Director:
Mladen Milosavljevic
Horror
The film starts out with a documentary team
seeking a man knows from an online clip. The clip shows him beating his mother
and as their goal is to capture violence against women, it’s very interesting
for them. Soon, however, they discover something much more sinister. There’s a
local legend of an ancient demon and they ‘even soon finds out how to summon
it. This story seems to be far more interesting as they starts to follow it. But
as the old saying goes – It’s better to believe than to be convinced!
If I
hadn’t got this film sent to me I never would have heard about it. It’s not
like I investigate by turning every stone to find all Serbian Films I can. I’m
sure there are lots and lots of them out there that’ll never see the light of
day. They’re still interesting for a small amount of people but they’ll never
get as well known as Sprski Film or Life and Death of a Porno Gang. This
doesn’t mean they’re less interesting but if you don’t seek after them you’ll
never find them. The majority of easy to get film comes from the USA, that’s a
fact.
But I’m
glad I got this! It’s an interesting film in many aspects. First of all I think
they’d done very well with the found footage thing, or a mockumentary as it
really is. It seems legit even though it’s obviously not! Its fiction and
nothing else, the interviewed people seem to be very, secret at first, then concerned
about the legend and even more so about the teams desire to capture Naprata on
camera! There are very specific rules to follow if a summoning is to be made
safe. Can the team follow the instructions to the letter or not?
The
version of the film that I saw was with the dialog in original Serbian and
subtitled in English. Neither is my first language and I was confused a few
times by the subtitling grammar. It’s not a big deal but as I don’t know a word
of Serbian I’ll have to depend on the subtitles to tell me what I need to know.
There were a couple of questions there on however the translation was correct.
But on the other hand, I already forgot what it was, so I guess it wasn’t a
biggie.
I think
there’s too many found footage movies being made nowadays. It seems to be in
fashion and I think that very few of them really go all the way making them believable.
This one pass the test and it also has an interesting storyline and some
suspense as well. There’s no need to tell a supernatural story of this kind if
you can’t deliver suspense. But I think they did a fine job of that here. Believable
mockumentary, good acting, and suspense. This one is a winner!
7/10
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