Just 3 more days and then we are done. How fast time flies again.
Today was a good day, despite Lake Mungo which did not appeal to me at all (sorry for that). The best movie I saw was Stingray Sam, though Martyrs comes close behind.
I saw Coen today again for a short time. I met him yesterday during Grace. Talkable guy from Eindhoven (I believe), who studies at the movie and art academy (if I remember it correct ;-)) and does teaching at a MBO as well. Quite amazing that he comes all the way to Amsterdam again, though he has to leave after the 4th movie, to be in time back with public transport. How do I know him? Actually I don't, but people seem to know me. It happens sometimes :-). Anyway, we had some small, but good chats about movies. He was quite impressed with Lake Mungo, so I guess we do not agree on all types of movies hehe. He'll be in on Friday again.
No redbull clones for me today, though I drank quite some coffee again. I did not drink one before Stingray Sam and I feld it. Though the movie was excellent, my eyes were sometimes getting sleepy. I guess i'm getting more immume for coffee and I need more to feel the effect (Daddy, am I addicted now?).
My eyes seem to be getting better too. Yesterday I went to bed quite early, since my eyes were getting sore again. It was even worse in the weekend. Right now I still feel ok, so I guess my eyes are getting better again (I think I had/have a small infection).
in memoriam
Martin Bril (49)
(Dutch writer)
Martin Bril (49)
(Dutch writer)
They seem to go fast these days. A lot of them. Too many.
Yup, some pretty crappy films, but very impressed by "Martyrs". The solitary 15-min bikeride home was quite valuable to collect my thoughts on that one. (No I haven't rewritten "The Clone Returns Home" yet, though I did some writing on it today. Might have to watch it again before I do share it.)
Started with some cortados. Did some writing. Content with that, that's good. Has been a while. Quite a while. From previous years I know the creativity bug can bite from the very start of the AFFF, but this year it took a while.
Radiohead makes for a wonderful score during nights like these.
Yup, some pretty crappy films, but very impressed by "Martyrs". The solitary 15-min bikeride home was quite valuable to collect my thoughts on that one. (No I haven't rewritten "The Clone Returns Home" yet, though I did some writing on it today. Might have to watch it again before I do share it.)
Started with some cortados. Did some writing. Content with that, that's good. Has been a while. Quite a while. From previous years I know the creativity bug can bite from the very start of the AFFF, but this year it took a while.
Radiohead makes for a wonderful score during nights like these.
Fighting demons to discover God
Links: AFFF / imdb
It's usually a good indication when I leave the cinema silently and not wanting to talk about the film that I have just seen with other people who have seen the same film. It is almost like me and the film need some time for ourselves, to reflect, question, argue and fight over the merits and flaws.
Martyrs is many things. For starters, it consists of two distinct parts. The first part is a scary revenge horror film where fighting your inner demons is taken literally. There is a lot of drive and impulse in this part, with unapologetic violence. The second part is a sick study into the process of creating a martyr (in more than one sense) and lessons to be learned.
The topic seems to be surfacing often, but the question arises here as well: is this torture porn and nothing more, or is that just the outer shell of a more intricate story being told? I think the way the film is structured and given the climax (which I won't give away here) this is not yet another mindless violent film. In a way Martyrs throws us back to a time before the Stone Age, it questions how our behaviour is susceptible to the interaction with our environment, and how it can create a monster or a god.
I still feel some reservations preventing me to call this a masterpiece. The twist in the final act gives everything that happened before a broader context and reason which is excellent. But at the same time it feels a bit like the writer/director cheated by trying to link Big Ideas (the meaning of life etc) to a nihilistic concept like Evil.
Rather than exploring the notion that some people derive a sickening satisfaction from being in complete control of someone else - evil as a noumenon, a thing-in-itself (see also Meta-ethics) - he almost suggests to understand altruistic motives (and he judges them as well).
But perhaps I shouldn't confuse my own world view and that of others with the game of chess the director has offered in the form of this film. I can analyze the moves, express my opinion on the path that was followed, offer alternatives and marvel or rebuke its outcome. The fact alone that the film still leaves me wondering and rethinking what I have seen on the screen makes this film stand out.
Rating: 9
Links: AFFF / imdb
It's usually a good indication when I leave the cinema silently and not wanting to talk about the film that I have just seen with other people who have seen the same film. It is almost like me and the film need some time for ourselves, to reflect, question, argue and fight over the merits and flaws.
Martyrs is many things. For starters, it consists of two distinct parts. The first part is a scary revenge horror film where fighting your inner demons is taken literally. There is a lot of drive and impulse in this part, with unapologetic violence. The second part is a sick study into the process of creating a martyr (in more than one sense) and lessons to be learned.
The topic seems to be surfacing often, but the question arises here as well: is this torture porn and nothing more, or is that just the outer shell of a more intricate story being told? I think the way the film is structured and given the climax (which I won't give away here) this is not yet another mindless violent film. In a way Martyrs throws us back to a time before the Stone Age, it questions how our behaviour is susceptible to the interaction with our environment, and how it can create a monster or a god.
I still feel some reservations preventing me to call this a masterpiece. The twist in the final act gives everything that happened before a broader context and reason which is excellent. But at the same time it feels a bit like the writer/director cheated by trying to link Big Ideas (the meaning of life etc) to a nihilistic concept like Evil.
Rather than exploring the notion that some people derive a sickening satisfaction from being in complete control of someone else - evil as a noumenon, a thing-in-itself (see also Meta-ethics) - he almost suggests to understand altruistic motives (and he judges them as well).
But perhaps I shouldn't confuse my own world view and that of others with the game of chess the director has offered in the form of this film. I can analyze the moves, express my opinion on the path that was followed, offer alternatives and marvel or rebuke its outcome. The fact alone that the film still leaves me wondering and rethinking what I have seen on the screen makes this film stand out.
Rating: 9
description: Quite bad for a romantic comedy ;-) -> girls, torture, 15 years later, revenge, family killed, torture basement, group of torturers (martyrs) over decades, ghosts, skin, afterlife.
(Geoffrey): (rating 8)
How do you review a movie like this? It is not a movie for the weak stomache people. How can you give a movie like this a high rating? Some sick stuff happens in the movie and for what? That's a little bit the idea. For a horror/torture movie, the story is quite strong. It is not a horror movie like "look what we can do with bodies/women". Women are mostly the victims as far as I can judge horror movies and men far less. Why actually? I guess it is not very convincing is a man is tortured. Women can look/act more dramatically. They say women can endure more pain, is that really the case? I don't know, but hardly male torturing in this movie.
Anyway, getting back to this movie, I don't go into much details, since I don't need to. Like my other descriptions, when reading the words, you probably get the idea what the movie is all about.
The torturing in the movie is well set in motion. You see some bad stuff, but it is not overdone with blood and gore, unless needed. Don't get me wrong, there is a lot of blood and gore but it was done at the right moment, at the right place. As for the story, there is also a good reason why it all happens. Of course it is no excuse, but the reason makes the story very good and therefore I give it an 8. I wouldn't mind never seeing this movie again though.
(Geoffrey): (rating 8)
How do you review a movie like this? It is not a movie for the weak stomache people. How can you give a movie like this a high rating? Some sick stuff happens in the movie and for what? That's a little bit the idea. For a horror/torture movie, the story is quite strong. It is not a horror movie like "look what we can do with bodies/women". Women are mostly the victims as far as I can judge horror movies and men far less. Why actually? I guess it is not very convincing is a man is tortured. Women can look/act more dramatically. They say women can endure more pain, is that really the case? I don't know, but hardly male torturing in this movie.
Anyway, getting back to this movie, I don't go into much details, since I don't need to. Like my other descriptions, when reading the words, you probably get the idea what the movie is all about.
The torturing in the movie is well set in motion. You see some bad stuff, but it is not overdone with blood and gore, unless needed. Don't get me wrong, there is a lot of blood and gore but it was done at the right moment, at the right place. As for the story, there is also a good reason why it all happens. Of course it is no excuse, but the reason makes the story very good and therefore I give it an 8. I wouldn't mind never seeing this movie again though.
An original vampire story. A baby is born dead, but suddenly he lives. The mother is happy of course, but the baby isn't eating what babies suppose to eat so the mother has to find ways to feed her son.
The effects where nice, subtle. Maybe they should have explained why the baby got his infection. Also the husband of the women is gone after the birth of the baby. Wonder where he went. The movie ends in some sort of camper. Could the Near Dark troupe have begun here ? :)
Rating : 8
The effects where nice, subtle. Maybe they should have explained why the baby got his infection. Also the husband of the women is gone after the birth of the baby. Wonder where he went. The movie ends in some sort of camper. Could the Near Dark troupe have begun here ? :)
Rating : 8
Man's fear and search for existential questions knows no limit
Links: AFFF / imdb
(here be spoilers)
I am not sure whether the phrase "existential horror" has been coined before. This is it. What starts as a raw "torture victim hunts her agressors" story slowly changes into a portrayal of man's fear of death; a group of people intentionally try create martyrs by chaining them in dark cellars and submitting them to the most gruesome of pain and torture. The state of a martyr is such that she doesn't fear anything in this world. Her body is beyond pain, her very being beyond this world. There is no limit to the horror mankind is capable of inflicting onto his fellow man to find answers to existential questions of what lies beyond this life. The fact that these are without exception answered sooner or later for everybody adds an even more gruesome aspect; Impatience can be the sole reason for inflicting these most horrendous kinds of pain. Impatience, and fear.
The film keeps an impressively fast pace throughout and though many horrible scenes are showed in gory detail they never indulgenced. I am deeply impressed and was merely doubting between an 8 and 9 because the latter has an air of "recommend it to everybody!". Which is certainly not the case here. I am not even sure I'd like to watch it myself again any time soon.
Rating: 9
Links: AFFF / imdb
(here be spoilers)
I am not sure whether the phrase "existential horror" has been coined before. This is it. What starts as a raw "torture victim hunts her agressors" story slowly changes into a portrayal of man's fear of death; a group of people intentionally try create martyrs by chaining them in dark cellars and submitting them to the most gruesome of pain and torture. The state of a martyr is such that she doesn't fear anything in this world. Her body is beyond pain, her very being beyond this world. There is no limit to the horror mankind is capable of inflicting onto his fellow man to find answers to existential questions of what lies beyond this life. The fact that these are without exception answered sooner or later for everybody adds an even more gruesome aspect; Impatience can be the sole reason for inflicting these most horrendous kinds of pain. Impatience, and fear.
The film keeps an impressively fast pace throughout and though many horrible scenes are showed in gory detail they never indulgenced. I am deeply impressed and was merely doubting between an 8 and 9 because the latter has an air of "recommend it to everybody!". Which is certainly not the case here. I am not even sure I'd like to watch it myself again any time soon.
Rating: 9
Again a ghost story, set in Spain. I don't know what to write about it. The movie begins interesting, but halfway through a priest explains all, so the last part is just watching the things the priest said.
Rating : 6
Rating : 6
Added to the standard fantastic film inventory: traumatized Spanish woman in a haunted mansion
Links: AFFF / imdb
What's up with these Spanish films with a religious setting, moody anamorphic dark scenes in a haunted convent / nursery, dead children and ultra slow tracking shots? The one distinctive element in The Beckoning is the usage of the authentic historic newsreels (sort of like the Dutch "Polygoon journaal"), for the rest it delivers the obvious series of events and conclusion.
Rating: 6
Links: AFFF / imdb
What's up with these Spanish films with a religious setting, moody anamorphic dark scenes in a haunted convent / nursery, dead children and ultra slow tracking shots? The one distinctive element in The Beckoning is the usage of the authentic historic newsreels (sort of like the Dutch "Polygoon journaal"), for the rest it delivers the obvious series of events and conclusion.
Rating: 6
Mum goes crazy in old landhouse because daughter died and... oh please, make it STOP
Links: AFFF / imdb
Run of the mill. Very, very run of the mill. But the mill is old. You've seen a thousand mills like this, and every single one of them was in better shape. Grinded the corn better. Threw a more beautiful silhouette against the darkening summersky.
Again: ghosts shown Too Soon, people! And then they appear again and again and again and again... now this might work in a lyric or two but it becomes sooooo tiiiireeessooommmeeeee. Yes, cue squeaking floor. Sigh. How -dare- they say it holds up to "The Orphanage"
Rating: 5
Links: AFFF / imdb
Run of the mill. Very, very run of the mill. But the mill is old. You've seen a thousand mills like this, and every single one of them was in better shape. Grinded the corn better. Threw a more beautiful silhouette against the darkening summersky.
Again: ghosts shown Too Soon, people! And then they appear again and again and again and again... now this might work in a lyric or two but it becomes sooooo tiiiireeessooommmeeeee. Yes, cue squeaking floor. Sigh. How -dare- they say it holds up to "The Orphanage"
Rating: 5
description: Ghosts, family with 1-2 children, 3 young girls, martyr, house haunted, whore to be a saint, bishop, secrets, no-do documentaires, woman sleeping 60 years, 3 forms of miracle busting.
(Geoffrey): (rating 6)
Well, this is another ghost movie....again in a f_cked up house with a f_cked up history. Seeing so many of these types of movies in a short notice, they become a drag. Here we have a big house, used for praying in the past. Some miracles happened in this house, but not with a good ending, thanks to the bisshop. The miracles are put on film and people involved were killed, except one woman who is in a coma/sleep for 50-60 years. Now a family with a 4 month old baby are going to live in that house. Mother sees ghosts, father thinks mother is going nuts (how original).
The old woman who slept for such a long time wakes all of a sudden and can stand immediately. No problems with muscles not used for 50-60 years, no issues with her brain. Not really convincing. But ok, she plays her part as she and her husband made documentaires, with a special camera who actually could record miracles (ghostly beings etc) at that time. Now her husband is gone and it is the bisshops fold. There is some kind of priest (martyr) getting involved, showing the dark secrets the house holds with the no-do documentaires made so long ago.
Actually I wanted to give this movie a lower score, since I had it with ghost haunted house movies, but I gave it a 6 anyway, since the acting was not that bad and I like movies with some criticism to people in charge of religion. Cults/dark religion or religion not pictures as pure as they want to gives it a plus. Hopefully no American remake will be made of this movie.
(Geoffrey): (rating 6)
Well, this is another ghost movie....again in a f_cked up house with a f_cked up history. Seeing so many of these types of movies in a short notice, they become a drag. Here we have a big house, used for praying in the past. Some miracles happened in this house, but not with a good ending, thanks to the bisshop. The miracles are put on film and people involved were killed, except one woman who is in a coma/sleep for 50-60 years. Now a family with a 4 month old baby are going to live in that house. Mother sees ghosts, father thinks mother is going nuts (how original).
The old woman who slept for such a long time wakes all of a sudden and can stand immediately. No problems with muscles not used for 50-60 years, no issues with her brain. Not really convincing. But ok, she plays her part as she and her husband made documentaires, with a special camera who actually could record miracles (ghostly beings etc) at that time. Now her husband is gone and it is the bisshops fold. There is some kind of priest (martyr) getting involved, showing the dark secrets the house holds with the no-do documentaires made so long ago.
Actually I wanted to give this movie a lower score, since I had it with ghost haunted house movies, but I gave it a 6 anyway, since the acting was not that bad and I like movies with some criticism to people in charge of religion. Cults/dark religion or religion not pictures as pure as they want to gives it a plus. Hopefully no American remake will be made of this movie.
description: Space cowboy, lounge singer, partner, paying off to society, mission, girl, episodes, comedy, spaceship, planets, male pregnancy, gay, small robot as a body host
(Geoffrey): (rating 9)
This movie blew my head off of originality and fun. There are quite some gay-friendly movies during this festival and I guess this is one of them. Though you don't see man-man, the story makes it quite clear. Also, that's not the point of the movie.
The movie is about Stingray Sam, a space cowboy who is a lounge singer. A former (jail) partner visits him who wants him to help him being a free man by doing a mission, which involves rescueing a young girl. The movie is in black-white and the main characters are funny as hell. The movie is splitted up in short series episodes, which makes it very original. The visuals in the movie look quite simple, but the idea is absolutely briljant, same for the music/singing in the movie. The storie/lyrics of each song makes you laugh.
To me the movie is such a out-of-the-box concept and I enjoyed every second of it. Therefor I give it a 9
(Geoffrey): (rating 9)
This movie blew my head off of originality and fun. There are quite some gay-friendly movies during this festival and I guess this is one of them. Though you don't see man-man, the story makes it quite clear. Also, that's not the point of the movie.
The movie is about Stingray Sam, a space cowboy who is a lounge singer. A former (jail) partner visits him who wants him to help him being a free man by doing a mission, which involves rescueing a young girl. The movie is in black-white and the main characters are funny as hell. The movie is splitted up in short series episodes, which makes it very original. The visuals in the movie look quite simple, but the idea is absolutely briljant, same for the music/singing in the movie. The storie/lyrics of each song makes you laugh.
To me the movie is such a out-of-the-box concept and I enjoyed every second of it. Therefor I give it a 9
drugs kill, kids. As do 14-inch cocks
Links: AFFF / imdb
Well I hate to typecaste (no you don't moron, you love it) but my "aaah... Troma!" thought during the Q&A did "explain" this film to me.
Not that there is actually much to explain. There's curious lighting, curious angles. Curious sudden cutoffs of music. You think arty, think again.
Rating: 6
(hell yes I realise I don't even describe the story or film itself. Haven't you realised it yet?? Every time there are 3 other beautiful reviews to give you insight in film, story, style and mood)
Links: AFFF / imdb
Well I hate to typecaste (no you don't moron, you love it) but my "aaah... Troma!" thought during the Q&A did "explain" this film to me.
Not that there is actually much to explain. There's curious lighting, curious angles. Curious sudden cutoffs of music. You think arty, think again.
Rating: 6
(hell yes I realise I don't even describe the story or film itself. Haven't you realised it yet?? Every time there are 3 other beautiful reviews to give you insight in film, story, style and mood)
*knock knock* Who's there? - It's Joost, I'd like to have 80 minutes of my life back!
Links: AFFF / imdb
A direct-to-DVD release would be a compliment to this film. The imagine festival organization praised the makers for upping their game when it comes to the visual look compared to earlier work. Lighting wise I could perhaps see their point, but the camera work was shoddy, screen direction was all over the place and frame sizes were not matching where it should have.
Okay, this film was shot on a very low budget in only 11 days, and even though I tend like B-movies, this one just didn't cut it for me. I guess a 15 inch monstercock and doped up characters alone aren't entertaining enough after all...
Rating: 2
Links: AFFF / imdb
A direct-to-DVD release would be a compliment to this film. The imagine festival organization praised the makers for upping their game when it comes to the visual look compared to earlier work. Lighting wise I could perhaps see their point, but the camera work was shoddy, screen direction was all over the place and frame sizes were not matching where it should have.
Okay, this film was shot on a very low budget in only 11 days, and even though I tend like B-movies, this one just didn't cut it for me. I guess a 15 inch monstercock and doped up characters alone aren't entertaining enough after all...
Rating: 2
description: 3 women teenagers (British), 4 male teenagers, sunny place, a boat, drugs, sex, accidental murder, murder, panic, escaping
(Geoffrey): (rating 5,5)
What do you get when you have 3 young British women and 4 British male on a boat? You shouldn't be suprised that sex will come next, specially when drugs and licquor are involved. If one of the boys donkey punch one of the girls, things make a drastic turn.
Nice popcorn movie, but not really special. Perhaps I would have been more impressed if I was 20 years younger. There is a real life soap about young British teenagers in a house which I saw on t.v. The movie is quite similar, but then without the killing....at least non-verbally.
(Geoffrey): (rating 5,5)
What do you get when you have 3 young British women and 4 British male on a boat? You shouldn't be suprised that sex will come next, specially when drugs and licquor are involved. If one of the boys donkey punch one of the girls, things make a drastic turn.
Nice popcorn movie, but not really special. Perhaps I would have been more impressed if I was 20 years younger. There is a real life soap about young British teenagers in a house which I saw on t.v. The movie is quite similar, but then without the killing....at least non-verbally.
Natalie Holloway. On a nicer boat.
Links: AFFF / imdb
memorable quote: "I'm the most dependable guy you know, I'm a fucking Volvo, mate"
13-a-dozen
teenage-sex-gone-wrong
oh-dear-better-to-hide-the-body
fuck-I-fucked-you-but-now-I-don't-trust-you-anymore
oh-well-then-I-better-kill-you-with-a-lifeboat-engine
film
(yes, I'm the best Haiku writer you've got among your Facebook pals, pal)
Rating: 5
Links: AFFF / imdb
memorable quote: "I'm the most dependable guy you know, I'm a fucking Volvo, mate"
13-a-dozen
teenage-sex-gone-wrong
oh-dear-better-to-hide-the-body
fuck-I-fucked-you-but-now-I-don't-trust-you-anymore
oh-well-then-I-better-kill-you-with-a-lifeboat-engine
film
(yes, I'm the best Haiku writer you've got among your Facebook pals, pal)
Rating: 5
A remake of a movie with the same name but by Wes Craven. Gruesome rape revenge movie.
A girl is raped and shot by a group of criminals. After their deeds they go to a lake house where the parent's of the girl live. The criminals don't know that the parents live there and the parents don't know what the criminals did. After a while the parents do get to know who their guests are because the girl didn't die when she was shot, she crawls to the lake house and all hell breaks loose.
Good special effects (gore).
Rating : 8
A girl is raped and shot by a group of criminals. After their deeds they go to a lake house where the parent's of the girl live. The criminals don't know that the parents live there and the parents don't know what the criminals did. After a while the parents do get to know who their guests are because the girl didn't die when she was shot, she crawls to the lake house and all hell breaks loose.
Good special effects (gore).
Rating : 8
Sex, drugs, punch & pain
Links: AFFF / imdb
This film reminds me of the track/video E-talking by Soulwax - a great promo for doing drugs... But unlike Soulwax, this film has an important Moral to the Story: sex - great, drugs - fine, punching someone just before climaxing during sex - not recommended, trying to cover up an accidental death - definitely not recommended. Write down that lesson, so that you may safely skip this mediocre film.
Rating: 4
Links: AFFF / imdb
This film reminds me of the track/video E-talking by Soulwax - a great promo for doing drugs... But unlike Soulwax, this film has an important Moral to the Story: sex - great, drugs - fine, punching someone just before climaxing during sex - not recommended, trying to cover up an accidental death - definitely not recommended. Write down that lesson, so that you may safely skip this mediocre film.
Rating: 4
description: girl drowned, family telling the story, other people involved, ghosts, fake, death in future
(Geoffrey): (rating 3)
This is a docu movie about a girl who drowned and the family, friends, relatives telling more about the girl, who she really was and what happened. The idea is ok, but I found the acting not so good and the story got from worse to worse. Perhaps if they shortened it in a 45 minute docu-movie it would have been better. There are too many dumb (fake ghost pictures), boring (family acting not convincing at all) and annoying parts (ooh goodie, there is another hidden person in the pictures, is there something true after all? who knows -> WHO FUCKING CARES!!!) in the docu that made it very hard for me to watch.
(Geoffrey): (rating 3)
This is a docu movie about a girl who drowned and the family, friends, relatives telling more about the girl, who she really was and what happened. The idea is ok, but I found the acting not so good and the story got from worse to worse. Perhaps if they shortened it in a 45 minute docu-movie it would have been better. There are too many dumb (fake ghost pictures), boring (family acting not convincing at all) and annoying parts (ooh goodie, there is another hidden person in the pictures, is there something true after all? who knows -> WHO FUCKING CARES!!!) in the docu that made it very hard for me to watch.
- I see dead pixels.
- No you don't.
- Yes I do.
Links: AFFF / imdb
The first 45 minutes of this film are a wonderful fake documentary about a family trying to cope with a drowned teenage daughter (okay, rather her absence...), only to see her appear in photos and films after her death. It turns out the son was the culprit, faking evidence of her "ghost". So far so good. What impressed me was the very believable documentary-mood of everything. The interviews, the dialogues, monologues and editing all made sense.
Rating So Far: 7
Then, alas, the writers / director derail by suggesting that besides the fake evidence she actually _does_ appear. Shock shock, horror horror. Not. It's a shame that these last 20 minutes turn the film into a farce. We had some discussions among ourselves about what this film could've been, but I myself find this tricky since it is too easy to project your own "perfect" type of film unto it. There is definitely something nice in there, if only they knew where and when to stop.
Final Rating: 5
- No you don't.
- Yes I do.
Links: AFFF / imdb
The first 45 minutes of this film are a wonderful fake documentary about a family trying to cope with a drowned teenage daughter (okay, rather her absence...), only to see her appear in photos and films after her death. It turns out the son was the culprit, faking evidence of her "ghost". So far so good. What impressed me was the very believable documentary-mood of everything. The interviews, the dialogues, monologues and editing all made sense.
Rating So Far: 7
Then, alas, the writers / director derail by suggesting that besides the fake evidence she actually _does_ appear. Shock shock, horror horror. Not. It's a shame that these last 20 minutes turn the film into a farce. We had some discussions among ourselves about what this film could've been, but I myself find this tricky since it is too easy to project your own "perfect" type of film unto it. There is definitely something nice in there, if only they knew where and when to stop.
Final Rating: 5
Mockumentary about a ghost of a drowned girl who shows up on video's and photo's made by family members. The idea of the movie is original and well done until the first half of the movie. After that it looses it's believability (in the setting of the movie). The brother of the girl admits that he faked the ghost pictures, he even tells how its done. After that they have new photo's of the ghost girl and now they are really "real" according to the brother. sure.
Rating : 7
Rating : 7