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        SO....... when the thought of seeing experimental horror, became a possibility, I was curious on what that would mean, as a viewer. Let me tell you, I was not ready....

 I cannot even, call it much of a story, but to sum it up best way I can is as follows. Two children wake up in the middle of the night to find that their father has disappeared. As the night goes on things like windows, toilets, and lightbulbs start to disappear as well.

 I did like a lot of visuals in the movie. It felt very home movie, which creates a better atmosphere for this film. There is an overall feeling of claustrophobia that it nails. The movie takes place in 1995, and they made the camera quality match that.

 My biggest gripe is just Ii had a real hard time following what was going on through this entire film. There is a basic seed of an idea here that runs for one hundred minutes. When movies are more about the experience it tends to lose me. An atmosphere is hard to keep up for any film, when you have so little of a story, it is hard to keep people interested in it. This year we had two great examples of atmosphere movies, " Babylon" and "Avatar". If you can keep the general momentum of your story moving forward people can get lost in the world and not wonder what is going on. I think the one-hundred-minute run time crushes this movies potential. Cut it to a short, you have something better.

I will be thinking about this one for a long time, I'll give it that. 

GRADE: C    
 

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