Struggling musician gets some cheap studio time over the weekend to produce a track for his big break on a compilation album, his female friend (with benefits)/co-musician starts picking up on some weird background sounds in the studio, it all leads back to some obscure late 60s druggie/occult musician who used the same studio for evil purposes back then.
If that sounds like a good plot for a quickie horror movie, I very much agree! As well, both the acting and camera-work is competent for a micro- budget, straight-to-video production. But oh, watch and marvel at how they *absolutely ruin* what might have been an OK movie by inserting shrieky, screamy, pointless smash cuts (look it up) every few minutes to try to add an element of dread to a film that basically takes place in two or three tiny studio rooms. Someone sitting at the console mixing board? Well, that's boring, so let's smash cut to someone bloody and shrieking with "crazy guy" writing all over his body. Or, hell, let's just smash cut to shadowy figures lurking in the background, although that doesn't make a bit of sense in our story.
In the never-ending race for which modern horror editing trick annoys me more -- found footage shaky-cam or random, shrieky smash cuts -- the latter just took the lead by a few lengths after having to sit through an hour and a half of them.
If that sounds like a good plot for a quickie horror movie, I very much agree! As well, both the acting and camera-work is competent for a micro- budget, straight-to-video production. But oh, watch and marvel at how they *absolutely ruin* what might have been an OK movie by inserting shrieky, screamy, pointless smash cuts (look it up) every few minutes to try to add an element of dread to a film that basically takes place in two or three tiny studio rooms. Someone sitting at the console mixing board? Well, that's boring, so let's smash cut to someone bloody and shrieking with "crazy guy" writing all over his body. Or, hell, let's just smash cut to shadowy figures lurking in the background, although that doesn't make a bit of sense in our story.
In the never-ending race for which modern horror editing trick annoys me more -- found footage shaky-cam or random, shrieky smash cuts -- the latter just took the lead by a few lengths after having to sit through an hour and a half of them.