First of all, let me lead with: What the fuck did I just watch?
I’m pretty sure it’s good, I’ll add that much. Extremely low budget, but good, It’s the kind of low budget which has found a way to make the low budget work in service to the movie.
What we have here is a movie which uses as a frame device the style of a 1940′s style haunted house horror movie. It’s black and white, the aspect ratio is a square, and this allows both for less realistic effects in places, and also permits the actors to deliver stilted performances without necessarily taking you out of the movie. Alright, so that’s clever and the actual cinematography is quite skillful when you pay attention.
It is quite devoted to this device, the the credits, the pacing, the plot. It is also mashed up with with The Evil Dead. Which means that it shifts gears between “spooky 1940s movie” and “splatterpunk gorefest.” And it works? I’m not sure what the fuck has happened but it works?
So the pacing is rather slow, keeping with the framing device, but the camera work and commitment of the actors kept me invested. Then it slips into heads exploding, then the reactions are pure 1940s spook show, and that’s about what you’re in for if you decide to check it out.
Which, I think you should? It’s got this brilliant aesthetic as the characters dressed for a 1920s party increasingly add demon-fighting elements to their overall look. And of course it’s hard not to love a movie that ends with our blood covered heroine staring at the wreckage of the past evening in numb shock.
Finally, I must repeat what, once again, the fuck?
