This homage to the 1950s is the sort of story that would have slotted right into The Outer Limits or The Twilight Zone but it is primarily a love letter to radio plays like War of the Worlds, showing what can be done with crafty camera work a good cast and strong suggestion, with director Andrew Patterson and writers Craig W Sanger and James Montague working filmmaking rhythms and beats to their advantage.
The action is framed throughout as an episode of a TV show called Paradox Theater, with cutaways to an old cathode ray television - it's a device that could be gimmicky in the wrong hands - but like everything here, Patterson deploys it sparingly and at just the right moments. He begins at a rattling pace as we're introduced to radio DJ Everett (Jake Horowitz) and his friend, peppy switchboard operator Fay (Sierra McCormick) ahead of a...
The action is framed throughout as an episode of a TV show called Paradox Theater, with cutaways to an old cathode ray television - it's a device that could be gimmicky in the wrong hands - but like everything here, Patterson deploys it sparingly and at just the right moments. He begins at a rattling pace as we're introduced to radio DJ Everett (Jake Horowitz) and his friend, peppy switchboard operator Fay (Sierra McCormick) ahead of a...
- 5/28/2020
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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