Horst_In_Translation Review of Peekers

Peekers (2008)

Okay story and ideas, even if the execution could have been better

[6/10 · 14 June 2017]

"Peekers" is an American English-language short film from 2008, so this one will have its 10th anniversary next year. The writer and director is Mark Steensland and this is one of his most known works and also same applies to the two writers and the cast, even if for the latter it doesn't mean much because the actors are hardly professional actors looking at their bodies of work. The two who play the old couple could even be husband and wife in real life looking at their names. The story here is fairly effective for an 8-minute movie. A man just wants to eat breakfast, but is called by a neighbor to his house where strange happenings occur apparently. The wife stands upstairs and talks weird stuff while she should be somewhere entirely else. Creeped out by the same thing happening to the old man too, our hero leaves for his own house again, but he took something with him. So yeah, this honestly looked like a pretty low budget production and I am not sure if I see any talent in here in terms of acting or directing, but the story makes it worth watching and lets me ignore (at least to some extent) the fact that the production values and overall outcome look pretty cheap and amateurish. I still give it a thumbs-up, Worth seeing for spooky film lovers.