Here's another very enjoyable little indie thriller with virtually no budget that is offset by decent production values, good acting, and a nice storyline that could have been much more powerful with the addition of one or two lines of dialog in the final scene.
Four months before the April, 2003 invasion of Iraq, American psychic Hayley Sands (nice acting by relatively unknown Katie Flynn) is invited to a top-secret installation in Britain that has apparently captured a supernatural entity of some sort. The British military wants Hayley to initiate communications with the thing since she is known to have communicated with spirits in the past. The entity is kept in sort of a Faraday cage, contained by what is referred to as "reverse EM." There is a hole in the cage that is not explained to Hayley at first.
Most genre viewers can see where the story is going, but I won't issue any more descriptive explanations. The story actually plays to the strength of a lack of budget, i.e. special effects, so whenever something happens it can be both chilling and gruesome without going overboard. The first half of the film is the best part, while the latter half of the film becomes fairly standard. The conclusion is decent but could have been much better.
This is a recent addition to the Netflix disk inventory. It was a very pleasant surprise.
... Reed
Four months before the April, 2003 invasion of Iraq, American psychic Hayley Sands (nice acting by relatively unknown Katie Flynn) is invited to a top-secret installation in Britain that has apparently captured a supernatural entity of some sort. The British military wants Hayley to initiate communications with the thing since she is known to have communicated with spirits in the past. The entity is kept in sort of a Faraday cage, contained by what is referred to as "reverse EM." There is a hole in the cage that is not explained to Hayley at first.
Most genre viewers can see where the story is going, but I won't issue any more descriptive explanations. The story actually plays to the strength of a lack of budget, i.e. special effects, so whenever something happens it can be both chilling and gruesome without going overboard. The first half of the film is the best part, while the latter half of the film becomes fairly standard. The conclusion is decent but could have been much better.
This is a recent addition to the Netflix disk inventory. It was a very pleasant surprise.
... Reed
