Directed by:
Mickey KeatingScreenplay:
Mickey KeatingCinematography:
Mac FiskenComposer:
Giona OstinelliVOD (3)
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After receiving a troubling voicemail, estranged siblings Ed and Lyla travel to their isolated family lake-house in Maine to hold an intervention on their increasingly paranoid, war veteran brother, Martin. But the situation rapidly spirals out of control when they discover the house completely ransacked and learn that Martin has constructed an elaborate and horrifying conspiracy theory surrounding a sinister entity that he believes he has trapped in the basement. (Monster Pictures)
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Decent horror-mystery snack. Keating wanted to make something like an episode of The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits or The X-Files as a feature film, and pulled it off, I believe. The question is whether it’ll be enough for the audience. For me, this time it was. This young director has, I hope, many films in his future to hone his unquestionable talent with some true gem. At times, Pod is nicely atmospheric and paranoid to scary, but also somewhat unfocused, there are scenes that feel like from another film and pulled me out of the experience. Oh! And Lyla, played by Lauren Ashley Carter, is probably the biggest cow in the history of filmmaking.
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These days, Pod is at least a watchable genre film, but one that again failed to live up to expectations. On the plus side, the short running time, the interesting ending and especially the final atmospheric 20 minutes play decently on the viewer's nerves, with a nice surprise in the basement. At night and with headphones on, I wouldn't be surprised if somebody got scared, the prerequisites for that are there. The downside is the unnecessary over-earnestness of the leading trio and the longer run-up. The lack of blood and jump scares is also a pity. Story 5/10, Atmosphere 7/10, Gore 2/10, Visuals 5/10, Action 3/10, Entertainment 5/10.60%
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The American horror film Pod is a film that won’t offend you in any way, and in fact it's decent, but it lacks that little something extra that would make me rate it as at least average. This way it's a pretty solid sub-average, but in the end you'll still end up remembering nothing much from the film. There are just too many of these types of horror films in the long run.
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