Review of Effects

Effects (1979)
7/10
Self aware you say?
26 June 2020
I am or was when I watched this, quite pleasantly surprised. The production values may not be the best (low budget and all), but the story of a movie being shot and the suspicion being there might be something real to the violence going on ... well while this may not seem like revolutionary or even new if you think about movies you've seen, but I would assume it was back then.

And it aged quite well, which has to do with quite the tight script. Some dialog and acting exercise may not feel "real", but it can be easily excused if you let yourself enjoy the movie for what it is and what it's supposed to represent. Horror movies could and did try to shock in more than one way ...
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