A Film by Vera Vaughn (2015) User Reviews

provocative

[Kirpianuscus · 28 November 2023]

A lady editing a film . Alone, front the computer, in night.

In other apartment, a lady editing a film, to. The first woman is the actresss. Off course, many references to many films from different genres.

But the presumed answers are reduced to pure tension when a phone call proposes the connection between them.

The last scenes are fair answer to a confrontation who makes as correct each supposition of viewer.

The demons of creator , the spy of neighbor, the manipulation, some Twinlight Zone , each of them is presumed source and destination of this short film, fascinating for smart manner to use a not original start point .

Tight delivery of a plot that delivers in the instance even if it doesn't stick longer than that

[bob the moo · 19 November 2016]

The idea of the film inside a film is not new or uncommon, but here it is done very well by how tight it plays it. The action is essentially focused in one room with one actress and one computer; the character is editing a horror film although finds that the footage she is working on is footage of herself coming in her own door as she just did.

The delivery from there is deliberately twisted in the way it jumps from one scene to the next, but yet at the same time it is very simply done – it is not really as twisty as some suggest. Instead it is a solid thriller with the twisty element layered on top of something which already works pretty well. As such it is a solid piece of work that engages and creeps. The plotting is perhaps not as mind-f**ky as it would like to be, but it works in the moment, even if it doesn't have sufficient internal logic to work in the memory – although really, for a short film, it doesn't need to deliver this – and it works where it matters, during viewing.