Written & Directed By: Chris Nash
Cinematography: Pierce Derks
Editor: Alex Jacobs
Cast: Ry Barrett, Andrea Paviovic, Cameron Love, Reece Presley, Liam Leone, Charlotte Creaghan, Lee Rose Sebastianis, Sam Roulston
When a locket is removed from a collapsed fire tower in the woods that entombs the rotting corpse of Johnny, a vengeful spirit spurred on by a horrific 70-year-old crime, his body is resurrected, and becomes hellbent on retrieving it.
This film tries to be something different that comes across as more experimental, and while one can applaud what they try to do artistically it doesn’t quite rise to the occasion.
It’s never quite as thrilling or inventive as it should be. This results in any movie that feels quite familiar and also a little bit slow. as it tries at times to be a little more artistic, which there is nothing wrong with that is all there is.
The story is familiar or could be any other slasher. The FRIDAY THE13th movies will be the main one that comes to mind.
At the beginning of the film, it seems like the film will take place more from a certain perspective throughout but while the film starts that way, and sometimes returns to that at other times, it plays more typically for thrills and set up the characters and to offer a bit of mystery even though there aren’t any jump scares.
What there is are notable violent gory death scenes where practical effects are used and it seems a lot of the time the movie is just setting up for the audience to Marvel at those which are over the top violent at times for no real reason other than to show off or offer something after all that time waiting.
Even at first the story which seems simple and seems to be a kind of revenge story ends up just becoming a slasher as the victims might be connected very thinly or really, not at all to the slasher's reason for killing but usually it’s just that they either associate or are there And that’s really the reason. What’s even worse is that the violence that is truly cruel and over the top seems saved more for the more innocent victims rather than the guilty
There’s nothing wrong with a film, taking its time and the reason is there as it is more setting up things, but could’ve easily also been cut like the kill in the shed with the log splitter. There was no reason for it to be that truthfully, or at least try to spice it up with some thrills
This film could’ve been more effective if they had kind of momentum to keep it going something that keeps the audience on the edge of their seats, but a lot of the time is just waiting when you finally see another person at least you know something going to happen and even then, the film still takes its time
It’s not a bad film, but this comes across as the type of film that is overhyped because of differences before major audiences can see it and then once audiences do see it realize it’s not all cracked up will have fans as it deserves it, but it doesn’t seem to do as much as it could with its ideas. It was never quite as thought out past that or they couldn’t make the story necessarily work as much with it.
They realized that this was the only way to make a slasher that was a bit different than usual.
It’s a film worth checking out, but be worn beforehand that it’s not as exciting as one might hope or think.
Grade: C
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