THE DEAD THING (2024)

Directed By: Elric Kane 

Written By: Elric Kane and Webb Wilcoxen 

Cinematography: Ioana Vasile

Editor: Star Rosencrans

Cast: Blu Hunt, Ben-Smith Petersen, Katherine Hughes, John Karna, Josh Marble, Brennan Mejia, Joey Millin, Aerial Washington 

A young woman lost in a series of meaningless connections falls in love with a charismatic and sensitive man, who hides a dark secret that turns her affair into a dangerous obsession.

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The film starts off with such a shock that it reminded me of the film RED WHITE AND BLUE. The shows the mundane life she has and those around her are so lifeless, but when she is with different men. She feels alive and with this one who seems to finally grab her interest and want to see more than once, is of course supernatural. Which we won’t find out like her until later. 

Though It’s never quite explained as even the character who it happens to can’t understand. The film doesn’t make it too much of a spectacle. Though it doesn’t mystery and thus life to the character, but also the film. It’s never quite fleshes out its ideas. The film is always doom And gloom as ItMs never fun and becomes quite repetitive. 

The film explores, Just when you think you have made a connection and you each like one another. You get ghosted literally. As Later revelations is she a nymphomaniac using sex to make her desired and feel good about herself, not necessarily happy. As the film never quite explains her motivations. She is just very sexual and then meets the right guy. Who she makes a connection with, then her literally ghosts her and she can’t take it. Treating her how she has treated others, except without the death part 

The film is broody and moody. Though one you could certainly talk about even for It’s Cut and dry factors. It seems to have something to say, but not quite. As it seems more provocative only to be seen and noticed . It’s Not necessary, yet keeps you interested by its presentation. 

It’s also mainly due to the lead Blu Hunt that keeps one captivated. As she has an exotic yet plain attractiveness.

It seems ridiculous as her character is so attractive and she doesn’t appear to be that picky. Though even her original co-worker failed at seduction of her. But she is willing to keep hooking up with the undead/ghost/zombie/dead guy and she knows it. So that she comes off as a necrophiliac willing to cross the line because he is attractive. It’s Like the film substituted who she should have gone for for a cuter guy.

This is what happens when you forsake your friends, work and responsibilities for lust, their partner and/or sex. As Time passes and you don’t realize what you are missing or losing. 

The film keeps you guessing in its reveals but never quite tells or explains. Like in a relationship you learn more as it goes along.

The film is built on metaphors throughout. It also feels a bit superficial. 

As it’s a relationship horror film that offers It’s take on dead end relationships. Accepting the faults that might end up affecting you and killing you. 

She’s Obsessed as he Seems to feed off of her. He becomes more desperate as she rebounds. As She is ready to get over him he comes back and seems to only want sex and for her to take care of him and forget her own needs.

The film is slow paced and offers a slow burn as it takes its time. It keeps its world so small. So that there aren’t that many characters. Though it seems to take place in Los Angeles. It seems to stick to its neighborhood. 

This erotic thriller that catches your attention immediately, but always so downtrodden. As it’s only an erotic thriller as it seeks that theme with mood, sex scenes and nudity. Though the lacks of chemistry between the leads messes up the experiment and the nudity in the sex scenes is solidly focused on her and her being topless. 

How come no one else like her roommate checked on her. Even though they share a place. 

As we watch the Dangers of jumping into a relationship. Even though demand the attention does make them both feel Separately and together. Even if the couple on the middle of this film don’t necessarily have any chemistry. 

It has a plot point that you can see coming, but doesn’t need to be there. As it seems there just to add a body count. 

The film might have made a more effective short or could have been edited down a bit to be shorter. Maybe if it had gone with some stronger ideas that it sets up. It would feel stronger and about more then relationship similes and a doomed love story. Which we have seen before. 

It might have helped if there was a female writer on this film. As it is written and directed by males. Where it feels less sensitive and more masculine. 

Even the ending why does one character,  who he kills come back but not any of his other victims?

In the end it seems to be a film that shows the emptiness of sex. As it goes out of its way to make it look so unappealing for the most part and how it causes nothing but pain eventually and even death. That is the way I read it maybe i am dyslexic when it comes to this film and also I am single.