Closed
Circuit: Extreme
(2012/Jinga Films/MVD Visual DVD)
Picture:
C Sound: C Extras: D Film: D
Giorgio
Amato's Closed
Circuit: Extreme
is a boring found footage movie centering around a young couple who
break into the house of a suspected serial killer and plant hidden
cameras - which low and behold his grisly actions. When they break
back in to get the evidence, low and behold they get trapped. Unlike
some other found footage movies, the boring nature of watching a
security camera does avoid the nausea-inducing shaky cam like The
Blair Witch Project
and the recent As
Above So Below.
To
help sell the realism, the filmmakers eyeball-jarring CCTV glitches
and piercing electronic vwip noises accompanying every single
crosscut. As a way to shoot a film it places interesting demands on
the actors, as the camera can't track them when they move; everything
has to happen in the viewing arc of one of the cameras, but at the
same time the cast have to appear unaware that they're being
observed.
As
far as acting goes Stefano Fregni as the killer David De Santis isn't
completely terrible but this filmmaking experiment isn't necessarily
fun to watch or worth recommending but more or less beats you over
the head with this fact that you are actually watching these vicious
murders take place when in reality the film Is comprised of actors
working on a shoestring budget with some Kao syrup.
Sound
and Picture on the disc aren't too fantastic, nor are they meant to
be. Presented in standard def on DVD with a lossy Dolby Digital 2.0
track - the film does not
need a Blu-ray update.
No
extras are on the disc.
Unless
you are in love with torture films or really enjoy watching security
camera footage, I feel that this is a film that you can safely skip.
-
James Harland Lockhart V
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