Platypuschow
Joined Jan 2015
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Plot
Young guy wants to be superhero. He worships to Lucifer in the old abandoned house. One day, somebody shot him. The guy didn't die. He reborn as new evil.
Cast
Not familiar with anybody involved.
Verdict
In the Night Silence is a messy Russian blink and you'll miss it horror short set almost entirely in near complete darkness with a brick for a camera and some of the most embarrassing narration you've ever heard. At no point do you feel like you're watching something with an actual storyline, more the emo ramblings of an angry at the world 11 year old. Like horror? There is none. Like short films? It's not one. Avoid like your life depends on it.
Rants
The fact this is supposedly an award winner is something I find truly hilarious, I struggle to believe that many people believe this is even remotely viewable let alone award winning. I assume it's dishonesty or nepotism, either that or Russia simply doesn't make enough films that meet the criteria so its competition was thin or non-existent.
The Good
Nothing comes to mind
The Bad
Dreadful dialogue Awful narration Visually hideous Genuinely cringe inducing throughout.
Young guy wants to be superhero. He worships to Lucifer in the old abandoned house. One day, somebody shot him. The guy didn't die. He reborn as new evil.
Cast
Not familiar with anybody involved.
Verdict
In the Night Silence is a messy Russian blink and you'll miss it horror short set almost entirely in near complete darkness with a brick for a camera and some of the most embarrassing narration you've ever heard. At no point do you feel like you're watching something with an actual storyline, more the emo ramblings of an angry at the world 11 year old. Like horror? There is none. Like short films? It's not one. Avoid like your life depends on it.
Rants
The fact this is supposedly an award winner is something I find truly hilarious, I struggle to believe that many people believe this is even remotely viewable let alone award winning. I assume it's dishonesty or nepotism, either that or Russia simply doesn't make enough films that meet the criteria so its competition was thin or non-existent.
The Good
Nothing comes to mind
The Bad
Dreadful dialogue Awful narration Visually hideous Genuinely cringe inducing throughout.
Plot
A young runner, on a Zombie film set, has the first day from hell when real Zombies overrun the set.
Cast
Not familiar with anyone involved
Verdict
So the premise is that during the filming of a zombie movie real zombies attack, does that sound familiar to you? If it doesn't you can't watch many zombie films because I can think of 4-5 flicks with exactly the same concept! 2017's One Cut of the Dead arguably being the best of the bunch. So originality? Not so much on view here.
Visually it looks the part and the cast are competent enough, the trouble is that though this is a zombie comedy it's light on zombies and erm....laughs. You know what it does have? Cliches, tropes and all the standard scenes you expect from a mediocre zombie film.
I was enjoying it initially, alas this didn't last and it fell back on every cliche imaginable and left me querying whether I'd already seen it because it felt so remarkably recycled.
I see what they were trying to do here, but they relied too much on what had come before rather than carving the movie its own identity. The end result, something you've practically seen before.
Rants
Horror is my default genre and within that zombie films are my favourite sub-genre so as you can imagine I've seen far too many and that is really starting to cost me. I feel like I've seen everything, that every zombie movie I watch I fail to enjoy because I've seen too much before and everything feels like a remake of what's come before. I need and appreciate originality more than ever but this sub-genre is stale and you simply don't see enough of it!
The Good
Some decent ideas Fairly well made
The Bad
Very little originality Falls apart the further in it goes.
A young runner, on a Zombie film set, has the first day from hell when real Zombies overrun the set.
Cast
Not familiar with anyone involved
Verdict
So the premise is that during the filming of a zombie movie real zombies attack, does that sound familiar to you? If it doesn't you can't watch many zombie films because I can think of 4-5 flicks with exactly the same concept! 2017's One Cut of the Dead arguably being the best of the bunch. So originality? Not so much on view here.
Visually it looks the part and the cast are competent enough, the trouble is that though this is a zombie comedy it's light on zombies and erm....laughs. You know what it does have? Cliches, tropes and all the standard scenes you expect from a mediocre zombie film.
I was enjoying it initially, alas this didn't last and it fell back on every cliche imaginable and left me querying whether I'd already seen it because it felt so remarkably recycled.
I see what they were trying to do here, but they relied too much on what had come before rather than carving the movie its own identity. The end result, something you've practically seen before.
Rants
Horror is my default genre and within that zombie films are my favourite sub-genre so as you can imagine I've seen far too many and that is really starting to cost me. I feel like I've seen everything, that every zombie movie I watch I fail to enjoy because I've seen too much before and everything feels like a remake of what's come before. I need and appreciate originality more than ever but this sub-genre is stale and you simply don't see enough of it!
The Good
Some decent ideas Fairly well made
The Bad
Very little originality Falls apart the further in it goes.
Plot
Rachel is introduced to a viral craze of allowing people who living the walls out into the world. This ends up badly and when her parents don't believe her two kids from her school do as they attempt to fight back against these creatures.
Cast
Not familiar with anybody involved
Verdict
Now let me say straight out of the gate that the majority of the movies I watch aren't your AAA Hollywood films they're B movies, they're independent, they're low budget so I'm no elitist and have no silly expectations, I respect the limitations and take them into consideration. That said, The People in the Walls is a movie so dire that my missus bowed out of it and requested I watch the last 30 minutes by myself.
So let's break it down. The premise isn't the worst, but here it's so underdeveloped and poorly handled it may as well be. The cast range from average to having no business in front of the camera and sadly the latter is our two leading ladies who are beyond bad. The cinematography is an odd one, you see their equipment is decent and they could easily have you believing you're watching a film with a decent budget if it weren't for the incompetence of those behind the camera! The camera work is embarrassing, the transitions very poor, the attempts at interesting shots are cliched and poorly managed and the sound balancing is so poor I found myself sat there with the remote to raise and lower it multiple times throughout the movie.
The People in the Walls is a shoddy mess and everyone involved should quite frankly be embarrassed to have been part of it especially those responsible for its very creation.
Rants
The sad thing is if this had been fleshed out a bit, the audio balancing fixed, the camera work being better and the two girls being recast this could have actually been watchable. Alas those things are all present and this is a very regrettable viewing that should have certain people such as the Crum's bowing out of the industry and doing a public apology to everyone who had the misfortune to watch their film.
The Good
For a moment near the end I actually thought they'd got their act together......a moment
The Bad
Sound balancing is terrible Camera work is shoddy Weak writing The lead girls are simply not actresses.
Rachel is introduced to a viral craze of allowing people who living the walls out into the world. This ends up badly and when her parents don't believe her two kids from her school do as they attempt to fight back against these creatures.
Cast
Not familiar with anybody involved
Verdict
Now let me say straight out of the gate that the majority of the movies I watch aren't your AAA Hollywood films they're B movies, they're independent, they're low budget so I'm no elitist and have no silly expectations, I respect the limitations and take them into consideration. That said, The People in the Walls is a movie so dire that my missus bowed out of it and requested I watch the last 30 minutes by myself.
So let's break it down. The premise isn't the worst, but here it's so underdeveloped and poorly handled it may as well be. The cast range from average to having no business in front of the camera and sadly the latter is our two leading ladies who are beyond bad. The cinematography is an odd one, you see their equipment is decent and they could easily have you believing you're watching a film with a decent budget if it weren't for the incompetence of those behind the camera! The camera work is embarrassing, the transitions very poor, the attempts at interesting shots are cliched and poorly managed and the sound balancing is so poor I found myself sat there with the remote to raise and lower it multiple times throughout the movie.
The People in the Walls is a shoddy mess and everyone involved should quite frankly be embarrassed to have been part of it especially those responsible for its very creation.
Rants
The sad thing is if this had been fleshed out a bit, the audio balancing fixed, the camera work being better and the two girls being recast this could have actually been watchable. Alas those things are all present and this is a very regrettable viewing that should have certain people such as the Crum's bowing out of the industry and doing a public apology to everyone who had the misfortune to watch their film.
The Good
For a moment near the end I actually thought they'd got their act together......a moment
The Bad
Sound balancing is terrible Camera work is shoddy Weak writing The lead girls are simply not actresses.