Director: Don Capria
Year: 2024
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Slasher
Plot:
Desperate to regain their image, a young rock band looking to overcome a personal tragedy in their history decides to shoot a controversial music video to help raise awareness for their comeback, but the longer they stay there the more his unhinged tactics make them question his true motives.
Review:
This was a decent enough genre effort. Among the better features here is the strong and overall enjoyable setup that allows for this one to stay on a solid enough note. The initial history of the band’s backstory involving the personal tragedy, the different idiosyncrasies about how they perform and write music, and the struggle with trying to get the band back on track after a series of setbacks offers a fine enough motivation for taking the offer to shoot the video. This gets them out to the house which is a moody, atmospheric piece that is the perfect type of setting for something like this to happen based on these initial early beats all set out by the strong starting point. Even once they’re there, the atmosphere and strangeness of what’s going on make for some intriguing ideas as for how things play out here with the way the shoot goes on.
However, once the starting point has been established, almost nothing of any interest happens for long stretches of the film. Featuring no shortage of scenes inovlving the group going through the motions of deciding what they’re doing, how they’re interacting when they arrive at the house, or the series of personal inflections coming to pass while they prepare for the shoot to the point that it’s just bland and dull waiting for things to happen. When it does start happening, the idea of what’s going on with taking out the band one by one under the pretense of shooting the scenes for the video but turning into gruesome torture sequences that showcase more stupidity than anything in letting everything get to the point it odes before they catch onto the plan since it’s so obvious there’s no real surprise at all. It does undermine this just enough to hold this down overall.
Overview: **.5/5
A generally flawed if somewhat watchable genre effort, this one comes off rather nicely at times but also has some generally problematic factors that bring this down quite a bit. Those that appreciate this kind of style or are intrigued by it will have the most to like here while most others out there turned off by these factors should heed caution with it.
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