This short film belongs to the category of “suitcase without a handle”. And it's a pity to throw it away and not to drag it. The actors play somehow reluctantly and hulkingly, and in general, it seems that all the scenes were shot almost from the first take: a poorly hidden smile plays on the faces of the actors. It’s like deciding to shoot a horror/thriller during a friendly gathering. Everyone's fun and fun. Actions do not lend themselves to any logic, given the situation. Two Tess? Oh, whatever. Oh, there's one in the back, all covered in blood, talking in the afterlife! Oh, well, that's business.
Friends are resting, they say, in the woods. Help is not from anywhere, phones are ringing in the wrong place. But at the end of the film you can see well-groomed courtyards, a flat road, residential lighted houses. Well, maybe the wilderness is a forest of three pines, who knows.
Everyone's running somewhere, fussing. And most importantly, the house is not big. But if one group goes up to the second floor or into the next room, the rest are completely deaf. Outside the wall, they'll scream, cut, kill, but nobody cares. It's like a different reality.
Well, it's more interesting from now on. Who was let in? Why did he point to a bearded man (the actor looks like Radcliffe, in my opinion), and he does? What is it, a time loop or a glitch? Who wrote the text?
If we approached the project a little more seriously, it might not be a bad psychological horror movie in the style of Hitchcock. Yes, and ch/b shooting plus a scene in the shower seems to hint. But, whether the authors themselves did not decide on the genre, or lacked experience.
I liked the film more than vice versa. Saved the duration. But still, "suitcase without a pen."
Two points. Plus one point for the “mafia men” in black, one for the denouement and one for the most beautiful views of the North in the final credits (I don’t know how side they are here).
5 out of 10