Director: Nicholas Michael Jacobs
Year: 2029
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Anthology
Plot:
Arriving in a cemetery, a figure known as the Visitor reveals how the proprietors ended up six feet under.
Review:
Joe Roth-Sent to clean out the basement, a teen trying to clean up the place finds an Ouija board amongst the belongings. Ordered not to touch it, he takes it out anyway and starts playing with it leading to a visit from an otherworldly being he'll wish he didn't. Overall, this is a solid opening segment. The atmosphere works great with the shadowy shots of him cleaning up downstairs and the scenes up in the living room playing with it give off the impending feel of something going to happen. Once it does, there's a creepy vibe to what's about to happen which turns this into a great twist ending. The black-and-white is distracting and sometimes too dark to make out what's going on but that's all that holds this one back.
Sam Hooper-Trying to finish a video project, a frustrated film student going through various ideas for a new horror film keeps stumbling upon his ideas. When he's finally presented with a potentially killer idea, he feels he can't let it go. This was a pretty decent if flawed effort. The initial stages of this one with the aborted film before finding out it was being watched on a laptop are great and the opportunity for several great stalking scenes comes off well. The segment stumbles, though, with the campy meta-ness of him talking to himself and the constant cheats of the closing laptop on intriguing ideas, while the ending goes on quite a bit longer making it obvious the twist in the character's fate from the beginning with the gimmick of the film. Still, it's not that bad overall.
Jennifer Burton-Upset that her boyfriend blew her off on her birthday, a woman begins texting an old high-school friend which leads her to invite him over. When she goes to welcome him, she starts to suspect someone or something might be the real culprit. This here was a decent enough effort. As the early setup here feels all too formulaic involving this one leading towards an obvious conclusion involving them talking suggestively over text, that this one changes things around with advantage wholly unique twist that has an effective and chilling resolution. This leaves for a go off lasting impression overall.
Overview: **.5/5
A generally solid mini-anthology with these shorter stories having plenty to like even with a few minor missteps, this effort proves quite enjoyable for the most part. Give this a shot if these types of anthology efforts or fans of his previous efforts, while those who aren't into either should heed caution.
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