A game designer has already been turning the dreams and life of an ex-girlfriend into a video game when she asks him to go with her to visit the house she just inherited. As you can guess things get very strange from there.
The plot doesn't have more that I could reveal without spoiler alerts so I won't.
The film itself is interesting. It looks like the very game they are making with everything except a score of some kind displayed. There is an mix of video, film and other types of images that work to help breed tension and a sense of other worldliness. The weird designs of the house and of what is found there are suitably creepy and frankly the real reason to see the movie.
Visuals aside this is a slow film. Much of the first half is little more than a walk through of the house. Its creepy and gives you a sense of place but it goes on for so long. Its too much like a video game where you explore a house. Once the plot goes into real motion things become more interesting but not completely rational, even in the movies own logic scheme.
Is this a bad film?
No it just doesn't live up to the promise of the visuals and the beginning.
Is the film for everyone? No. I think it'll run about 50/50 as to love and hate. The visuals and the newish take on how to put a film together are whats the draw here. If you can take a visually interesting but slowly told film try it, otherwise stay away.
The plot doesn't have more that I could reveal without spoiler alerts so I won't.
The film itself is interesting. It looks like the very game they are making with everything except a score of some kind displayed. There is an mix of video, film and other types of images that work to help breed tension and a sense of other worldliness. The weird designs of the house and of what is found there are suitably creepy and frankly the real reason to see the movie.
Visuals aside this is a slow film. Much of the first half is little more than a walk through of the house. Its creepy and gives you a sense of place but it goes on for so long. Its too much like a video game where you explore a house. Once the plot goes into real motion things become more interesting but not completely rational, even in the movies own logic scheme.
Is this a bad film?
No it just doesn't live up to the promise of the visuals and the beginning.
Is the film for everyone? No. I think it'll run about 50/50 as to love and hate. The visuals and the newish take on how to put a film together are whats the draw here. If you can take a visually interesting but slowly told film try it, otherwise stay away.
