After being the first ever film festival that I attended, I went into 2020 looking forward to going to the Birmingham Horror film festival Cine-Excess again. With everything having been cancelled this year,I was happily surprised to find the festival was this year being held online, leading to me chopping into the first screening of the event.
View on the film:
Serving up a opening slice of psycho home invasion pizza delivery guy mysterious gaining access to their flat, co-write/(with Andrew Ericksen) editor/ director Rony Patel swings in with a hip, chic atmosphere of neon light being swiped across the screen to each swift panning shot towards the couple chopping the invader out of their lives. Subtitling the opening scene, Patel slices the long night of crime the couple get caught up in with slick chapter headings and txt messages popping up on screen, which are wiped off with repeatedly ill-judged hard-edits into black, that come off as awkward pauses.
Clearly inspired by Quentin Tarantino, the writers try to crack a snappy, comedic Horror crime flick, but fizzle out from the opening in either making the characters stand out with a unique edge, or the quirks in the plot,to be enticing.
Hinting of a surprise secret by what appears to be supernatural powers the pizza guy has to enter the flat, the writers waste the potential by dropping it with no real set-up, or a neat pay-off,a style that is sadly cut across the whole of the movie, going for shock, but without giving space to establish the reason for the shock, or space for the aftermath of each twist which would have allowed them to make more of a impact, before being placed in the chopper.
View on the film:
Serving up a opening slice of psycho home invasion pizza delivery guy mysterious gaining access to their flat, co-write/(with Andrew Ericksen) editor/ director Rony Patel swings in with a hip, chic atmosphere of neon light being swiped across the screen to each swift panning shot towards the couple chopping the invader out of their lives. Subtitling the opening scene, Patel slices the long night of crime the couple get caught up in with slick chapter headings and txt messages popping up on screen, which are wiped off with repeatedly ill-judged hard-edits into black, that come off as awkward pauses.
Clearly inspired by Quentin Tarantino, the writers try to crack a snappy, comedic Horror crime flick, but fizzle out from the opening in either making the characters stand out with a unique edge, or the quirks in the plot,to be enticing.
Hinting of a surprise secret by what appears to be supernatural powers the pizza guy has to enter the flat, the writers waste the potential by dropping it with no real set-up, or a neat pay-off,a style that is sadly cut across the whole of the movie, going for shock, but without giving space to establish the reason for the shock, or space for the aftermath of each twist which would have allowed them to make more of a impact, before being placed in the chopper.