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blackbloodunderthemoonlight
7/10  4 years ago
Look, to anyone who is reaminding you that during quarantine, or the many quarantines that were necessary to stop the spread of the plauge in 1592, 1603 (which was particularly lethal) and then again in 1606, all in London where he worked, Shakespeare wrote King Lear, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra (all around the same year, 1606) let me tell you this: they clearly don't seem to understand the crushing anxiety of living in today's world. Some of us won't produce the next King Lear under quarantine. Some of us will just get drunk and watch three movies a day and that's fine. This for sure isn't King Lear. But it is still a refreshing and surprisingly scary and entertaining horror for this particular time we are all living in. Rob Savage, the director, and anyone that worked on this movie, that unfolds entirely on Zoom, seemed to have had a lot of fun working on it. The tension is good, so are the jump scares, and it's enough to distract someone from the real terror unfolding outside. This horror desktop movie owes I think a lot to Paranormal Activity (the first one at leat). It's lean, effective, not to heavy on the mythology of the story, a fun 56 minutes that go by seamlessly. While with other movies told through a desktop maybe I find myself asking "ok, cool but why?" this instead feels very appropriate, especially with some laugh out loud moments at the absurdity of Zoom glitches or the 40 minutes limit of the free account. For me it's a 7.0/10. It might not linger very long after you've watched it, but it's a smart movie built utilizing the anguish we are all feeling right now in quarantine.
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