The Man in the Orange Jacket

A man is laid off from his job and no longer needs to wear the titular orange jacket. He goes to his ex-boss's house and gets revenge. He moves in with suspicious ease and lives a life of luxury, but then sees his own "man in an orange jacket" coming to get him.

So the stage is set for a psycho-horror-thriller flick with some obvious commentary on class struggle.

After quitting a few horror movies I had tried to watch previously, I thought "The Man in the Orange Jacket" might be another one I give up on. It wasn't. I was immediately struck by the way the movie is filmed and the low-key dialogue and performances, which have a captivating effect. That, in addition to its short length, meant I knew I was going to watch this one to the very end.

Unfortunately it kind of fell apart toward the end, and I felt less interested in it. But if this really is Latvia's first horror movie, you can't help but be impressed. It reminded me of a Kazakh horror flick I watched recently. Both movies were superbly well made, showing us that these underrepresented countries absolutely do have the reserve of talent to mix with any other country's filmmakers.