The opening titles are good and really set the scene for a high quality horror movie. As soon as the titles are over we are plunged headfirst into terrible acting, laughable dialogue, cheap cgi and cheesy effects. For the first ten minutes we get badly mixed, aggressively pounding EDM music slammed into our ears, utterly destroying any chance of establishing a tone or atmosphere. The movie never recovers from this initial, baffling mistake.
Our lead character is an unrealistic, uninteresting, boring corporate butthead. He's bitten by a mosquito and then lurches from scene to scene spouting aggressive, unrealistic dialogue to other buttheads who I think are meant to be 'hyper-masculine males', but appear to be written by somebody who has neither worked in a corporate office nor met any human beings in real life. His mosquito bite begins to affect him in boring ways. Then it goes for an artsy, poignant payoff which I'm still laughing at.
The cinematography is over-reliant on washing scenes in uniform colour, to the point of silliness, where even a domestic scene in an apartment doesn't look real. 'Stagey' is an understatement.
The opening titles are good. Oh, I said that already.
Our lead character is an unrealistic, uninteresting, boring corporate butthead. He's bitten by a mosquito and then lurches from scene to scene spouting aggressive, unrealistic dialogue to other buttheads who I think are meant to be 'hyper-masculine males', but appear to be written by somebody who has neither worked in a corporate office nor met any human beings in real life. His mosquito bite begins to affect him in boring ways. Then it goes for an artsy, poignant payoff which I'm still laughing at.
The cinematography is over-reliant on washing scenes in uniform colour, to the point of silliness, where even a domestic scene in an apartment doesn't look real. 'Stagey' is an understatement.
The opening titles are good. Oh, I said that already.