Sadly missing all of the Saturday line-up at GRIMMfest due to having a very nasty flu,I dragged myself out of bed, determined to watch some of the few remaining titles on Sunday. Spotting an Italian Horror,I decided that for my final viewing of the line-up,I'd enter the room.
View on the film:
About to take her own life until a stranger knocks on the door,Camilla Filippi gives a gripping performance as Stella,whose wrought emotions are laid bare by Filippi across the floor as Stella begins to experience increased horrifying friction with the stranger. Entering only giving the most vague outline to his background, Guido Caprino gives an enticing turn as Giulio, whose elusiveness Caprino uses to make Giulio more enticing, as revelations to Giulio's background spiral out of the room.
Whilst the large single location does not feature a actual ghost, co-writer (with Francesco Agostini and Filippo Gili) / director Stefano Lodovichi & cinematographer Timoty Aliprandi build an eerie, haunted presence inside the confines with long gliding shots across the house, which recoil on tense fractured whip-pans bouncing on the sounds of events from the past,which linger on within the walls.
Locking everyone in to the single location, the screenplay by Lodovichi/Agostini and Gili cleverly criss-cross psychological Thriller with a Horror altering of time, via chipping away at the background which caused Stella's attempt to end her life, that expands into unravelling the true reason the stranger Giulio is paying a visit, with Giulio unleashing intense horror, by confronting Stella with a disturbing vision of nightmares in the room.
View on the film:
About to take her own life until a stranger knocks on the door,Camilla Filippi gives a gripping performance as Stella,whose wrought emotions are laid bare by Filippi across the floor as Stella begins to experience increased horrifying friction with the stranger. Entering only giving the most vague outline to his background, Guido Caprino gives an enticing turn as Giulio, whose elusiveness Caprino uses to make Giulio more enticing, as revelations to Giulio's background spiral out of the room.
Whilst the large single location does not feature a actual ghost, co-writer (with Francesco Agostini and Filippo Gili) / director Stefano Lodovichi & cinematographer Timoty Aliprandi build an eerie, haunted presence inside the confines with long gliding shots across the house, which recoil on tense fractured whip-pans bouncing on the sounds of events from the past,which linger on within the walls.
Locking everyone in to the single location, the screenplay by Lodovichi/Agostini and Gili cleverly criss-cross psychological Thriller with a Horror altering of time, via chipping away at the background which caused Stella's attempt to end her life, that expands into unravelling the true reason the stranger Giulio is paying a visit, with Giulio unleashing intense horror, by confronting Stella with a disturbing vision of nightmares in the room.