This...this was a weird one and kind of fitting with how strange The Corridor was. Like The Pact, it is about a child going to the home of their deceased mother and finding more to the house than meets the eye (including secret rooms). Unlike The Pact, it moves in an entirely more ambiguous direction. This is the first full-length for the writer/director (Rodrigo Gudino). It shows he has a lot on his mind besides just horror.
Aaron Poole (a poor man's Aaron Paul), has the burden of carrying the entire movie himself. He never appears on-screen with a real person throughout the 80 minute runtime. Vanessa Redgrave is the main draw here, providing the titular voiceover that guides the action of the movie. I was really caught up in this movie and the slow reveals. You get a good sense of the strained relationship between Redgrave and Poole as well as some top notch creepiness in the form of Redgrave's stuffed-to-the-rafters house of angelic knick knacks. Statues move, cross-stitches predict the future and the whole place is like a locked room puzzle with clues that lead Poole deeper and deeper into the world his mother inhabited up until her death.
The ending is one of those that might actually negate the entire thing you just watched but, seeing as how the whole narrative was operating on a metaphorical plain rather than a literal one, I didn't really mind. It is thought-provoking, has some interesting things to say about faith versus despair and doesn't wear out its welcome. You could do worse, is what I'm saying.
Previous Spooktoberfest reviews:
The Corridor
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Atrocious and Fright Night
The American Scream
Transylvania 6-5000 and The Pact
The Dunwich Horror
Room 237
Also, if you are looking for horror movie recommendations on Netflix, check out Resolution. It is low budget but nice and creepy.
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