The film is also ordered in what I think is the exact right order. The
first segment by David Bruckner sets the tone for just how crazy things
might get, and the final segment by Radio Silence feels like the brakes
are off and you're flying off the mountain into the void. It's crazy,
and the audience tonight was screaming, jumping, viscerally reacting.
This is the sort of film that's going to creep into the permanent
nightmare vocabulary of the audience, and I think the cheap, shitty VHS
look of everything is a big part of why. We have learned over the past
20 years that if you're watching something on film, it's not real. But
if you're watching something on video, especially low-grade unpolished
video, that's "real." And the filmmakers play off of that idea with
such glee that I almost feel like I got mugged by an entire gang. It is
a film designed to shake you with abandon.
And there is no doubt… I am shaken. Well-played.
Distributors, start your engines. Someone's getting rich.
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