Whit AlexanderREVIEW: Left in Darkness
May 16th 2008 20:45
I recently obtained NetFlix, and the 'watch as many movies as you want online' is completely awesome to me. So I was browsing to see what I should watch, and came across this little gem with an interesting description.
Starring Monica Keena as Celia and David Anders as her mysterious guardian Donovan, this movie is about a young woman who was drugged, raped, then overdosed and died. When she dies she remains in the house where she died, and she has two hours to figure out what to do before she is completely vulnerable to angry creatures that want her soul. Two hours to find the door to heaven, as it were.
This was a surprisingly good movie. It took a little long to get to her death, I think. There was a 3-minute-long party montage that served no purpose other than to show that it was a wild party, and that could have been done in a minute or less. If they were trying to show that she was so liquored up she couldn't walk straight that would have been understandable, but she doesn't seem visibly drunk. In fact, she's not impaired at all until given the drink with the drug in it.
That's the only real beef I had with the movie. It's creepy and everything has a distinctly un-real feel to it. The lighting combined with the film (I think they filmed at a lower frame-per-second rate) definitely made an effective creepy feeling movie. There's very little blood, it's not determined to hit you in the face with violence. In point of fact, what little there was of the rape scene was pretty understated. It's more about suspense, which I think the movie and the actors handle pretty well. Donovan is comforting, but somehow... not right. Which is definitely the point. The actor reminds me of Neil Patrick Harris- specifically when he was in the movie Starship Troopers, but don't ask me why.
It's a very good little movie, definitely one of the best 'holy shit I died' movies I've seen in a while. I found it creepy and suspenseful, and it did a lot of work with not much. The plot point is something that hasn't been recycled 8 billion times, too, which is quite refreshing. It might be a little hard to find, but it's a neat little movie.
Starring Monica Keena as Celia and David Anders as her mysterious guardian Donovan, this movie is about a young woman who was drugged, raped, then overdosed and died. When she dies she remains in the house where she died, and she has two hours to figure out what to do before she is completely vulnerable to angry creatures that want her soul. Two hours to find the door to heaven, as it were.
This was a surprisingly good movie. It took a little long to get to her death, I think. There was a 3-minute-long party montage that served no purpose other than to show that it was a wild party, and that could have been done in a minute or less. If they were trying to show that she was so liquored up she couldn't walk straight that would have been understandable, but she doesn't seem visibly drunk. In fact, she's not impaired at all until given the drink with the drug in it.
That's the only real beef I had with the movie. It's creepy and everything has a distinctly un-real feel to it. The lighting combined with the film (I think they filmed at a lower frame-per-second rate) definitely made an effective creepy feeling movie. There's very little blood, it's not determined to hit you in the face with violence. In point of fact, what little there was of the rape scene was pretty understated. It's more about suspense, which I think the movie and the actors handle pretty well. Donovan is comforting, but somehow... not right. Which is definitely the point. The actor reminds me of Neil Patrick Harris- specifically when he was in the movie Starship Troopers, but don't ask me why.
It's a very good little movie, definitely one of the best 'holy shit I died' movies I've seen in a while. I found it creepy and suspenseful, and it did a lot of work with not much. The plot point is something that hasn't been recycled 8 billion times, too, which is quite refreshing. It might be a little hard to find, but it's a neat little movie.
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