I was happy with the classic look of the intro and then it turned to the low budget cool feel of yesteryear, where the camera focuses a lot on the characters from the shoulder up and expressions are very important for the feel of the characters and of the movie in general. This is maintained throughout.
If you love H. P. Lovecraft, this film feels like it could have come right off his pages. It has the elements of an ill defined "something is definitely wrong here" focus and strange inexplicable and suspicious things start to happen to a group consisting of younger grizzled vets and young buck's "fresh off the boat" who cannot understand it and cannot hope to cope for long.
You can already tell that war has done its work on the older ones and it really shows in their characters so they are RIPE to be tipped right over the edge, and you can feel the growing dread as the impossibility of their situation is exacerbated by the horror of what they find below.
And like Lovecraft would have enjoyed, some lose their grip because their mind can't comprehend their situation. Very H. P. Lovecraft! It could even have been a Twilight zone, from back in the day.
Whoever wrote it obviously could have benefitted from some help in planning the final final scene. It could have ended five or six minutes sooner and been a great ending. I know some will complain about what I almost consider a tacked on scene that didnt really add to the overall story, but I'll tell you what: i liked the style and feel of the movie. That was done on purpose and it was for people who remember the old fadeaways cacophanies and startled closeups etc... of yesteryear.
If you love H. P. Lovecraft, this film feels like it could have come right off his pages. It has the elements of an ill defined "something is definitely wrong here" focus and strange inexplicable and suspicious things start to happen to a group consisting of younger grizzled vets and young buck's "fresh off the boat" who cannot understand it and cannot hope to cope for long.
You can already tell that war has done its work on the older ones and it really shows in their characters so they are RIPE to be tipped right over the edge, and you can feel the growing dread as the impossibility of their situation is exacerbated by the horror of what they find below.
And like Lovecraft would have enjoyed, some lose their grip because their mind can't comprehend their situation. Very H. P. Lovecraft! It could even have been a Twilight zone, from back in the day.
Whoever wrote it obviously could have benefitted from some help in planning the final final scene. It could have ended five or six minutes sooner and been a great ending. I know some will complain about what I almost consider a tacked on scene that didnt really add to the overall story, but I'll tell you what: i liked the style and feel of the movie. That was done on purpose and it was for people who remember the old fadeaways cacophanies and startled closeups etc... of yesteryear.