Director: Tatu Heikkinen, Veleda Thorsson-Heikkinen
Year: 2026
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Supernatural
Plot:
Desperate to understand his loss, a man grieving the death of his wife is locked inside a desolate room where he undergoes a series of nightmarish visions and hallucinations that are focused on helping him explore the darkness within his mind.
Review:
Overall, this was a decent enough experience when approached in the right mindset. The overarching presentation involves a series of unconventional and avant-garde approaches that introduce the concept of his nightmares as a form of hallucinatory experience. With the simple setup establishing the root cause of everything happening from the start as the nightmarish outcome of his isolation and grief, there’s a strong starting point for the constant barrage of distorted, deformed images and creatures that are thrown on-screen, involving a variety of creation methods, bringing them to life. Not just using obscure techniques, but also featuring some really bizarre elements that can create such a series of unique, creative visuals that are married nicely with the bombastic score to help create the impression of him being tormented by the grotesque figures.
With this establishing the film as a great piece of experimental genre fare, but when it comes to the more standard elements, they tend to be lacking. Focusing so heavily on the slow-burning barrage of obscure imagery, unconventional camera tricks, and admonishing any semblance of a coherent narrative, there’s not much that can be done to make sense of the film in some settings. It presents itself well as a series of creative experiences, but that’s about it, and it takes precedence over any kind of narrative throughline that offers very little of a chance to discuss what’s going on with him. This type of approach is fine for what it is, but everything here that manages to offer up a conventional storyline is missing that immersive factor.
Overview: **.5/5
A visually expressive if somewhat lacking avant-garde genre effort, this one comes together well enough to give everything a strong artistic touch but misses out on the necessary parts that will allow for a more immersive experience. Give it a shot if these factors are intriguing or if you enjoy this unconventional side of the genre, while most others out there should heed extreme caution.
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