StTerence Reviews

The Dark Below (2015)

Cool, Wordless, Survival Film

[7/10 · 22 June 2017]

Overall an excellent film for the survival genre. If you liked "Buried" or "127 Hours" then this film is probably right up your alley. The cinematography is beautiful and the score fantastic. There is a lot of use of slow motion which can be frustrating but it's generally used for an artistic purpose. Much of the film feels like a memory because of that and the cinematography. It's not a perfect film and there's a thing or two I would've done differently but I enjoyed watching and would watch it again.

Dark Fields (2009)

A New Approach to Old School Horror

[8/10 · 30 March 2011]

It's a beautifully shot and composed indie horror film which strays from the standard, boring slasher and/or torture porn elements so prevalent in the genre and actually delivers a story! With characters and plot! It is at the end of the day a low budget film so it's not perfect but it's still a lot better than most of the crap released direct to DVD in order to keep a steady stream of new arrivals on the shelves.

Best Parts: the cinematography, score, production design and Richard Lynch and Ellen Sandweiss' acting Least Impressive Parts: Some of the CG effects aren't great, story is kinda slow and some of the other acting is a bit stiff Overall it has some flaws but makes up for them by being a tremendously ambitious and interesting classic style horror film.

Zombie Honeymoon (2004)

What a great, kick ass, film.

[10/10 · 12 January 2006]

I caught this flick at the Slamdance film festival back in January and loved it. Admittedly, I only saw it because the director offered to refund my 10 bucks if I didn't like it, but I did enjoy it and therefore never got my 10 bucks back. But what's not to like, it's got a young zombie in love and what's better than that? Nothing I tell you. The whole thing was done quite well. Shot well, edited well, acted well, directed well and written well. The effects were also great. Apparently it was shot digitally but is done well enough that one doesn't mind unlike many direct to video time films that were shot digitally and look as if they were done so with a home Mini-DV. I believe a Canon XL 2 was used for ZH and that's a wonderful camera to work with if you have to shoot digitally. Anyways, I look forward to ZH coming out on DVD so I can see it again for the first time in a year.