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This work is free software you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation either version 2 of the License, or any later version. You may use it freely according to its particular license. Well worth a watch for sure.This screenshot either does not contain copyright-eligible parts or visuals of copyrighted software, or the author has released it under a free license (which should be indicated beneath this notice), and as such follows the licensing guidelines for screenshots of Wikimedia Commons. Without giving any spoilers it is hard to say a lot more, so I'll leave it at that except to say that it isn't often I admit that a horror film is actually horrifying, yet this one is because of the angle and originality of the plot. It's a short film but it is crammed with content, and the actual storyline when it reveals itself I have to say is genuinely horrific and highly believable. And it certainly is well made, but then Barry Levinson is a seasoned director which will have helped a great deal. After I saw Cloverfield, which I did enjoy, in particular the fact that it leaves you knowing very little really about what it had been about, I thought that worked.Įven though this is another of these I thought that the trailer whetted my appetite quite well, and decided it was interesting enough to try it. I have toyed around with them, The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity left me cold, I avoid most of them. In general, I am no fan of the whole hand-held camera genre.
But otherwise the transfer is nice and crisp and the sound is delivered via lossless dts-HD MA. Anchor Bay brings Breathless to Blu-Ray with a sun-soaked 1080p video transfer that absorbs skin texture and facial detail, but sometimes drops the ball when it comes to the soft tone and feel of. So the benefits of Blu-ray for these parts is debatable. Much of the film is taken up with supposed found footage which, of course, is grainy and shaky. But it does become very gross and isn't the sort of film that makes a good dinner companion.
The film is well made and the story is unrolled expertly, keeping the viewer interest up. These issues take away some of the reality and believability of the situation that they are trying to convey.
There is also no explanation as to why the incident happened so much later after this accident. And while this is well done, they do go over the top when they introduce the idea that a nuclear accident, a number of years earlier, resulted in rapid growth. The filmmakers have gone a step further and introduced a parasite that gets out of control. Interestingly, it is set around Chesapeake Bay which supposedly is, in real life, 40% dead from the run-off from the many chicken farms that surround the bay. This is a found footage enviro horror film which investigates the mutation of common parasites to something much more dangerous than they should be, which, once they start interacting with humans, become lethal. And a repeat watching of the film reinforced that feeling, even though I felt more disturbed by its contents than I had previously. I remembered being impressed by this film when I first watched it a number of years ago. A sleepy US bay side town is placed in mortal danger when deadly parasites take up residence in the bay.