Ha ha - interesting to read the reviews on this, because it is a love/hate experience.
First up I'm in a barren location presented as real. Then the weird landlady lays some foreboding on me (I strain to hear her poorly recorded lines), and suddenly I'm thinking I've actually died and me watching this film is a version of Hell.
Then I'm in an apocalypse, the end of days. Then a smoky creature chases me. Then I figure maybe it's all my fault, and the landlady lays some mystical exposition on me and I wake up and save myself.
It does all tie up in the end, and it is quite touching. The final shot in the morgue made me suspect there's some real experience behind this concept.
Apart from the landlady the actors don't create much of an impression. Can't remember when I've seen both leads being overweight. The editing is a bit crunchy, with some scenes stitched (!) together too tight and various little non sequiturs. No need to comment on the special effects.
At one point it reminded me of Coherence, which also used the idea of parallel lives. But this has a different take, although I don't think it's really a horror either because there's no external agent.
Overall if exposition is needed in the end it's a fail, but then most of us don't want to spend days figuring out the brilliance of another David Lynch nightmare.
ps. I wonder if the eclipse image is a deliberate reference to Ringu?
First up I'm in a barren location presented as real. Then the weird landlady lays some foreboding on me (I strain to hear her poorly recorded lines), and suddenly I'm thinking I've actually died and me watching this film is a version of Hell.
Then I'm in an apocalypse, the end of days. Then a smoky creature chases me. Then I figure maybe it's all my fault, and the landlady lays some mystical exposition on me and I wake up and save myself.
It does all tie up in the end, and it is quite touching. The final shot in the morgue made me suspect there's some real experience behind this concept.
Apart from the landlady the actors don't create much of an impression. Can't remember when I've seen both leads being overweight. The editing is a bit crunchy, with some scenes stitched (!) together too tight and various little non sequiturs. No need to comment on the special effects.
At one point it reminded me of Coherence, which also used the idea of parallel lives. But this has a different take, although I don't think it's really a horror either because there's no external agent.
Overall if exposition is needed in the end it's a fail, but then most of us don't want to spend days figuring out the brilliance of another David Lynch nightmare.
ps. I wonder if the eclipse image is a deliberate reference to Ringu?