I love it when we get a classy piece of psychological horror set up against a good human situation premise with more practical effects than CG effects if there was at all. This is a great mix of Rosemary's baby and the Slasher genre
.just bloody beautiful, from the opening bloody red 80's type of credits as well as an 80's-like soundtrack to the stand out finale. Definitely 'less is more' works charms in this movie with the subtle direction and vulnerable acting on behalf of the fresh Alex Essoe as Sarah who resents her pathetic life and loser friends so much that she sells herself to the Devil in order to achieve fame and be a big super star. Paying the price for her transformation besides herself is her friends whom she ends up killing all and that plays as an extreme exaggeration of how she felt for her friends or more specifically her roommate's friends who never done anything helpful for her, one is always a bitch to her, always cunning and envious, and Danny who is constantly changing his mind about making her the lead role of his movie or choosing Erin whose always jealous of Alex and patronises her, and one time you feel he is emotionally interested in her than you see him in bed with Erin.
Stand out scenes are the second audition scene executed with very nice editing, the night pool scene, and amazingly Alex's rebirth scene, a bit reminiscent of Night of the Living Dead with her hands sticking out the muddy earth, against the backdrop of the city, and concluding that scene with a red packaged gift with a small HAPPY BIRTHDAY card is a nice touch.
Stand out scenes are the second audition scene executed with very nice editing, the night pool scene, and amazingly Alex's rebirth scene, a bit reminiscent of Night of the Living Dead with her hands sticking out the muddy earth, against the backdrop of the city, and concluding that scene with a red packaged gift with a small HAPPY BIRTHDAY card is a nice touch.