and doesn't let go until the final reveal. Though the acting can be wooden and some of the dialogue (especially that of the motel caretaker) does not fit into the mood of the film, the experience is so engrossing and well put together that the objections become irrelevant and the film stands as a first-rate thriller and hopefully a career boost for the first-time director.

A young woman called Melissa (Joanna Häggblom) awakes in a frozen forest without recollection of her life and herself. She goes to a motel and has nightmares while sleeping; she has also sessions with a psychiatrist expecting to retrieve her memories. Two weeks later, a stranger leaves a message to her with the super of her building scheduling an encounter at the Rock 'n' Roll Café. When Melissa meets David (Demis Tzivis), he knows exactly what is happening to her and explains that they are not on Earth but in a parallel world created by aliens to study the humans. Further, most of the population is clone and the earthlings have been abducted from Earth to interact with them. He also tells that their lives are in danger and they flee to an isolated barn, where they meet Amanda (Livia Emma Tsirk) and Felix (Niclas Fransson), a man that can help Melissa to recover her memories. Who might be Melissa and what happened to her?

"Mörkret faller", a.k.a. "Darkness Falls", is a sci-fi, thriller and even horror short film by the promising independent filmmaker Jarno Lee Vinsencius. The plot recalls an episode of "The Twilight Zone" based on the story lines of "Dark City" and "Matrix". The short has an anguishing and intriguing beginning, supported by a promising actress and magnificent cinematography, camera work and music score. The screenplay keeps the mysterious situation but with flaws, since the amnesic Melissa checks in a motel and goes to a shrink without any explanation. When Melissa meets David, the fast-paced revelations provide too much information to the viewer. The greatest flaw is David that does not tell how he has found Melissa. The conclusion has a surprising ending impossible to be guessed. But despite the flaws, the short has 15 minutes running time and a concise complex screenplay. My vote is eight.

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