When looking at the Soho Horror Film Festival line-up, the Comic-Book style poster design made it stand out instantly to me. With it also being the longest of the feature films to be played, I got set to experience this tempest.
View on the film:
Introducing the screening/stream detailing the years it took to get this title made, writer/director Joe Badon reunites with cinematographer/ The Hunt (2020-also reviewed) drone pilot Daniel Waghorne for an ambitious genre mash-up,where the revelations of the crumbling relationship Anne Hutchinson (played with a fitting hazy vibe by Kali Russell in her feature film debut) has with her missing sister, dives from over saturated, surrealist Musical Pop-Art one moment, to icy supernatural High School Horror chills.
Stretched out to two hour runtime, Badon's initial spark of creativity, suffers from everything being pulled pass breaking point, with the plot being picked up,then dumped each time it hits a self-imposed dead-end which Badon can't find an exit to.
This causes the genre crossing to have an awkward, jarring atmosphere,via one moment staging a ultra-stylised set-piece, but dragging it out,to the point where attempts to cross over to another genre/style comes off as a stop/start of this performance of the tempest.
View on the film:
Introducing the screening/stream detailing the years it took to get this title made, writer/director Joe Badon reunites with cinematographer/ The Hunt (2020-also reviewed) drone pilot Daniel Waghorne for an ambitious genre mash-up,where the revelations of the crumbling relationship Anne Hutchinson (played with a fitting hazy vibe by Kali Russell in her feature film debut) has with her missing sister, dives from over saturated, surrealist Musical Pop-Art one moment, to icy supernatural High School Horror chills.
Stretched out to two hour runtime, Badon's initial spark of creativity, suffers from everything being pulled pass breaking point, with the plot being picked up,then dumped each time it hits a self-imposed dead-end which Badon can't find an exit to.
This causes the genre crossing to have an awkward, jarring atmosphere,via one moment staging a ultra-stylised set-piece, but dragging it out,to the point where attempts to cross over to another genre/style comes off as a stop/start of this performance of the tempest.