Chicago – The irony of Dallas Richard Hallam and Patrick Horvath’s immensely unsettling little shocker, “Entrance,” is that it has caused many viewers to exit before the end credits have rolled. A surprising number of critics have complained that the film betrays its audience by setting up a low-key indie drama and then turning the tables in the final act. Clearly, these people weren’t paying attention.
The entire film is constructed like a mounting nightmare, as it follows a troubled everywoman, Suzy (Suziey Block), through her banal daily routine in La. The editing is so fragmented that the days start to blur into one another. We see her get ready for work, chat with her genial roommate Karen (Karen Gorham) and have passionless sex with a loser who attempts to sheepishly sneak out the next morning. It all seems rather mundane, but it gradually becomes apparent that something is rather…...
The entire film is constructed like a mounting nightmare, as it follows a troubled everywoman, Suzy (Suziey Block), through her banal daily routine in La. The editing is so fragmented that the days start to blur into one another. We see her get ready for work, chat with her genial roommate Karen (Karen Gorham) and have passionless sex with a loser who attempts to sheepishly sneak out the next morning. It all seems rather mundane, but it gradually becomes apparent that something is rather…...
- 9/20/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Title: Entrance Directors: Dallas Hallam and Patrick Horvath Starring: Suziey Block, Karen Gorham, Karen Baird, Joshua Grote, Florence Hartigan, Bennett Jones Co-directed by Dallas Hallam and Patrick Horvath, “Entrance” is a deliberately paced indie offering that bills itself as a psychological thriller but in actuality is a fairly aimless tone piece about twentysomething emotional dislocation that only in its final reel leaps somewhat clumsily into genre-oriented skirmish and combat. As a showcase for narrative restraint and a non-forced lead performance by newcomer Suziey Block, the movie works on a theoretical level, but its grip is a bit too slack and its payoff too pointless to really recommend it. The story [ Read More ]...
- 5/21/2012
- by bsimon
- ShockYa
Entrance Trailer. Dallas Richard Hallam, Patrick Horvath‘s Entrance (2012) movie trailer stars Karen Baird, Suziey Block, Farley Burge, Joshua Grote, and Florence Hartigan. Entrance‘s plot synopsis: “exploring the thin line between anxiety and naked horror in the life of Suzy (Suziey Block), a young woman in Los Angeles who can’t get comfortable in her own skin. [...]
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- 5/1/2012
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Check out the trailer and poster for Entrance, directed by Dallas Hallam and Patrick Horvath, starring Suziey Block, Karen Gorham Karen Baird and Joshua Grote. IFC Midnight distributes the new psychological thriller from newcomers Dallas Hallam and Patrick Horvath. An official selection of the Los Angeles Film Festival, Entrance is an intimate character study directed with a formalist restraint. Suziey Block's fearless performance injects both terror and poise as this uniquely-styled thriller climbs from spark to inferno. The film explores the thin line between anxiety and naked horror in the life of Suzy (Suziey Block), a young woman in Los Angeles who can’t get comfortable in her own skin. A loner who wallows in nostalgia and finds herself wandering aimlessly through life in the city, she can’t shake the gnawing suspicion that a true menace grows just outside her field of vision. As she scrambles to take control of her life,...
- 4/26/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Check out the trailer and poster for Entrance, directed by Dallas Hallam and Patrick Horvath, starring Suziey Block, Karen Gorham Karen Baird and Joshua Grote. IFC Midnight distributes the new psychological thriller from newcomers Dallas Hallam and Patrick Horvath. An official selection of the Los Angeles Film Festival, Entrance is an intimate character study directed with a formalist restraint. Suziey Block's fearless performance injects both terror and poise as this uniquely-styled thriller climbs from spark to inferno. The film explores the thin line between anxiety and naked horror in the life of Suzy (Suziey Block), a young woman in Los Angeles who can’t get comfortable in her own skin. A loner who wallows in nostalgia and finds herself wandering aimlessly through life in the city, she can’t shake the gnawing suspicion that a true menace grows just outside her field of vision. As she scrambles to take control of her life,...
- 4/26/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Directed by Dallas Richard Hallam, Patrick Horvath
Starring Suziey Block, Karen Gorham, Joshua Grote, Florence Hartigan, Bennett Jones, Liesel Kopp, Jonathan Margolis, Morgan Phalen
This is one of those Camus-like experiments in existentialism and boredom. Isn't it?
Entrance (Ehn-trance or Ehn-trance, I'm not sure) gleefully boasts in its official synopsis that Suziey the Silverlake barista, the main character of the film, is actually played by Suziey the Silverlake barista, "and the rambling hillside home she inhabits onscreen was director Dallas Hallam’s rental during shooting." For those of you not from Los Angeles, let me explain Silverlake to you: It is a neighborhood in Los Angeles that is full of people Not from Los Angeles - mostly hipsters, actors, and aspiring film industry types who have more money than the Latino population they ousted during the gentrification process of the neighborhood. In short, Silverlake is expensive and ugly, with creeping...
Starring Suziey Block, Karen Gorham, Joshua Grote, Florence Hartigan, Bennett Jones, Liesel Kopp, Jonathan Margolis, Morgan Phalen
This is one of those Camus-like experiments in existentialism and boredom. Isn't it?
Entrance (Ehn-trance or Ehn-trance, I'm not sure) gleefully boasts in its official synopsis that Suziey the Silverlake barista, the main character of the film, is actually played by Suziey the Silverlake barista, "and the rambling hillside home she inhabits onscreen was director Dallas Hallam’s rental during shooting." For those of you not from Los Angeles, let me explain Silverlake to you: It is a neighborhood in Los Angeles that is full of people Not from Los Angeles - mostly hipsters, actors, and aspiring film industry types who have more money than the Latino population they ousted during the gentrification process of the neighborhood. In short, Silverlake is expensive and ugly, with creeping...
- 7/5/2011
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
Reviewed by Elliot V. Kotek
(June 2011, screening at the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival)
Directed by: Dallas Hallam and Patrick Horvath
Written by: Michelle Margolis, Karen Gorham, Dallas Hallam and Patrick Horvath
Starring: Suziey Block, Karen Baird, Karen Gorham and Joshua Grote
Handheld camerawork shot on the fly around Los Angeles by Dallas Hallam sets the tone for this collaboration among a half-dozen creatives.
Following Suziey as she gets by without a car, works at a coffee shop, gets her hair done and falls asleep to a horror movie, we’re unsure of anything story-related and know little other than that she looks good on camera. The lack of any detail upon which to hang our expectations is initially translated (by this audience member) as a confident start to a film that feels as if it’s going to deliver something artistically fulfilling.
One small thud and a series of footsteps later,...
(June 2011, screening at the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival)
Directed by: Dallas Hallam and Patrick Horvath
Written by: Michelle Margolis, Karen Gorham, Dallas Hallam and Patrick Horvath
Starring: Suziey Block, Karen Baird, Karen Gorham and Joshua Grote
Handheld camerawork shot on the fly around Los Angeles by Dallas Hallam sets the tone for this collaboration among a half-dozen creatives.
Following Suziey as she gets by without a car, works at a coffee shop, gets her hair done and falls asleep to a horror movie, we’re unsure of anything story-related and know little other than that she looks good on camera. The lack of any detail upon which to hang our expectations is initially translated (by this audience member) as a confident start to a film that feels as if it’s going to deliver something artistically fulfilling.
One small thud and a series of footsteps later,...
- 6/24/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Reviewed by Elliot V. Kotek
(June 2011, screening at the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival)
Directed by: Dallas Hallam and Patrick Horvath
Written by: Michelle Margolis, Karen Gorham, Dallas Hallam and Patrick Horvath
Starring: Suziey Block, Karen Baird, Karen Gorham and Joshua Grote
Handheld camerawork shot on the fly around Los Angeles by Dallas Hallam sets the tone for this collaboration among a half-dozen creatives.
Following Suziey as she gets by without a car, works at a coffee shop, gets her hair done and falls asleep to a horror movie, we’re unsure of anything story-related and know little other than that she looks good on camera. The lack of any detail upon which to hang our expectations is initially translated (by this audience member) as a confident start to a film that feels as if it’s going to deliver something artistically fulfilling.
One small thud and a series of footsteps later,...
(June 2011, screening at the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival)
Directed by: Dallas Hallam and Patrick Horvath
Written by: Michelle Margolis, Karen Gorham, Dallas Hallam and Patrick Horvath
Starring: Suziey Block, Karen Baird, Karen Gorham and Joshua Grote
Handheld camerawork shot on the fly around Los Angeles by Dallas Hallam sets the tone for this collaboration among a half-dozen creatives.
Following Suziey as she gets by without a car, works at a coffee shop, gets her hair done and falls asleep to a horror movie, we’re unsure of anything story-related and know little other than that she looks good on camera. The lack of any detail upon which to hang our expectations is initially translated (by this audience member) as a confident start to a film that feels as if it’s going to deliver something artistically fulfilling.
One small thud and a series of footsteps later,...
- 6/24/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
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