They Look Like People
Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2016 8:49 pm
Synopsis:
A dude starts seeing possessed people and is convinced they're staging an upcoming apocalyptic battle against humanity. He begins preparing for the inevitable, guided by a mysterious person that keeps calling his phone and warning him of impending doom.
Review:
I'd almost call this film a throwback to the style of Hitchcock. One could also call it a realist German Expressionist film that eschews the traditional psychotic set design of the style (also a hallmark of John Carpenter's Halloween). One dude, who I'll call Drumpf, Jr., is an intrinsically a scared pussy that habitually listens to his ex's voice on tape like they're Amway motivational speeches. He resembles Adam Devine (from Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates), acts like a general bombastic douchebag and overgrown fratboy who's hated by his coworkers, probably because they found out he was trying to date/bang their collective boss, and he'll take any opportunity to prove he's a manly man. His old friend, I'll call him Hipster Hobo, has recently left his fiancee and is clearly homeless at the moment, so he randomly shows up on Drumpf, Jr.'s doorstep and takes up residence on his couch. As a tribute to Ashy Slashy, he goes to the local hardware store to stock up on hammers, axes, nailguns, chainsaws, and other blue-collar instruments of destruction because he thinks everyone around him is systematically being possessed by malevolent supernatural entities.
Be warned, this is not a standard horror movie nor is the budget anything to shout about. Aside from a few underplayed CG scenes, everything in here had to have been done live and on the cheap. It's an extremely slow-burning psychological/suspense flick that relies heavily on the character development of DJ and HH.
Verdict:
It's ... uh, different.
A dude starts seeing possessed people and is convinced they're staging an upcoming apocalyptic battle against humanity. He begins preparing for the inevitable, guided by a mysterious person that keeps calling his phone and warning him of impending doom.
Review:
I'd almost call this film a throwback to the style of Hitchcock. One could also call it a realist German Expressionist film that eschews the traditional psychotic set design of the style (also a hallmark of John Carpenter's Halloween). One dude, who I'll call Drumpf, Jr., is an intrinsically a scared pussy that habitually listens to his ex's voice on tape like they're Amway motivational speeches. He resembles Adam Devine (from Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates), acts like a general bombastic douchebag and overgrown fratboy who's hated by his coworkers, probably because they found out he was trying to date/bang their collective boss, and he'll take any opportunity to prove he's a manly man. His old friend, I'll call him Hipster Hobo, has recently left his fiancee and is clearly homeless at the moment, so he randomly shows up on Drumpf, Jr.'s doorstep and takes up residence on his couch. As a tribute to Ashy Slashy, he goes to the local hardware store to stock up on hammers, axes, nailguns, chainsaws, and other blue-collar instruments of destruction because he thinks everyone around him is systematically being possessed by malevolent supernatural entities.
Be warned, this is not a standard horror movie nor is the budget anything to shout about. Aside from a few underplayed CG scenes, everything in here had to have been done live and on the cheap. It's an extremely slow-burning psychological/suspense flick that relies heavily on the character development of DJ and HH.
Verdict:
It's ... uh, different.