If a horror film’s entire basis for inspiring fear rests on moments of disturbing imagery, then how the director chooses to reveal it and film it ultimately makes all the difference. Of course, you could have the best horror director in the business and nothing will happen if that imagery isn’t all that scary to begin with. Director Antoine Thomas’s Hidden has both problems: its imagery is predictable “scary children” fare and it’s never filmed in such a way so as to make it terrifying in the slightest. Though its premise certainly shows ambition on the writer’s part, Hidden devolves into a clichéd and uninspired experiment-gone-wrong story that ended in such a disastrous final product that even the writers ended up disowning the film (hence the credit to Alan Smithy and Alana Smithy).
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- 4/12/2012
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
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