Post by maliciousstudios on Oct 17, 2007 22:42:48 GMT -5
ON EDGE
This story deals with one of the things that the human kind dislike the most : going to the dentist’s.
The plot is mainly based on the actor skills of Doug Bradley whose performance is absolutely fantastic with contradictory emotions switches and is both convincing by his attitude and the look in his eyes, but also both in his charming and his threatening sides of his character.
The camerawork is great too. Indeed, the camera is mainly fixed on Doctor Mathews so that we are put into the place of this poor Mr Thurlow. This way of shooting also allows not to see what is happening until the director chooses to show you, allowing the viewer to set his mind free and imagine what happens… be patient… you’ll get to see that in time!
Moreover, the characteristic noises at the dentist’s, that we all know about, confirms the horror of the image that we all can imagine in our mind. All the movie long, you suffer as much as that poor patient! Simple but successful!
Horror also lays in the monologue established by Doctor Mathews, the patient founding himself in the impossibility to answer. Here also, Doug Bradley is absolutely marvellous and shows his great acting skills, outside of his Pinhead part in the “HELLRAISER” series for which he’s very popular. The scenario and the script are very well written and lead us, from a moment to another, though dark humour or fear. All is well until the last scene I won’t tell you about except that the make-up made by Bob Keen, another “HELLRAISER” veteran, is outstanding and is worth being seen!!! The horror of the whole short movie is at last visualized in this great scene!
One thing’s for sure : after watching that, you’ll look at your dentist differently!
Finally, both industrial and metal music fans will enjoy the music both in the prologue and the epilogue!
This story deals with one of the things that the human kind dislike the most : going to the dentist’s.
The plot is mainly based on the actor skills of Doug Bradley whose performance is absolutely fantastic with contradictory emotions switches and is both convincing by his attitude and the look in his eyes, but also both in his charming and his threatening sides of his character.
The camerawork is great too. Indeed, the camera is mainly fixed on Doctor Mathews so that we are put into the place of this poor Mr Thurlow. This way of shooting also allows not to see what is happening until the director chooses to show you, allowing the viewer to set his mind free and imagine what happens… be patient… you’ll get to see that in time!
Moreover, the characteristic noises at the dentist’s, that we all know about, confirms the horror of the image that we all can imagine in our mind. All the movie long, you suffer as much as that poor patient! Simple but successful!
Horror also lays in the monologue established by Doctor Mathews, the patient founding himself in the impossibility to answer. Here also, Doug Bradley is absolutely marvellous and shows his great acting skills, outside of his Pinhead part in the “HELLRAISER” series for which he’s very popular. The scenario and the script are very well written and lead us, from a moment to another, though dark humour or fear. All is well until the last scene I won’t tell you about except that the make-up made by Bob Keen, another “HELLRAISER” veteran, is outstanding and is worth being seen!!! The horror of the whole short movie is at last visualized in this great scene!
One thing’s for sure : after watching that, you’ll look at your dentist differently!
Finally, both industrial and metal music fans will enjoy the music both in the prologue and the epilogue!