Reverb (2007)

Struggling musician gets some cheap studio time over the weekend to produce a track for his big break on a compilation album, his female friend (with benefits)/co-musician starts picking up on some weird background sounds in the studio, it all leads back to some obscure late 60s druggie/occult musician who used the same studio for evil purposes back then.If that sounds like a good plot for a quickie horror movie, I very much agree! As well, both the acting and camera-work is competent for a micro- budget, straight-to-video production. But oh, watch and marvel at how they *absolutely ruin* what might have been an OK movie by inserting shrieky, screamy, pointless smash cuts (look it up) every few minutes to try to add an element of dread to a film that basically takes place in two or three tiny studio rooms. Someone sitting at the console mixing board? Well, that's boring, so let's smash cut to someone bloody and shrieking with "crazy guy" writing all over his body. Or, hell, let's just smash cut to shadowy figures lurking in the background, although that doesn't make a bit of sense in our story.In the never-ending race for which modern horror editing trick annoys me more -- found footage shaky-cam or random, shrieky smash cuts -- the latter just took the lead by a few lengths after having to sit through an hour and a half of them.

I'm giving it two because it started interesting but in the first 20 minutes i understand that i will fall asleep. The only reason that i didn't fall asleep was that the sound was really annoying. oh and that song, i don't wanna here it anymore. I think it was the stupid song ever. When you watch movie of these character you have to like the leading actors, well i was wishing the actress in the leading role to be killed from the beginning. And what was that ridiculous end. And the love scene was i don't know why it was even in the film. I don't have anymore words to express my feelings.Overral i must say it was very bad and boring don't waste your time.

I'm not usually a big fan of horror movies but i was dragged along by my braver wife of all people. This movie really scared me,I'm not familiar with Eitan Arrussi's work - although I saw Harry on the Boat and remembered it as comedy, though i feel he's more comfortable with horror. I found the plot very compelling and original I was really absorbed in the story-line. It gets really intense at times and the soundtrack was superb especially as it's a low budget movie. It reminded me of The Shining and will hopefully become the British cult equivalent. The best British movie i've seen in a long time - would have given it a 10 but i never do that.

Had to stop this at 60 minutes in when they used i Video (I'm trying to write the name of the Apple video editing software correctly, but the spell check of IMDb won't let me post this message with it correctly spelled, so sorry for the typo) or whatever it's called to turn a downloaded harmless video from 30 years ago into a completely different snuff video using an encoded song from 30 years ago. I know Apple make good software, but COME ON! And that's just one of the numerous technical mistakes they make. This whole film's plot is based on one mistake after another concerning audio production. If you know nothing about computers and music, this might turn out to be quite a fantastic thrill, otherwise it's sure to tick you off. Plus, nothing's yet happened, with 25 minutes to go. Nothing. Very stylish, completely empty.