The Sublet (2015) follows Joanna, a mother coping with her baby alone in a seemingly haunted sublet apartment whilst her husband neglects her to focus on his career. The film had a lot of potential, and was interesting in a lot of parts, it certainly succeeded at being psychological. However, the last half was a let down.
The movie managed to set the characters up very well, and the acting was fairly decent but nothing too special. I noticed a few slip-ups too unfortunately. The characters were somewhat well written though and enough to keep me intrigued by them!
Visually, this movie was quite good! There were some pretty nice colour palettes. The sets designs were good also and very eerie! I liked the gore because it really caught me off guard, and it looked well too, enough to make me cringe at points.
The score was overbearing at times, and I found myself constantly having to switch the volume up and down. However, some parts of the sound design were good, and added to the ominous tone and atmosphere that the film was trying to portray.
The film was very good at the psychological aspects as it was confusing and mind-bending with some very cool twists and turns that I genuinely didn't expect. The reveal of Alex's dead body near the end was subtle and provided some pay off for the psychological tension. These psychological aspects reminded me of the short story The Yellow Wallpaper and I really liked this!
Unfortunately, not much else was pieced together by the end. The pacing was slow, and I did like the narrative of it being split up into weeks. The movie as a whole wasn't always engaging as it just lacked originality, and things only really started happening 20 minutes from the end. All through the film I was expecting a twist at the end, but the payoff wasn't satisfactory. It didn't explain much at all, but the movie wasn't smart enough to pull this off so it just ended up leaving too many plot holes.
The movie managed to set the characters up very well, and the acting was fairly decent but nothing too special. I noticed a few slip-ups too unfortunately. The characters were somewhat well written though and enough to keep me intrigued by them!
Visually, this movie was quite good! There were some pretty nice colour palettes. The sets designs were good also and very eerie! I liked the gore because it really caught me off guard, and it looked well too, enough to make me cringe at points.
The score was overbearing at times, and I found myself constantly having to switch the volume up and down. However, some parts of the sound design were good, and added to the ominous tone and atmosphere that the film was trying to portray.
The film was very good at the psychological aspects as it was confusing and mind-bending with some very cool twists and turns that I genuinely didn't expect. The reveal of Alex's dead body near the end was subtle and provided some pay off for the psychological tension. These psychological aspects reminded me of the short story The Yellow Wallpaper and I really liked this!
Unfortunately, not much else was pieced together by the end. The pacing was slow, and I did like the narrative of it being split up into weeks. The movie as a whole wasn't always engaging as it just lacked originality, and things only really started happening 20 minutes from the end. All through the film I was expecting a twist at the end, but the payoff wasn't satisfactory. It didn't explain much at all, but the movie wasn't smart enough to pull this off so it just ended up leaving too many plot holes.