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This is for the 2020 release dead house dark It's a shutter original and it's coming to shutter on Thursday April 29th Now I said review video instead of saying movie review video this time because this is actually a mini series Kind of this is similar if people are familiar to the release that shutter did for the show Blood Machines which is basically just a multi-part show which basically you can watch it one sitting easily that makes one big movie this kind of is that but each of the kind of segments are self-contained stories that also kind of connect to one another in ways and It basically is an anthology film in essence because if you put it all together It's about an hour and a half because each one is around 15 minutes So very digestible you could cut it up into pieces if you want to savor it or you can just do the whole thing at Once and binge it if you also want to it goes both ways So since it's six separate stories I am not going to give synopses of each of the stories because they're so short that it would you know Saying much of anything about them would ruin too much, but I will tell you what the titles are But I also will rate each one individually and then give you kind of an overall rating of my feeling of overall the series because Since this is a shutter original series that it could end up becoming multiple seasons, which I think could be interesting definitely I always like anthology stuff. So I was intrigued by this. So anyway, this was created by Enzo Tedeschi Who also did a night of horror event is zero and killer lines, which I'm not actually familiar with any of those It's a series of six interconnected short films basically like I said once again coming Thursday April 29th So this is ahead of time. So obviously no spoilers synopsis basically it they all have Moralities to them basically there's like a moral of the story type thing going on here And like I said, they do connect to each other in certain ways That's all I'm gonna say about it. So the first one is called Dash cam and I just have a few kind of notes for each one overall feeling about it and certain things Good and bad about each one first ones dash cam There is a good amount of time with no music with this one, which I'm a big fan of doing that in film So that kind of helps up the tension. So I like that It's kind of found a footage style Which kind of lends itself to even if it's not like super long kind of feeling like you're waiting too much and Things are kind of stretched out and long. So that's one of the reasons I just don't really like found footage style film anyway So if you like found footage, it might not bother you that much for me. It does bother me. It's just a personal thing There's also like this thing they do where they're kind of like mess up the video intentionally from time to time. I Don't like that like I understand there There is a reason for it and you'll see what that is but I don't think it's enough of a reason to do it because it's actually just annoying and I don't think they needed it. So overall I give dash cam two out of five stars The half stars are in play for all of these just so people know The next one is called no pain no gain That one I thought was an intriguing idea But it does present as in kind of an unbelievable way You don't really believe that the main character involved would be doing what they're actually doing and that was kind of my biggest Issue with this particular story. I didn't like that aspect of it Directing and acting is solid in this one. So that's good And the ending isn't that hard to see coming either I kind of had a feeling that this was going where it was going. So I Don't like that about it either. So overall I'm gonna give no pain no gain one and a half stars So going down, but we're rebounding you'll see stronger finish The third one is called the staircase now This had interesting characters and they were really well acted this one of the first three This one has the best acting as you're going through it You really notice that in my opinion and like I said the characters are pretty well written They're pretty interesting characters It has some pretty solidly sustained horror as well And there's good tension that's actually built with some solid atmosphere as well So I did find this one pretty pretty decent. I'm giving it two and a half stars So two and a half stars for the staircase the fourth one is a tangled web We weave now this one also had quite good acting to follow the last one It had a bit of this kind of quirkiness to the story and to the to the characters as well Which I really did enjoy always like that when a good quirkiness has kind of worked in there And it had good pacing and an interesting enough story that was not fully original But had its own original take on this type of story that I've seen before so I Enjoyed it. It was pretty good. I'm giving this three stars a tangled web We weave three stars now the next one was called mystery box and this was my favorite one of all of them The directing and cinematography for this one actually stand out quite a bit Directing's all good throughout the throughout all the pieces of this series But this one in particular mystery box. I think really really stands out because there's some really inspired Shots there's some really great camera movement It really sets itself apart from the rest of them Directorially and cinematography wise so I that's one of the reasons I really like this one Really good atmosphere gets created with this the music really is used to great effect with this one There's good acting in this one as well They they're able to maintain really good tension And they also are able to kind of weave things together and create a really nice kind of emotion In the end of the film and that's all I'm gonna say about that but nice twist to it interesting story I did like this one. Like I said, this is my favorite one I'm giving it three and a half stars So mystery box three and a half stars and rounding it out Story number six is my empire of dirt now. This one had really good acting as well one role in particular That's a really hard role. That's a really hard role and they did an excellent job with it So really good acting on this one as well Very dark The subject matters pretty dark And this may be a little tough for some people because it may have some people may have an emotional connection to this one Because if you've been through kind of a similar situation So you might be thinking one thing that I'm getting to but it's not that it's something else But but you'll see if you watch it So just know that it could be a little tough for some people to handle because it could bring up some bad memories Um some pretty good creepy stuff in the end of this one and the ending was okay Pretty decent ending. I do like that. They had some good practical effects at the end Always a fan of practical effects. So overall I gave this one three stars as well and Those are all the stories. So My empire of dirt gets a three star So I crunched the numbers and basically if I add them all together All the numbers together and then I divide them by six. It comes to like 2.8 something I think it's like 2.85 or something like that. So we round up. So overall I'm going to give it dead house dark Three stars. I would say check it out Especially if you're in anthology if you're not into anthology stuff or like bite size horror stuff You can skip on it But um, I think it's worth checking out and like I said, you know, you can break it up You can just do like One even right right before you go to bed just do like one every night for six nights It's very digestible. You can break it up. However you want really or you can just go through the whole thing So I like that it's you know able to suit your mood how you want to do that So I like that aspect of it Anyway, I would be interested to see a another season of this. 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