Director: Maximus Jenkins
Year: 2025
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Psychological
Plot:
After the release of his latest project, a filmmaker tries to come to terms with the public perception and release of the project in the public eye as well as maintaining the relationships he’s made along the way, only for it to be complicated by an unseen threat following him.
Review:
Overall, this was a fairly solid psychological thriller. The main focus here is on the sense of self, following up on the fears and desires of releasing a work of art to the public at large, creates the most to like here. With the main focus here on the series of nerve-wracking ordeals that come from finishing a project like a film, regardless of its length or duration, and setting it out to the public at large where they can take their own interpretations and judgments from others regarding what the final version is supposed to be like, and what navigating the landscape is like once it’s been released regarding talk-shows or interviews leaves this with a solid enough impression. This underlying psychological mindset throughout here helps to bring about a solid touch, the more this goes on and his outbursts become more erratic and irresponsible that requiring him to lash out at others or express his doubt in what’s happening around him.
For all the good that does, the whole thing becomes undone by the fact that the psychological genre approach makes everything feel far too loosely constructed to have that effect. With so much of the film relying on his manic reinterpretations of events and self-doubt conflicting with his success by sabotaging something good before it happens only to then use that as motivation to fuel his deranged beliefs, this starts to become rather troublesome to stay invested in. The incidents here mean less overall when it doesn’t form that kind of grounding necessary to believe it’s the fault of some nameless entity following him but rather far more obviously points to his own psychosis that takes centerstage over the few meandering and ultimately pointless inserts of some creature supposedly following him. That can be a stretch for some to ultimately call this a genre piece in the end and is what holds it back the most.
Overview: **/5
A generally solid if ultimately bland psychological horror effort, that this one works as well as it does is more of a reliance on the audience’s tolerance for the subject matter than anything else. Those who appreciate this kind of indie effort or who are fans of this kind of style will have the most to like here, while most others should heed extreme caution.
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