Thresher (2014) User Reviews

Excellent Little Short.

[meddlecore · 7/10 · 25 October 2015]

Mike Diva has brought a really nice cult style to this intriguing horror short...and the decor is just beautiful.

Essentially, we find ourselves watching a man stuck in a conundrum. He seems to need to unlock a door which has been chained together and fastened with a series of combination locks...while having no idea what any of the codes are. He's on clock too...but has managed to get down to the final lock...just when time runs out.

Another door opens and dark entities reminiscent of the monsters from "End Of The Line" start to emerge.

In a panic, he makes haste to open the final lock before they descend upon him...

...only to enter into a bizarre and hellish world.

There's also a couple clever little twists at the end...when things get all tentacally.

This is a great short. I'm generally not a huge of the CGI, but it works well in this context. Beautiful style and great envisioning of a Lovecraftian Otherworld. Look forward to seeing more from Mike Diva.

7 out of 10.

Good dark and eerie short tale of a door unlocked...

[Foreverisacastironmess123 · 7/10 · 11 August 2017]

This quick and effective little horror yarn has a very nice creepy Lovecraftian atmospheric edge to it. It features a man trapped in a mysterious and ornately decorated room who by the look of things, has been trying to unlock a very complicated and intricately-sealed door for quite a long time, and as he nears his goal he suddenly finds himself haunted by hideous rictus-grinning phantasms. As they close in on him he does succeed in opening the strange door in the nick of time but instead of sanctuary, it only leads to a much greater nightmare as he finds himself faced with the immensity of a pretty impressively done hellishly bizarre landscape of lightning-blasted alien skies and Cthulhu-inspired gigantic floating tentacled things that soon reach out for him... And then a twist reveals that everything that's happened has all been in the man's mind in a kind of mental plane between life and death, and back in 'reality' he's actually been in a medically-induced coma and has only been the latest in a series of test subjects who have been cruelly harvested by some manner of organisation in an insane ruthless experiment to discover what lies beyond on the other side. Only as the well done jump scare ending reveals as the heartless scientist leans over the corpse of the latest failure for a closer look, in their efforts to get results they seemed to have forgotten that once unlocked, all doors can be opened from either side... I liked how this short was done, I thought it had some good dark visuals and it didn't look too cheaply made, which is a bit of an issue that you get a lot with most horror shorts. It had a spooky and engaging tone and there was some nice practical effects work done on the blue-skinned creatures and even the cgi was fairly well placed, and overall it's a good effective short that has a beginning middle and end and tells its little story well for such a small amount of time. Well worth taking a look at, just make sure it doesn't ~look right back!!~

Interesting Short

[dannyboysinatra69 · 10/10 · 15 January 2015]

I really liked this short film, with the backing of a big budget I would like to see what they do with a feature for this, good timing and use of the dark fantasy horror genre which I love.

A good mix of Silent Hill and Alien.

Good choice of lighting and camera angles. I also like that the main character is slightly dark minded and yet is scared by the darker elements instead of curious. We can all be a little crazy but after all we are still human.

Great set designs by the horror maestro Guillermo Del Toro, I have a feeling this was shot in Bleak House and is the same room used in the short film Dinner by The Brothers Riedell (which once again Guillermo is the creative consultant for)