Deciding to go for two Horror DVD's from CEX before seeing Dune (2021-also reviewed) at the cinema. Getting The Skeptic (2009-also reviewed),I looked for another title to pair it up with. Having enjoyed Australian Horror films such as The Babadook (2014-also reviewed) I got ready to see this coffin rockin.
View on the film:
Breaking the calm of this small town, Sam Parsonson gives a terrific, twitchy performance as Evan, who slithers round town wearing a thin smile, a dirty hoodie and keeps his head down, until a brief encounter with Jessie, cracks open the psycho killer brutality under the surface of Evan's grin.
Getting intimate with Evan when drunk one night, Lisa Chappell gives a great performance as Jessie, who Chappell has battle anxiety over Evan's increasingly nasty behaviour, with a sharp fearfulness, of her husband discovering what has happened.
Reeling in all the details Jessie attempts to keep private, writer/director Rupert Glasson unveils a stylish feature film debut, via closely working with cinematographer David Foreman in starkly contrasting camera styles, introducing Jessie on the beach in peaceful tracking shots that spin into dolly shots which bring out a up-close documentary quality as they span the small fishing shop Jessie and her husband own,that gets burnt down by frantic, slick hand-held camera moves,as whirlwind Evan enters.
Chewing a tasty bit of Ozploitation in a sequence involving a fish, the screenplay by Glasson grills a lean psycho Horror Thriller, as flashbacks ignite Evan from a creep into a full-blown nutter, whose vicious mind-games push Jessie to the edge of the coffin rock.
View on the film:
Breaking the calm of this small town, Sam Parsonson gives a terrific, twitchy performance as Evan, who slithers round town wearing a thin smile, a dirty hoodie and keeps his head down, until a brief encounter with Jessie, cracks open the psycho killer brutality under the surface of Evan's grin.
Getting intimate with Evan when drunk one night, Lisa Chappell gives a great performance as Jessie, who Chappell has battle anxiety over Evan's increasingly nasty behaviour, with a sharp fearfulness, of her husband discovering what has happened.
Reeling in all the details Jessie attempts to keep private, writer/director Rupert Glasson unveils a stylish feature film debut, via closely working with cinematographer David Foreman in starkly contrasting camera styles, introducing Jessie on the beach in peaceful tracking shots that spin into dolly shots which bring out a up-close documentary quality as they span the small fishing shop Jessie and her husband own,that gets burnt down by frantic, slick hand-held camera moves,as whirlwind Evan enters.
Chewing a tasty bit of Ozploitation in a sequence involving a fish, the screenplay by Glasson grills a lean psycho Horror Thriller, as flashbacks ignite Evan from a creep into a full-blown nutter, whose vicious mind-games push Jessie to the edge of the coffin rock.