Change Your Image
bghutton
Reviews
Salient Minus Ten (2017)
Sharp Short Sci Fi Trip
Salient Minus Ten is the latest short from Director , Writer and Producer Emma Dark. An intelligent well shot eerie Science Fiction Thriller, about a Man called Adam who is transported into a realm where he has to play a deadly game. I first saw this at a screening in London around 2018 or 19 I think, well long before we entered the twilight zone world in which we live in now. What I really like about this film is its retro feel of the story with a modern look, what i mean by retro is the 'feel' of such films as The Man Who Fell To Earth and the man driven mad plots such as we saw in The Man Who Haunted Himself ,the sense of mystery and something not being quiet right. This is an other worldly story set in modern normal locations, its also an excellent example of the show and don't tell style filmmaking which usually make the best films. No explanation no exposition needed, most sci fi films need to tell us the why's and the who instead of taking us to these worlds and letting us experience them, which this film Definitely does. Look forward in seeing more from this Director in the future.
Brian Hutton 6th June 2020