Aren't Movies Meant to Run Over an Hour?
Offered on Amazon Prime as a feature length film this shonk job of 'movie' had plenty of potential to be an unusually quirky and really frightening film, but instead it petered out after 30 minutes of repetitive and unimaginative monologue, unbelievable 'scared breathing' and even less frightening manifestations of a ghost you were pretty much expecting from minute one.
There was a lot of potential in this non movie/short film which the film maker either didn't notice or chose to ignore. Understandably, (but in no way justfiably), it looks like it was made during the initial full blown lockdown period of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and as such there was a severe limitation on any production, but there could have been so much more, should the film maker have paced it and simply employed a few more creative elements to build the initially successfully induced tension before prematurely revealing the 'ghost' and silly ending.
It almost had as much potential as was achieved by The Blair Witch Project which relied upon long scenes of nothing but darkness to build its tension, and that was the highest grossing film in history for its comparitive initial outlay to return ratio(!), so that's an indication of how much the makers of this film really missed the boat with what this could have been.
Despite it being picked up by streaming service like the one earlier mentioned and thus aapparently made a ldegitmate 'movie' through their dubious classification regime, of which this wasn't the only deceptively scant, offending offering, instead of the film creating goodwill with its original quirkiness and clever economy of cast and setting, it caused me to feel like I'd been ripped off becase I was expecting a full length feature and not merely a 40 odd minute rush job which the poorly orchestrated travesty of amateur make up artistry saw this thing quickly become when it was brought to its sudden and utterly illogical end, much like a cheap, pulp horror comic storyline where the production team were clearly far more intereted in receiving their day's end paycheue than in any way providing the public with a satisfying story, I regret to say there's not much more to this film than a house supposedly abandoned (and yet the lawns were illogically meticulously maintained and the tinterior clean and tidy after apparently a rotting corpse was left to fester in the bedroom whilst murderous squatters, not noted for their conscientious adherence to exquisite home care regimes abused the space for 12 solid weeks yet left it looking like home help just dusted it) so, between that unbelievable number of elemental failures to convey truth and numerous pieces of clean white string that looked like they had just been cut from a ball of newly purchased twine and inexplicably stuck onto a mirror with a chunk of whatever bodily fluid was most immeditely accessible, just like the short and intriguing title, with this disappointment that's about all you're going to see.
I'm cancelling Amazon Prime in protest at their scurrilous practice of flogging 40 minute bombs as feature films, mainly because I don't believe anyone who elevates themselves on blocks of cash really is above the rest of society's expectations of what they ought to receive when watching a movie nor does this automatically see them inherit the right of arbiter of popular culture with the soverign right to reclassify short films as movies and thereby to ripoff those paying their actual hard earned money for what they don't receive.
There was a lot of potential in this non movie/short film which the film maker either didn't notice or chose to ignore. Understandably, (but in no way justfiably), it looks like it was made during the initial full blown lockdown period of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and as such there was a severe limitation on any production, but there could have been so much more, should the film maker have paced it and simply employed a few more creative elements to build the initially successfully induced tension before prematurely revealing the 'ghost' and silly ending.
It almost had as much potential as was achieved by The Blair Witch Project which relied upon long scenes of nothing but darkness to build its tension, and that was the highest grossing film in history for its comparitive initial outlay to return ratio(!), so that's an indication of how much the makers of this film really missed the boat with what this could have been.
Despite it being picked up by streaming service like the one earlier mentioned and thus aapparently made a ldegitmate 'movie' through their dubious classification regime, of which this wasn't the only deceptively scant, offending offering, instead of the film creating goodwill with its original quirkiness and clever economy of cast and setting, it caused me to feel like I'd been ripped off becase I was expecting a full length feature and not merely a 40 odd minute rush job which the poorly orchestrated travesty of amateur make up artistry saw this thing quickly become when it was brought to its sudden and utterly illogical end, much like a cheap, pulp horror comic storyline where the production team were clearly far more intereted in receiving their day's end paycheue than in any way providing the public with a satisfying story, I regret to say there's not much more to this film than a house supposedly abandoned (and yet the lawns were illogically meticulously maintained and the tinterior clean and tidy after apparently a rotting corpse was left to fester in the bedroom whilst murderous squatters, not noted for their conscientious adherence to exquisite home care regimes abused the space for 12 solid weeks yet left it looking like home help just dusted it) so, between that unbelievable number of elemental failures to convey truth and numerous pieces of clean white string that looked like they had just been cut from a ball of newly purchased twine and inexplicably stuck onto a mirror with a chunk of whatever bodily fluid was most immeditely accessible, just like the short and intriguing title, with this disappointment that's about all you're going to see.
I'm cancelling Amazon Prime in protest at their scurrilous practice of flogging 40 minute bombs as feature films, mainly because I don't believe anyone who elevates themselves on blocks of cash really is above the rest of society's expectations of what they ought to receive when watching a movie nor does this automatically see them inherit the right of arbiter of popular culture with the soverign right to reclassify short films as movies and thereby to ripoff those paying their actual hard earned money for what they don't receive.
- bretthernan-02733
- Feb 28, 2024