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It’s plain that there’s an excellent film someplace contained in the idea for Twisted. There simply must be. Not solely the synopsis should sound good. The concept is there. Unfortunately dormant and stored in a secondary airplane, sacrificed for a imaginative and prescient that isn’t as efficient as I might have hoped. Sometimes as a director it’s good to belief a movie’s natural side, one which works finely in horror.
In Twisted, mom and daughter have a relationship that’s past poisonous. Mom is all the time asking her what she’s doing, overprotecting her, and he or she even submits her daughter to a month-to-month checkup to see if she’s… pregnant? In any case, that’s not all. Strange massages are a part of a routine that Hannah begins considering as being extreme. Things take a darkish and sudden flip when a good friend of hers dies, and Hannah will get a bit paranoid. It doesn’t assist that her mother makes her really feel responsible no matter’s happening.
The movie’s cinematography exhibits indicators of a promising expertise behind the digital camera, and visuals are unsettling sufficient to make you look generally. The efficiency by Madeleine Masson is nice sufficient to make you are feeling for her, and Karen Leigh Sharp because the mom could be very disturbing. That position merely can’t be straightforward to carry out in trendy occasions. There’s a really tremendous line between the ridiculous and the upsetting, and the actress does a great job at dominating the movie in her personal scenes.
Unfortunately each actresses are trapped in a script that goes nowhere with its inconsistent story and the pointless addition of secondary plotlines that the idea of the story has nothing to do with. We know mother is sick, and Hannah is properly… a part of a scheme she will’t management. But the event of the story feels uncontrolled as necessary occasions appear so as to add extra to the spectacle, and to not the story itself. Was it vital to show her in opposition to her friends?
Perhaps speaking about “necessary” is pointless. Films ought to comply with their course as their writers wrote them and never rather more. Our contributions are pointless regarding the story. However, scripts ought to all the time make sense and comply with a goal that’s finely thread contemplating the style and story. In Twisted, we’re watching an try at undertaking many issues with an absence of management that’s far too noticeable.
Take that ending for instance: all the things’s “completed” in a few minutes with out even a discover for an arc that was alleged to be resolved so the viewers can go for a extra logical construction at coping with the story. The finish in Twisted will make you frown, marvel if there’s extra, and go for the subsequent thriller.
I insist: Masson and Leigh Sharp are trapped. They must be in a greater movie than this one.
Founder of Screentology. Member of the OFCS. RT Certified Critic
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