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like watching screentests/auditions , but great eerie soundtrack

posted 15 years ago by rick-220
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Interesting experiment, but in the end it felt like watching casting auditions with the off screen director feeding the lines to the acting hopefuls. In the end it didn't really work for me.

I really loved the sparse soundtrack by David Snell consisting of those very eery choral harmonies. I can't recall any movie predating this one having a similar score.

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[–] franzkabuki 12 years ago

Yeah, it´s really weird and sort of annoying how all the characters are almost always looking straight into the camera and often putting on a show for it, too.

Can´t agree with the yer evaluation of the film´s score, though - it´s highly bizarre how this soapy Christmas flick so often uses a soundtrack featuring the similar kind of crazed, worshipping church choir moaning that accompanied, for instance, the Moon monolith scenes in 2001: ASO.

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[–] ehrhart 11 years ago

I agree about the soundtrack... specifically the segment where Marlow is pursued by DeGarmot down a dusty dirt road. (Strangely, one of the very few exterior shots in the whole film)... very creepy!

I'm enjoying the justly critical remarks about the acting in this film experiment...being from Georgia, I thought Delavery's Southern accent was as bad as it gets, and we all know that's pretty god-awful bad.

I got to the point where I could watch without the first person pov being too distracting, and I considered that a viewer's victory.

[–] ago-silverman 8 years ago

The POV camera was tolerable the music was more distracting IMHO.
But fun film of its Noir genre.

in VA