Title: The Rift
Director: Dejan Zecevic
Year: 2016
Length: 1h 30m
Rating: NR
Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Yay, Nay, or Meh: Neh
My first thought upon finishing this is what in the HELL did I just watch. It's not the worst movie I've ever seen, not by far, but whatever story it started out with spiraled out of control over the course of it. Unless maybe that was the point? Because the action in the movie also kind of spirals out of control over the course of the thing. There are a whole lot of concepts that are brought up, non-explained, and then dismissed again, and I find myself feeling way more confused than I was before the movie tried to explain itself. I was also seriously annoyed by the fact that the monster-person-alien-thing was supposed to be cryptic but was not at all cryptic but all the characters still treated it like it was cryptic. Death means nothing here? Means zombies. Dead people coming back to life? It's zombies. Death is dead? ZOMBIES. Boy in grave with picture of boy on it? DING DING DING it's a zombie. Come on now. Though why alien = zombie is something that I couldn't explain. But that's fine, because the movie doesn't know either. There's also a couple of less-than-sensitive throw-offs about a couple of the characters having mental illnesses to some degree or another,which then turn into plot points/points of conflict. That certainly could have been handled better. I can't recommend this with any good conscience, because it's not a good movie, but it is kind of fun if you're in the mood for a laugh and try not to think about it too much.