Film Festival Reviews. Part 5.
Phobia 2
This is a collection of five short horror movies, each one by a different director. They collaborated to try to keep a common feel in the movie, but each movie really could just be seen on its own. It feels a lot like the Twilight Zone movie in that sense. I’ll review each short individually:
Novice:
A young boy is sent to a monastery after having done Something Bad. He steals food intended as an offering to the “hungry ghosts”, and then gets haunted big time. And that ghost is SCARY!
Score: 4/5
Ward:
After a motorcycle crash, a young man spends some time in the hospital. He shares a room with a brain dead old man covered in strange tattoos. Except he seems awfully mobile for someone dead.. And who are these strange people visiting him?
Score: 3/5
Backpackers:
A Japanese couple gets picked up by a truck driver. I won’t spoil the rest.
Score: 4/5
Salvage:
Lots of confusion about what’s real or not when a child goes missing in his mothers used car lot. See my review of Hierro.
Score: 1/5
In The End:
This one is more comedy then horror, as we follow a group of young film makers shooting the final scenes of a horror movie. Many horror movie clichés get mocked, and the twist ending is both funny, self-aware and satisfying.
Score: 3/5
Best part: Backpackers! Yay!
Worst part: Salvage! Boo!
Overall score: 4/5
