Nobody screams. Nobody calls the police. A 10-year-old boy stares agape on one side of a door while his mother repeatedly smashes her head into the other side, and does nothing. It takes the decimation of an entire factory staff to make the heavy chick get up off her duff to find out what's going on. Then she moves at a glacial pace through the human wreckage looking for the perp, rather than trying to get the hell outta there.
To its credit, the film manages to capture the repetitive, dull routine of a one-horse town in winter quite effectively. Some of the (amateur) acting is actually quite good at certain points, while being just awful in others.
The biggest problem with the film is that the plot is void of motivation. WHY was the entity that was doing what it was doing, doing it? What did it achieve? Or did it fail? All these questions are left unanswered, and the voice-over news commentary at the end, tacked on as a kind of explanatory coda, just doesn't work as a denouement.
Could have been much better. But it is what it is, esoteric title and all.
To its credit, the film manages to capture the repetitive, dull routine of a one-horse town in winter quite effectively. Some of the (amateur) acting is actually quite good at certain points, while being just awful in others.
The biggest problem with the film is that the plot is void of motivation. WHY was the entity that was doing what it was doing, doing it? What did it achieve? Or did it fail? All these questions are left unanswered, and the voice-over news commentary at the end, tacked on as a kind of explanatory coda, just doesn't work as a denouement.
Could have been much better. But it is what it is, esoteric title and all.