It is evident that whoever made this movie has some nice taste in classic horror and knows well how it should be done, so kudos to the director.
The plot is canonical and straightforward, yet solid and entertaining.
Overall the movie is good in many ways, yet still not so good in others.
The execution is not ideal, though mainly it seems just limited to the budget. I am convinced that this is the main flaw of the movie, I see that it could've benefitted greatly from a higher budget and might've even become a great classic, if it had one.
Atmoshpere created in the movie is good, story develops quickly and nicely, but again, I believe it could've been much better, if creators just had more money to spend on decorations, makeup, camera views, CGi (although I really prefer good old makeup over CGi any day) and etc. It could've been scarier, more grotesque and dark, more malevolent.
Once the beast emerges to our view in the light, movie kind of goes down in scare department, I believe they had to either make it bigger and scarier, or more dreadful to be shown off like that, or just stick to that good old trick of only showing it partially and in the dark, to keep the scare level and hold the imminent threat atmoshere to the maximum until the end.
I guess, introducing some twists and/or complications to the culmination part would also improved the overall moive score for this one in my eyes.
Anyways, my respect to the director, it's a good piece, hope he'll get to make more movies like this and will learn to make them even better. Today's movie industry really needs this.
The plot is canonical and straightforward, yet solid and entertaining.
Overall the movie is good in many ways, yet still not so good in others.
The execution is not ideal, though mainly it seems just limited to the budget. I am convinced that this is the main flaw of the movie, I see that it could've benefitted greatly from a higher budget and might've even become a great classic, if it had one.
Atmoshpere created in the movie is good, story develops quickly and nicely, but again, I believe it could've been much better, if creators just had more money to spend on decorations, makeup, camera views, CGi (although I really prefer good old makeup over CGi any day) and etc. It could've been scarier, more grotesque and dark, more malevolent.
Once the beast emerges to our view in the light, movie kind of goes down in scare department, I believe they had to either make it bigger and scarier, or more dreadful to be shown off like that, or just stick to that good old trick of only showing it partially and in the dark, to keep the scare level and hold the imminent threat atmoshere to the maximum until the end.
I guess, introducing some twists and/or complications to the culmination part would also improved the overall moive score for this one in my eyes.
Anyways, my respect to the director, it's a good piece, hope he'll get to make more movies like this and will learn to make them even better. Today's movie industry really needs this.