Wow. I dare say you have never seen such a surreal film unless...well, you have seen THIS masterpiece of surreal cinema. I don't believe the movie was shot on earth or that earthlings were involved in the production, it just feels too otherworldly, and that's how I perceived it just after having watched a movie about a Martian society in which Santa Claus actually existed on earth.
Reportedly the film is about an evil girl killing adults. Well, you wouldn't really know she was evil because the film goes for GLARING CREEPY FROM START TO FINISH! Apart from the chick that stumbles into this hellhole and that we are supposedly meant to identify with every character here exists to creep out the chick (and consequently the viewer). Animals too, although you rarely get to see any. And woods. They are the evilest of them all. For example take the old lady she encounters in the beginning. Acting overly friendly but always implying certain doom in her dialogue. Well, after "our chick" meets the wicked family she suddenly is one whom the viewer is meant to feel for when she gets killed off. As for the evil girl, the only thing that distinguishes her wickedness from the wickedness of the other characters is that she is one wickedly bad actress.
In any other case I'd say the film is "hella stupid" but it creates such a thick atmosphere, mainly with its dense sound design but also with the lively camera-work, that it feels like experiencing a dream and when it becomes more incoherent it just feels even more like a dream. Apparently more effort was put into the sound design than into actually shooting the damn thing - even if the filmmaking here is anything but typical - but the walls of sounds that runs along on the soundtrack, wow. Only one section towards the end of the movie was so dull that even the sound editor simply skipped that part, leaving it untouched, for which I can't blame him, other than that there isn't a quiet second in the film. And did I mention the flick has a piano score? Yeah, MELLOW PIANO! Mixed with a lot of weird sounds.
As for the editing, well, that's a big part of what makes this such a surreal film. Coherence is almost non-existent, almost as if the director of photography after he was done shooting took the pile of film stock that was to be used, threw it onto the editor's floor and the editor then took one random piece of film and tucked it onto the next random piece of film until it was all one piece. Adding to the whole affair probably was the fact that the TV rip I watched was dark as all hell. Overall I very much was reminded of Spielberg's 'Something Evil' also because of the camera-work. So this would be like a incoherent, surreal version of that film. One more thing, this turns into a zombie movie at the end and initially that's also very cool. The weirdness of this flick knows no boundaries.
Reportedly the film is about an evil girl killing adults. Well, you wouldn't really know she was evil because the film goes for GLARING CREEPY FROM START TO FINISH! Apart from the chick that stumbles into this hellhole and that we are supposedly meant to identify with every character here exists to creep out the chick (and consequently the viewer). Animals too, although you rarely get to see any. And woods. They are the evilest of them all. For example take the old lady she encounters in the beginning. Acting overly friendly but always implying certain doom in her dialogue. Well, after "our chick" meets the wicked family she suddenly is one whom the viewer is meant to feel for when she gets killed off. As for the evil girl, the only thing that distinguishes her wickedness from the wickedness of the other characters is that she is one wickedly bad actress.
In any other case I'd say the film is "hella stupid" but it creates such a thick atmosphere, mainly with its dense sound design but also with the lively camera-work, that it feels like experiencing a dream and when it becomes more incoherent it just feels even more like a dream. Apparently more effort was put into the sound design than into actually shooting the damn thing - even if the filmmaking here is anything but typical - but the walls of sounds that runs along on the soundtrack, wow. Only one section towards the end of the movie was so dull that even the sound editor simply skipped that part, leaving it untouched, for which I can't blame him, other than that there isn't a quiet second in the film. And did I mention the flick has a piano score? Yeah, MELLOW PIANO! Mixed with a lot of weird sounds.
As for the editing, well, that's a big part of what makes this such a surreal film. Coherence is almost non-existent, almost as if the director of photography after he was done shooting took the pile of film stock that was to be used, threw it onto the editor's floor and the editor then took one random piece of film and tucked it onto the next random piece of film until it was all one piece. Adding to the whole affair probably was the fact that the TV rip I watched was dark as all hell. Overall I very much was reminded of Spielberg's 'Something Evil' also because of the camera-work. So this would be like a incoherent, surreal version of that film. One more thing, this turns into a zombie movie at the end and initially that's also very cool. The weirdness of this flick knows no boundaries.