Length: 01:10
Logline: A man doesn't like the look of a house, but goes inside it any ways.
As far as horror's go, just adding an eerie violin-type soundtrack to a bit of video doesn't necessarily make it scary. Neither does shooting it in black and white, having a character in period costume or intermittent quick cuts of screeching stone masonry. What's missing from this short is the build up of tension, dread and expectation. A common problem when the horror genre when attempted in a short length film. This effort could possibly work really well as part of a larger film but standing alone, it loses the effect it's trying to create.
Alex Kinsey plays the summoned gent. This is a no dialogue shoot so he really is just walking up some steps, running over a bridge and going into a house. Kinsey doesn't make a mess of this limited role and does his best.
I saw some good camera work in there, the tracking shots and handheld movement shots are all done very well. Similarly, composition and editing work very smoothly together. The back and white is pretty unnecessary though I suspect that this in colour wouldn't have made it any more scarier either. The soundtrack is probably its own worst enemy as it sounds like a cheaply made bog-standard horror film rip-off. Pressing all the lower keys on a keyboard in other words.
This could possibly have been salvaged if the film actually ended with a good scare or with some semblance of something really bad about to happen. Instead, all we get is a door closing. No blood curdling scream, no bludgeoning over the back of the head, nothing. Proving that it's better not to even have a set up if you're not going to pay it off.
Best Bit: The location.
Worst Bit: The lack of horror. And the horror soundtrack.
Final thought: I wonder who lives in a house that that?
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