The Crescent

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Diana S Visually artful, even a little bit trippy. The story and theme, about the shock of tragedy and treading water in limbo, staring down the proverbial abyss, all fantastic. Even just stylistically, much more sophisticated than you might expect given the obviously lower budget. I did feel that it was too long and needed to be more tightly edited. It easily could have been 75 minutes. Cut the superfluous villain entirely. Just focus on the boy and his mom. It would have been quite perfect. Even so, it's a special little film. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 08/13/24 Full Review Kathryn V I feel sure that someone involved in this film has had a near death experience. I have and this film had one of the only scenes depicting that that has ever felt true to my experience Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/12/24 Full Review Audience Member Now this is a different kind of indie low budget horror, and I'm definitely getting onboard. It's an extremely slowburn, which I'm not necessarily a fan of, unless you can pull it off like The Crescent does. During the 1st act they set up some eerie themes, but in the 2nd act there are legitimately scary scenes (2-3) that really scared me and had goosebumps/shivers running throughout my body. It felt very different from a "normal" horror movie and may be that's why it got to me so much - bc it's so unique, and especially bc it has a great score and sound effects that really heighten the tension. The 3rd act had me confused at times and the payoff wasn't as good as the build up, but that's saying more about the great buildup than a bad ending. SPOILER: imo she finally gave in to the ghosts and agreed to take her baby as well as herself into the ocean so they could crossover into the ghost world and be with the husband/father. At the end, one scene was about the past and how they got those photographs, and the scene after that showed them in the ghost world, and in the end it was the father and Lowen disappearing into the dark (the ghost world). May be I totally missed the point, but that's how I saw it. It got confusing at times bc you're not sure what's in her head and what's real. Regardless I'm a big fan of this movie bc of how it managed to scare me and the tension for most of the movie (ie the scenes where it seems like Lowen is in a bad situation). FYI there are no jump scares and I'm not sure what the different screen sizes represented so if you figured that out pls reply and let me know. It's very hard to find any discussion re what the film means. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/15/23 Full Review Kevin M Beautiful, Surreal and Terrifying. Saw at least one film every day for two weeks at Vancouver International Film Festival 2017 and this was my favourite. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/14/18 Full Review Audience Member the worst movie ever. too avant garde to be a horror movie. too...shot-on-an-iphone to be an art house movie. ABSOLUTE WASTE OF TIME NONSENSE. I WANT TWO HOURS BACK AND I ALSO WANT TO KILL MYSELF NOW Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 08/11/18 Full Review Audience Member I have so many questions for the director of this film. The pacing is slow and almost lulls you to sleep. The only thing that me partially alert was the main characters parenting skills or lack thereof. To watch this film is an exercise in great patience. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 08/05/18 Full Review Read all reviews

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