11-23-2012, 06:21 AM
Sorry for Double post but I just finished Absentia.
Oh my god it was BRILLIANT.
It was genuinely the scariest thing I have seen in a LONG while.
It is pure and true, and almost perfectly done psychological horror. Oh my god this was amazing. I haven't had a film make me close my eyes and block my ears in fear for over a year.
Although it;s a low budget film, the director and crew clearly found imaginative and ingenious ways around the financial strains.
Another thing: this movie really proves that normal people who look normal can be actors, and damn good ones at that. It also shows how indoctrinated and conditioned we are to people in films looking above natural and 'fixed', I couldn't not notice the lack of heavy makeup and careful choosing of only the most attractive people, but despite it, it was genuinely one of my favourite horror flicks of all time/
The worst thing is, the way this was filmed not only draws you into the story but because of the location and the normality of the atmosphere, it really feels like something that could happen ;_; Now I can't do any of the following: open shower curtains, go through tunnels, go upstairs when the downstairs is dark, or meditate. <--- totally not spoilers.
Oh my god it was BRILLIANT.
It was genuinely the scariest thing I have seen in a LONG while.
It is pure and true, and almost perfectly done psychological horror. Oh my god this was amazing. I haven't had a film make me close my eyes and block my ears in fear for over a year.
Although it;s a low budget film, the director and crew clearly found imaginative and ingenious ways around the financial strains.
Another thing: this movie really proves that normal people who look normal can be actors, and damn good ones at that. It also shows how indoctrinated and conditioned we are to people in films looking above natural and 'fixed', I couldn't not notice the lack of heavy makeup and careful choosing of only the most attractive people, but despite it, it was genuinely one of my favourite horror flicks of all time/
The worst thing is, the way this was filmed not only draws you into the story but because of the location and the normality of the atmosphere, it really feels like something that could happen ;_; Now I can't do any of the following: open shower curtains, go through tunnels, go upstairs when the downstairs is dark, or meditate. <--- totally not spoilers.