Director: Giorgio Amato. Review: Adam Wing. Another day, another ‘found footage’ thriller. Closed Circuit (based on the novel Circuito Chiuso) is an English language horror movie set in Rome. On April 15th 2010, Francesca Pardi, 23, mysteriously disappeared into thin air. After months of searching with no success, two of her friends convince themselves that David De Santis is involved. The judge following the case doesn’t believe them. Claudia and Daniele take the law into their own hands when they break into his house and set up spy cameras to find out the truth, but what they discover is about to tear their worlds apart. Claudia finds herself in the eye of the storm, about to witness first hand the full force of David’s terrifying secret. Amato’s adaptation of his own novel is formulaic, predictable and largely uneventful, but in the right hands Closed Circuit could’ve been so much more.
- 9/25/2012
- 24framespersecond.net
★★★☆☆ Giorgio Amato's Italian found footage horror Closed Circuit Extreme (2012) is a truly petrifying look at the actions of a lonely rapist serial killer, as seen through the lenses of CCTV cameras secretly installed by two suspicious college students. Expertly directed by Amato from his novel Circuito Chiuso, Closed Circuit Extreme maintains a high level of tension throughout through hyper-realistic touches, and a claustrophobic atmosphere enhanced by being shot almost exclusively in a one-person house in the suburbs of Rome.
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- 6/9/2012
- by CineVue
- CineVue
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