Five
By John Oak Dalton • Oct 31st, 2007 • Category: Horror, Reviews
“Twilight Zone”-flavored horror-thriller, from New Zealand director Amit Tripuraneni, features five camping friends, and the secrets that are revealed over a long weekend in a remote cabin. Five, Tripuraneni’s follow-up to the admirable, muscular spy thriller Memories of Tomorrow, plumbs a traditional genre, but with a different vibe. Tripuraneni coached naturalistic, almost improvised-seeming performances from his leads, but coupled that with energetic visuals and a crisp pace. The visuals are eye-searing and the editing leaves scenes charged with menace.
Richard Thompson returns from Memories with another memorable performance, although Andy Sophocleous also throws off sparks as a conflicted, and conflict-starting, friend.
Five follows genre conventions, but adds its own twists and turns as the storytelling doubles back on itself in an almost Rashomon fashion. I sniffed out the ending a bit too soon, but I admired Tripuraneni’s efforts to paint on a larger canvas with fresher looks at production design and performances.
- Director: Amit Tripuraneni
- Writer: Anita Crisnel, D.F. Mamea
- Cast: Richard Thompson, Anita Crisnel, Andy Sophocleous, Marjan Gorgani, Amit Tripuraneni
- Running Time: Approximately 75 minutes
- Score:****
- More Information: http://five.unkreative.com/
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John Oak Dalton is a Community Television Station Manager by day, and a DIY acolyte by night. In the 80s he made Super-8 movies and his own basement mix tapes. In the 90s he hosted a cable-access show and made his own zines and minicomics. In the 21st Century he began working with grassroots video and microcinema and writing b-movies, and has more than a dozen projects on the shelf, on screen, in development, or in production.
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