Total darkness... No, slag. The rating of the film is quite justified. And even 3.3 points is a very large advance, given to “Delirium” – a film that is claimed as a horror film, but it is not.
Student Youth Fraternity. To join it, you need to visit at night in an abandoned mansion where a mass murder once occurred. One of the students, who is very eager to join the fraternity to become cool, drink beer, hang out with beautiful girls and have a full program at a serene time for themselves (all these are usually students on campus and do, if you believe the cinema), follows the lead of future brothers and goes to the mansion. Only he disappears and his companions go to the mansion behind him, where, according to legend, ghosts live. Naturally, in such an unused and one-of-a-kind plot, the creators have reserved for the viewer a whole lot of pleasant surprises!
In general, director Johnny Martin, who by the age of 55 made 5 films, the wildest of which was Skeleton Man in the first half of the zeros, tried to make a film that would stand out from a number of similar films about sinister houses! For example, where did you see a group of people wandering around the mansion, thus becoming an accessible target for the forces of evil? That's not what the filmmakers thought of, and Johnny Martin took this step! Moreover, the heroes, saying that it is necessary to stick together, immediately wander like sheep into the meadow, thereby bringing trouble to their families. By the way, it is strange that in this film there are no black people, because they usually die first.
Or have you seen in horror movies sinister cellars where all sorts of game happens and where you shouldn’t go? Or one of the characters, seeing a person (entity), which next to him well should not be near (especially when you consider that this is a child in an abandoned house, for example), still goes to him, asking “is he all right”, thereby bringing his death closer. Well, about the semi-pseudo-documentary style of shooting is not necessary to talk at all - here only Zhora Kryzhovnikov and his dilogy "Bitter" comes to mind, because there, and in "Delirium" one of the main participants of the events acted as an operator.
Zero templates, maximum tension caused by the constant crown in the screen, illuminated only by the rays of hand lanterns, the constantly shaking camera (obviously, the operator was also wildly afraid), cutting sounds, from which goosebumps run down the skin, hastily collecting suitcases and moving to the neighbors below, the sudden appearance of various creatures in the frame, and at the most unexpected moment when you relaxed and do not expect anything - if you turn on "Delirium" you are waiting for a complete immersion in the highest level of professionalism, and a worthy of the soul.
But look at you. I do not impose my opinion on anyone.
Enjoy your visit.
2 out of 10