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Before I Wake (2016)
This is not a horror movie
It's a great movie about how a child processes something horrible, unfair and cruel. This movie is unique, and it makes you think. Don't expect a cheap scare and watch till the end. Deep.
Don't Breathe (2016)
It shouldn't be called horror
I don't understand where the high rating is coming from. How can a horror movie fan enjoy basically a self-defense shooting movie so much? There's no likable characters here, and the potential source of fear is a very regular although strong human being. Yes, he is off in his idea of revenge, but he measures his cruelty which is unlikely for thriller, isn't it? What is "horror" about it? Sheldon Cooper's problems were more "horror" than this. I think one reviewer here said it best: "Don't Breathe is a grisly, unpleasant exploitation film about characters that you don't like going up against a man who is at first somewhat sympathetic and then turns out to be a ridiculous mess of a (human) monster, and it's directed with some skill."
Avgust. Vosmogo (2012)
solid action - war through the eyes of a child and a woman
The plot tells a story of young Muscovite Ksenia who sends her son to Caucasus to be with his father, her Ossetian ex-husband. Suddenly the war breaks out in the region, and Ksenia has to fly down there to rescue her child.
Fayziev said that his heroine isn't suited for anything but mundane household dramas. Yet she has to go through the war experience and can't let herself get tired, refuse or complain, because she doesn't have a choice.
The girl is annoying in the beginning, a bad mom in a miniskirt who cares only about her boyfriend. Then the character develops, she grows to be a decent mother who even understands how to cope with a breakdown of her son, who starts to hide from war in a world of imaginary robots. The film reminded me of Guillermo del Toro's "Pan's Labyrinth" because of the kid's way to protect himself from terror.
The film has quite a crew: talented young actors, screenwriter Michael Lerner, who worked for 20 years as a war correspondent for Newsweek, Oscar-nominated film editor Dennis Virkler, Oscar-awarded sound producer Bob Bimmer ("Speed" and "Gladiator") and talented computer graphics coordinator Sergei Nevshupov ("Lord of The Rings" and "Avatar"). Animation consultant on the set was Alexander Dorogov, who's known for his work with Walt Disney Feature Animation.
Fayziev said he initially planned foreign professionals on key production roles, "so that they showed us how to do decent movies correctly and to speed up the process."
We are used here to prefer Hollywood movies to local, because the latter are less visual. Well, this one pulls the image pretty well and might be the first made on such a level in Russia.