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Little Voice (2018)
Poor editing leads to poor pacing in what could have been a fun film.
I recently saw this film at Chicago horror film festival.
The movie starts out with the theme music playing of the a black screen with on the word "overture" showing in white. This goes on for at least a minute before the word slowly fades out. As the music continues, the "production company" clip rolls and continues into the opening credits. The whole thing takes about 4 minutes of the 19 minute run time.
The young actors do a good, but overly dramatic job. The principal is very stiff. The acting is not helped by the editing. Instead of cutting to the dialogue, there are awkward pauses before anyone speaks.
The biggest issue is the almost continuous cross-dissolves. The dissolves were actually giving me a headache. The two images would merge and nothing would be clear or in focus. And these dissolves were slow and tedious. As the POV camera would start to stalk, the image would merge with something unrelated. It slow and frustrating. Scenes lacked proper cut-away and cut-to shots to help establish action and and scene climaxes were left totally ambiguous to what if anything happened.
If you removed 95% of the dissolves, and trimmed scenes for pace and dialogue, this movie would infinity more watchable. And the run time would be in the 10 minute range.
End of the Line (2007)
Very tense, very cool.
This movie was a thrill ride. I was moved. This movie pushed me around. Creepy bad guys, claustrophobic setting, and very different idea.
The creatures were well done, and could leave you with nightmares for weeks. But, like all great horror movies, Its your fellow man that offers the most threat.
I loved it.
Maybe Hollywood should take half the budget from (which ever remake is coming out on the week you are reading this), and give to some of these truly independent filmmakers and make an original movie.
I loved this movie.
It was such a fun ride.
Tree (2007)
Better with a re-edit
The premise was good, but I found the movie losing focus, or not driving the theme home enough. There was a lot of talk about visions but maybe only 2 fulfillments (The wife's father and the little girls, who's seemed self-fulfilling.).
The cinematography was, in general pretty well done, however there were a couple of soft focus shots that were heard to get over.
I thought the story could have been tightened up by 5-10 minutes. The dad was a bit too brooding. It made the end very predictable. The final vision however was brilliant.
And for God's sake get a chainsaw.