¡Qué horror! 2014
Candidate #3
STATIC
(November 2012)
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Though this is largely an entry in the home invasion sub-genre, there’s more that goes on here, courtesy of director Todd Levin, working from a story and screenplay credited to himself and three other individuals (Gabriel Cowan, Andrew Orci, and John Suits).
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Parting Shot: A review of The Last House on the Left remake (incidentally a ¡Qué horror! 2009 title) lurks in the Archive.
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It's a familiar set-up: the
Dades (Milo Ventimiglia, also serving as an Executive Producer, and Person of Interest’s Sarah Shahi) are
living out in the country. Their marriage isn’t in the best of places. Meanwhile,
the arrival of a stranger (Sara Paxton, no stranger to ¡Qué horror! territory due to Dennis Iliadis’ The Last House on the Left remake and Ti
West’s The Innkeepers) throws things
even more of out of whack, and Static’s
tale begins in earnest.
Though this is largely an entry in the home invasion sub-genre, there’s more that goes on here, courtesy of director Todd Levin, working from a story and screenplay credited to himself and three other individuals (Gabriel Cowan, Andrew Orci, and John Suits).
And
while a home invasion entry is certainly nothing new these days, not to mention
that where Static ends up also isn’t
particularly new, the execution is nonetheless commendable. Also, there’s a
certain slant that’s given to the proceedings that is admittedly an uncommon
angle.
We
also get to briefly see Lost’s
William Mapother, so that’s always a plus.
To
say more would unduly spoil things, so the best I can say is, stay alert and
observant; you may, after all, get an inkling of where the film is going before
the climax.
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Parting Shot: A review of The Last House on the Left remake (incidentally a ¡Qué horror! 2009 title) lurks in the Archive.
(Static OS courtesy of
upcoming-movies.com; DVD cover art courtesy of bloody-disgusting.com.)
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