 Thanks for checking out this movie review video So this is really 2016 film the void and just so you know since it is a 2016 film I will be doing spoilers because it's been you know almost four years basically since it's been out so spoilers Although if you have interest in this film and you want to see this video, but you haven't seen the void stop right now Go watch it on shutter then come back because it is available on shutter when I'm doing this review So I because I do recommend it. It is good So this was written and directed by Steven Kostansky and Jeremy Gillespie Kostansky Kostansky is most known for doing his films with asteron seven of Manborg father's day and then he also did makeup for the movie the divide which is a good film I would recommend that one and Gillespie is known for doing Manborg father's day And then he worked in the art department for huge films the shape of water Pacific Rim it Chapter one and two Shazam and the new show lock and key and he did visual effects for the film Mandy which is also available on shutter the shutter original or exclusive. Sorry shutter exclusive This is technically a asteron six film by the way But they chose not to brand it that way because it doesn't have comedy to it And if you've already seen this film you're watching this, you know It does not have comedy to it, but I'm totally good with that So the all their other stuff was more comedic Which I actually have not seen their other stuff Manborg father's day in the editor I do want to see those because I've heard nothing but good things But yeah, so that's why they didn't call it asteron six because it departs from what they do as Asteron six so the creature effects for this were actually crowd funded, which is a cool idea from Indiegogo They ended up with eighty two thousand five hundred and ten dollars in order to do their creature effects and oh my gosh They use that money. Well, I love Love the creatures in this the design is great the way they pulled it all off The practical effects are one of the main strengths of this film. I really love that So lots of people ended up comparing this film apparently to films from the 80s And I see why that is because in the end at the end of the review I'll tell you what I think this is a mix of and you can tell me if you think I'm right And then that makes more sense why people would be like, oh, it's very much like 80s So Gillespie wanted to make a lovecraft an hp. Lovecraft derived film And that's why we got the void now if you know that and then you watch it you you definitely see how it's very very lovecraft So yeah, Gillespie called this production a nightmare And the only good thing was the the cast Were really skilled and good and they were easy to work with which I will confirm I think the acting was quite good for this one. There wasn't anyone in it who I was like, ooh You know, I was I was pretty happy with the cast It's it's sad though to hear that it was a nightmare to make because then that means that they're Probably less likely to do another film like this and I would love another film like this from them So hopefully over a little bit of time, you know the the pain of it goes away and they you're just like, you know What we should do another film like the void Well, it's a pretty messed up start with a girl being burned alive Is a very messed up start for the film and you don't forget this So when these guys end up showing up in the hospital, they're very suspicious I think that's something that you did kind of well in this film is They make you feel As you're going throughout the film they make you feel very Unsure of what's gonna happen. You don't know what's coming next. You don't know what people's motives are necessarily You're very suspicious of almost everyone, especially when things start to get going and and motives are kind of Motives or involvement and things are kind of like very slowly revealed It just builds more suspicion and you're like, well, is this is this person bad or is this person good? Or is it somewhere in between? I don't know. So I like that It's immediately obvious this black triangle actually means something On the door and on the hooded figure that you see immediately So that's kind of cool It does convey the idea of some sort of order or cult or something like that And by the way, I'm just going to refer to all the people in white with the black triangles as cultists Because that's totally what they seem like Um, I wrote it's rolled from letter Kenny If anyone watches the show letter Kenny the guy who's the drug user in the beginning Who is taken to the hospital? That's the actor Evan Stern and he plays the character of rolled in letter Kenny You know, it's interesting because I was just saying like a day or two before I watched this movie That he's one of the best actors on letter Kenny and I was like he does such an amazing job So it's great to see him in this film. He's doing other stuff. He deserves it And also ellen wong from scott pilgrim Versus the world is in this she's the one who played knifes cho and scott pilgrim And she did a very good job in this as well. Like I said acting was good They do a good job setting up the seclusion early in this film between all the woods that they end up showing The empty looking hospital and the fact that they're saying they're packing up So they're even leaving the town. It feels very rural. They create a very good ambiance even the outside of the hospital Like when they go outside to You know go back to the police car to get the shotgun and everything It looks secluded. It looks very very isolated and I think that really helps You know if you've watched enough of my review videos, you know, I really appreciate the whole seclusion thing It it works very well for me personally. Love it. Love it. Love it Um, I did not see that lady stabbing the dude in the eye coming I totally did not see that um But that's a great thing like the the twists and turns the stuff that you don't expect coming ends up being the best stuff Um, so and it was disturbing. It was definitely disturbing and then the fact that she was like peeling stuff off her face Uh, yeah. Yeah, that's good. It's gruesome and unexpected The state trooper was immediately suspicious to me that ended up not turning into anything which is good Um, I thought he he was going to be part of that kind of cultist grouping because he um, You know asks for the gun like he does a lot of suspicious things He's like how many people are in here, you know, give me your gun and he just like oh I feel like he's setting it up so the cultists can rush in here and overtake everyone and and kill them Or whatever they're going to do But that ended up being nothing but it speaks to how well it was written to make you suspicious The cultists that pop up outside are a really good touch Uh, it helps with that kind of confined feeling because even even if they get outside of the hospital They don't know how many of these cultists are out there and obviously they all have knives or other weapons I think there are other weapons they have and not just knives, but yeah So that's very very effective. It helps with the confinement. It helps with knowing there's a danger outside. So you just can't go out When you see Beverly transformed, you know, this film is going to deliver Because that reminded me right there of the thing like the way they design those creatures and the way that The practical effects look it really reminded me of the thing. I mean, it's not quite that level because the thing is like insane and still holds up but not far off in my opinion and that's That's what pulled me in the most immediately with this film. It's like, oh my they're going for it. I like it So the guy's just hacking at that creature was a bloody good time Um, it seemed like it went on a little bit long but I actually like the fact that it went on a little bit long because it was just like excessive gore and violence and um Yeah, I feel like it just kind of fit with the film and uh, yeah, it was nice The red and white flashing light or the I'm sorry red and blue flashing lights on the cultists when they Run out to the police cruiser and they're trying to get the shotgun out of there And then there's all those cultists in the white and they turn the lights on like the flashing of the the the red and the blue Looks really cool. It's an awesome visual and that kind of gets to the fact that the cinematography is really good with this The directing is really good with this. It it looks good It looks quite good and the costuming obviously the practical effects. I already talked about Nobody would suspect the old doctor, especially when you thought he was dead That's a great great touch. You know, first of all people aren't really going to suspect the old man in a hospital During this whole siege because you're focused on the cultists And that's another great thing about the cultists is that they kind of take your attention away from where it's actually going They're involved obviously, but the main they're not the main evil There's something much bigger And so I like the touch of it being the old doctor But then the further touch of you think he's dead at one point, but he's not All the bodies coming to life looks great and that was 100 percent my favorite scene It was nightmarish. It was tense. It was Beautiful from the standpoint of like disgusting gory practical effects. Um That that's probably one of the things that was the biggest nightmare to shoot in my opinion I'm just guessing here obviously, but the ambiance looked great. The lighting was cool. It was very like red and black and just It looked amazing. It was phenomenal And if people are going to get scared at any point in this film, that's when people would get scared I I love that portion of the film I did not see the twist with the pregnant girl coming I did not think she was going to slit her grandfather's throat and be like Hey, I'm a part of this cult thing and uh, let's have this messed up baby This like cthulhu baby kind of I'm just making an assumption tying it to Lovecraft Uh, the scene where carter has to hack up his wife is Kind of rough, but I will say I don't actually like the the story point of The um the police officer carter and his wife, you know With a problem with their relationship and having lost the baby and above like I understand it's about loss and you didn't need that Like I felt like it was very unnecessary and for me in particular and this is just a personal thing I hate when people employ children In films not because i'm against anything like child violence or child death or anything like that in films But it's because i'm against Using that as a way to try and pull at people's heartstrings because I think it's lazy And I think you're using just something that you know like oh This is an easy thing to like get most people to actually care or feel bad or feel uncomfortable So I don't like that about the script. I actually think it holds the film back slightly and the loss that was um That was experienced by the doctor himself was enough. They could have just focused on that so Final creature is awesome. Awesome. Awesome Outstanding falls in line with what I was saying about how good These practical effects are Um, and this movie is pretty jam packed with craziness and it moves at a really good pace. That's one of the best things There are so many films, especially like lower budget films where They feel like they really drag at some point because they can't just like keep throwing money into practical effects and crazy scenes and everything Um, but this movie it just it moves very well edited. I like it So that's kind of all I have to say about the thing Um, I did quite like the ending except that portion at the very very end where carter and his wife are kind of like in this Other worldly thing and they are holding hands Like I think that was kind of a dumb ending But if they would have just chopped that off the end, I think it would have been a good ending. I enjoyed it I love the music in this in the beginning. It's spacey and a bit creepy. I really like that did remind me of the 80s Reminds me a bit of the x-files actually the music for the x-files So that was nice and then it gets like tense and it gets very dark When it's needed. So they did a good job with the music There have been plenty of movies like this with people trapped in a building with a looming danger ounce outside Well, this one feels familiar Because of that it also has its own fun and its own twist It forges its own path and that's important because I've seen so many movies that do the same thing And there's nothing new. There's nothing all that interesting. They're just retreading well worn ground So I like that they did not in this instance So for me the film feels a lot like a mix between reanimate a mix of Reanimator the thing and hellraiser Especially hellraiser I'd say I'd say hellraiser the biggest portion But then also reanimator and the thing because hellraiser obviously with all the stuff that happens in the end It's like a portal to hell opening and all the creatures And the the doctor what he turns into reminds me a lot of pinhead And the doctor who turns into a centabyte in the second film So, yeah, that's very hellraiser the thing obviously for all the practical effects and the creatures and stuff that turns into And the confinement and then reanimator because of the whole taking science and working against nature to To you know beat death in a sense. So Uh, this is very much about how loss changes people and what lengths people will go to in order to have loved ones back If they see a way to make it happen Obviously that plays The most with the doctor who's doing all this terrible stuff, but it's also playing with carter and his wife Um, especially when he comes across her and she's all messed up and she's like, but we're gonna have a baby and You know all that stuff Which I did not like like I said, I was just like We don't need that so let's you know, but it fits into that theme Um humanity has always fought against death, but there's no winning that battle Yeah, that's a theme that comes up all the time in these types of horror films and Yeah, just know that we will always fight against death and we do that in our On our normal lives as a society, you know coming up with vaccines and trying to keep people from getting sick and you know Building walls Below sea level so that the water won't flood people and you know all these things like we do things to combat nature and to combat death And in the end, you know, we can stave it off for a bit. Well, we're all gonna die And we're all gonna experience loss And that's a little bit what this film is kind of about and then the lengths that people will go to to overcome that and What that will do to your humanity and potentially all of the rest of humanity In this instance. So this is a good film obviously because I've talked well about it. So out of five stars um So like I said, there's some things with the story I didn't quite like So this makes it hard for me because I'm between like a three and a half and a four I feel like I got to go with three and a half But if I was doing quarters, I'd do that 3.75 and it was close to a four for me So sorry, but I'm doing a three and a half on this one, but definitely a good film Definitely one I would watch again and I would recommend to people so Good stuff put some comments down here. Have you seen the void? What are your thoughts? Do you agree with me on things? 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