While we are given numerous films to review, some don't always fit with the type of content we normally provide here. However, in the interest of providing thoughts on them nonetheless, here are our thoughts on several of these that were watched over the last month that isn't worth producing a full review for but is still worth some of your time.
Jethica (Pete Ohs)-
A charmingly insufferable drama/thriller about a woman's past reconnection with a childhood friend conflicting with her friends' troublesome stalking by the ghost of a person she wants out of her life and their bonded experience trying to rid themselves of the undead follower. On the surface, this minimalist drama has the perfect mood and atmosphere for this type of quirky story with the theme of obsession and inability to escape from the past as the spectator of their stalker is equal parts literally and figuratively haunting them to the point that they're willing to try anything short of utilizing supernatural means to deal with the issue before them. This is only enhanced with a maddeningly frenetic pace that makes wonderful use of the expansive landscape where everything centers around which offers a fantastic mood-enhancing piece just as well. The main issues here stem from the focus on low-energy conversations and offbeat humor that align itself more with the mumblecore/black comedy crowd than anything remotely genre-related so it's never close to scary or malicious while those that aren't fond of this particular style will also find this a dry, bland bore without much else going on here.
The Latent Image (Alexander McGregor Birrell)-
Overall, this thriller, about a writer who finds the sexual tension between him and a stranger that shows up at a mountainside cabin he's staying in to finish his latest work only to come to believe that he's not who he says he is, comes off incredibly well. The palpable tension of the two throughout here offers quite a lot to like as they play off each other seemingly innocently at first before gradually unveiling a darker and more vicious undercurrent with how they're interactions come off. With fine usage of fantasy and hallucinations that come into play featuring quite a fine mixture of intrigue and sexual tension which plays into the later half nicely when everything gets turned upside down with the arrival of the boyfriend and their underlying issues that are put into play with the earlier scenes featuring a romantic relationship between him and the stranger that runs throughout the first half being a thrilling counterfoil to each other. That does lead to the film becoming quite a bit more twist-laden and slightly more obnoxious as it goes along with the idea being almost designed to trick you more than anything natural as to how it'll play out, especially once it shows its hand and signposts where it wants to go, but overall this is negligible as there's quite a lot to like about this one.
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