 Thanks for checking out this movie review video This is for the 2018 film the marshes and this one is a shutter original so big shout out Thank you to shutter for providing me with screeners for this one and for everything because going forward I'm gonna try to do all the screeners that they will provide so This one was written and directed by a Roger Scott who doesn't have much of any sort of credits on IMDb And a lot of it's kind of like it looks like it's maybe short films or something I don't know stuff that I'm not familiar with and there's not much it's an Australian horror film and That's probably why it was a 2018 film and now we're just about to get it on shutter So when I'm recording this it's a few days before the actual shutter release of it The release of it is Thursday the 9th of January 2020 so This is gonna be a no spoilers thing although I Don't know I mean it's gonna be no spoilers. I'm and that's just because if anyone wants to watch it go ahead and watch it But you can watch you know this review that I'm doing and then go watch it and nothing Well, I've actually been spoiled for you as far as the actual events of the film and the story now I I am gonna say I don't recommend this film. I actually thought This was a slog this film much like the water in Marsh's was very stagnant and I don't know why shutter spent their money on this to be honest So I feel bad saying it because shutter provides me with these screeners and they have a lot of awesome stuff But this is just I Don't know but let me let me get into it. I don't what I gave you back story-wise is is all the extra information I have about the film. There's not a whole lot extra to it because it's such a new film and like I said I'm not gonna throw out any spoilers here. So there you go The opening is a biology related visual actually and it the opening of this the beginning visuals are actually very very cool They look very good. That is the best part of the film by far It was very inspired some really good camera work and it just looked Really good really really good Goes way downhill after that So I feel like the biologist characters in this are painted as super nerds early on Which kind of feeds into something in general that's going on in this film Which is there are very basic characters in it who are very stereotypical for who they're supposed to be and There's not a whole lot of development or anything. They're very face value. They're not very interesting. There's not a lot going on between them. It's Everything is very blah. It's like cardboard now that said The acting is actually pretty solid So I kind of feel for the actors involved in this film because they did a good job with what they were given The issue is there's not a whole lot of story there. It's not very well written. It seems like it was Maybe should have been a short film. I don't know but there's there's not a feature length film here There really isn't but I'll talk about that a little bit more as as I go on It's very slow. It's very boring. It is an unbelievable slog of a film and I cannot recommend it at all to anyone To anyone. I'm sorry So one of the biologists in this rails about population of humans actually going unchecked And this is one of the moments I actually kind of liked dialogue wise because this is something I've personally talked about for a long time about The impending doom and the huge issue of the human population not being in check Now I'm not saying that from the standpoint of thinking saying that we should like be euthanizing people and stuff like that I don't think that I just think that we should have an open discussion in society about You know, maybe you don't want to have a lot of children You know, maybe just if you're going to have children have one So that the couple is being pared down over time to just one person instead of once those two people die Or just replace yourselves Just have two kids, but when you're having more children It's just adding to the population I know this is my little soapbox thing and I apologize for that But it it's more of a just thinking ahead type thing at some point the earth's not really going to be able to Withstand the giant population that just keeps growing and growing and growing There's only so many resources and then there's going to be lots and lots of problems like famine and war and blah blah blah Not like we don't already have that but it shall be even worse But anyway, sorry for talking about that. It's just a thing that this film brought up And I was like, yeah, you know, it's that's something I I've talked about plenty of times in my life So these people don't seem to work much That's one of the weird things that kind of popped up. They're kind of like Hey, we're gonna go do our job as as biologists and then they get to where they're supposed to do their job and you're like They're not really doing a whole lot of work. They're mainly just hanging out Drinking and camping Is this what their job is? I don't know. I do know some people who don't really work all that hard at their job So maybe they're just like them I don't know. It just didn't seem to jive. It was very weird Uh, they overdo it with some deliverance references at one point The first reference they make it seemed like one scene and it it's not like drawn out But there's like one reference to deliverance that was like, oh, that's you know, kind of funny-ish And then they drop two more references Like this kind of wait, wait, wait. Did you get it? No, no, no I mean, did you get it and you're just like Okay One reference was more than enough now you're sounding desperate Stop It was it's just too much like just do the reference And move on and people will get it people will get it. You don't need to beat it to death Like things in this movie are beaten to death There's way too much hanging out going on in this and not enough of moving any sort of story forward There's not a whole lot of story there in the first place There was a lot of promise in the setup of where things could have gone They didn't really go anywhere But there's a lot of wasted time and they could have spent that time moving a story forward But there's none like I said in the beginning much like the water of marshes. It's stagnant It's just there There's just nothing happening for the longest time at some point there is something happening But even when something finally happens It starts to stagnate with the same types of scenes being replayed over and over and over and over again And you're just like this is nothing new. Why are we continuing to do the same thing over and over and over again? It does nothing for the film except make it awful and slow and unwatchable unwatchable So I wrote nothing. It's nothing really interesting happens in this film until about 50 minutes in And the runtime for this film is an hour and 25 minutes. That's inexcusable. That's ridiculous 50 minutes in is when you actually throw in an interesting concept And it's an hour and 25 minute film You can't do that That's short an hour and 25 minutes is actually short now when you watch this film it feels super long because it's so boring but You have to you have to throw something interesting in very very early if it's only in like an hour and 25 minutes I mean really like don't wait too long I I would say the longest I would wait is like maybe 15 minutes in to to introduce something interesting But 50 minutes that's not it no no no no and even then when it does that It does something interesting and then it kind of backs off a bit And then like I said it just they just keep replaying the same types of scenes even though there's something going on They're just repeating these scenes. They're all very similar And you're just like okay. Can we have something different or new like is there something to this story really? I guess not There's some cool wildlife Wildlife shots in this and the locations look good. That's one of the things there are some really cool inspired cinematography moments where You know they're focusing on some creatures or they're focusing on just like the beauty of the marshes and you know the the surrounding areas and and it looks really good at times, but That's only going to go so far as it's not a national geographic show It's it's supposed to be a movie an engaging horror movie and it is not So overall the camera work is not good. Like I said, I just said there are some nice cinematography moments, but those are very small just a few of them And uh, this is an unbelievably shaky Movie it it's so weird like I you can tell they're not using a tripod for a majority of the film And but the amount of movement like it's swaying back and forth a lot and just moving so much I have never seen so much camera movement In a horror film that's not a found footage film And that's inexcusable because it takes focus off what's going on. It can make people nauseous That's another thing because the amount of motion with the camera in this I could easily see making people nauseous and it's just distracting. It looks terrible I have not seen bad camera work like this in a long time in a movie It's any like I said, it's inexcusable. It is inexcusable. There are tripods if you cannot keep it still Use a tripod. You don't even need to have a tripod stack up some boxes and put the camera on top of it Get creative do something if you can't tell this movie. I want my time back Characters are very basic and uncomplicated Nothing to care about Like I said before these are flat characters. There's no sort of development really it's Couldn't care less about them kill them all Seems like there wasn't much of a script and they just kind of winged it a whole lot when they were making this Yeah, that's what it seemed like much like the characters when they go out to do their job They get out there and they just start drinking beers and hanging out and camping It's kind of what I think was going on with this film being made To be honest because really there's not a whole lot of story there. There's not a whole lot going on There's so much wasted time. It's so stretched out It's it's just It seems like they winged it a lot So this was a short film at best You can't stretch just anything to a feature length Uh, there's potential there was potentially a good idea here Uh, that could have been made a movie somewhere in the script But this movie is certainly not it Doesn't even come close Cannot recommend it It's bad um This really pains me to kind of have this verdict on the film because I went into it and I really Anytime I get these screeners from shutter, especially when it's like a shutter exclusive or a shutter original I really hope for the best. I really want to like these films because I really like shutter and they do great things Obviously, I mean, I've devoted a lot of my channel on youtube to shutter So there's great stuff, but not everything's going to be good and this is probably The least interesting worst movie I've reviewed on my channel thus far to be honest And that's saying No, that's not actually saying a lot to me. I was gonna say that's saying a lot No, it's not because I've actually I review I try to review movies that I like when I'm choosing them or ones that I really think I'm gonna like or are so bad They're fun and awesome so um This is that that element of since I'm just accepting screeners just saying send me all the screeners You really don't know what you're gonna get. It's it's it's a grab bag. And this is my first like real poop Uh I'm I'm not digging it. Can you tell that I didn't like this film? I hated this film No, I can't recommend it for anyone. So, uh, in on a five star scale with half stars in play Half star, I mean That's the lowest I'm gonna give to like I don't give zero stars. I'm giving it a half star. It is my lowest I mean Yes, there was I could have bumped it up to one star And I thought about doing that just because there were some nice looking scenes and the acting was actually pretty solid But all the other issues are just so inexcusably bad It's especially the shaky camera work. I mean Geez that I just half star. So sorry. Um, I would love though to hear some opinions in the comments If there's anyone who likes this, you know, I'm passionate when I give my reviews Uh Mostly, I mean well, not mostly but especially passionate when they're films. I really don't like or rub me the wrong way So, you know, don't take offense to that if you're watching this and you're like, well, I really like that There's nothing wrong with you. This is all You know subjective This is all just from my own opinion and I understand that people are going to like this film That definitely there will be people who like this film and I'm not passing any judgment on you. That's fine I'm sure there are plenty of films that I really love that people will be like, are you kidding me? One of them may be being the film hackers There's something about it. So anyway, put some comments down there. Let me know your thoughts on this film Give me a thumbs up if you'd like to if you like this video or any videos I do And the big thing is please help me out hit that subscribe button I really want to grow my channel have more interact action with people talk about horror more And I'm not making money doing this. So your way to repay me is just by hitting that like And it's quick and painless And thank you. But anyway, thanks for checking this video out until next time. Keep it brutal