There are films and then there is cinema. This is cinema (still, I will call it a film herein).
EFFECTS AND FRIGHTS: Where budget is lacking for effects, the filmmakers here use an extreme amount of tension, creepiness, and visual effects, including various cameras tricks, angles, lighting, and stroboscopic effects guaranteed to trigger an epileptic fit (I'm not kidding). There are several jump moments that scared me. SPOILERS: Not to mention a gritty though not gruesome hammer murder, and a bloody butcher-knife scene. Topping it off is the emotional ending that has you desiring one more moment.
ACTION: Some have commented that nothing happens in this film - this is 100% incorrect . SPOILERS: There is a broken romance; a seriously broken friendship with consequences; a drug habit that leads to seeing things, including ghosts which lead our anti-hero to murder. Much of what could be described as meandering is setting the timing for tripping and the possibility of a true haunting. It's a mystery too, you see. Personally, I think the film is tight at 90 minutes, and the lack of family life exposition actually makes you think more about how secure Daniel really is, though of course at the very end you probably won't think so.
PLOT: Daniel see ghosts. He takes pills. Is it connected? Is he seeing into another world? Why does he take pills? Apparently he has for some time but now it's increased due to his depression over his broken romance. Why is the romance broken? It could be any number of things, direct or indirect. The real question: is Daniel a good person or not? You'll have to make up your own mind.
NEGATIVES: (1) The setting is dreary, and while this has its charm, it also gives it that cheap 1970's feel, which is not altogether bad. (2) The dialogue tends to mumbling, and only Jeff has any real speaking parts, mainly aggressive, but there is another side to Jeff, and that speaks to the decent writing here.
EFFECTS AND FRIGHTS: Where budget is lacking for effects, the filmmakers here use an extreme amount of tension, creepiness, and visual effects, including various cameras tricks, angles, lighting, and stroboscopic effects guaranteed to trigger an epileptic fit (I'm not kidding). There are several jump moments that scared me. SPOILERS: Not to mention a gritty though not gruesome hammer murder, and a bloody butcher-knife scene. Topping it off is the emotional ending that has you desiring one more moment.
ACTION: Some have commented that nothing happens in this film - this is 100% incorrect . SPOILERS: There is a broken romance; a seriously broken friendship with consequences; a drug habit that leads to seeing things, including ghosts which lead our anti-hero to murder. Much of what could be described as meandering is setting the timing for tripping and the possibility of a true haunting. It's a mystery too, you see. Personally, I think the film is tight at 90 minutes, and the lack of family life exposition actually makes you think more about how secure Daniel really is, though of course at the very end you probably won't think so.
PLOT: Daniel see ghosts. He takes pills. Is it connected? Is he seeing into another world? Why does he take pills? Apparently he has for some time but now it's increased due to his depression over his broken romance. Why is the romance broken? It could be any number of things, direct or indirect. The real question: is Daniel a good person or not? You'll have to make up your own mind.
NEGATIVES: (1) The setting is dreary, and while this has its charm, it also gives it that cheap 1970's feel, which is not altogether bad. (2) The dialogue tends to mumbling, and only Jeff has any real speaking parts, mainly aggressive, but there is another side to Jeff, and that speaks to the decent writing here.