Curtain review
Director: Jaron Henrie-McCrea
Cast: Danni Smith, Tim Lueke
Certificate: 15
Running Time: 74 minutes
Synopsis: A burnt-out nurse moves into a new apartment and discovers her bathroom houses a secret portal with a taste for shower curtains.
Moving into a new house can be tough, but just think how much worse it would be if you’d unknowingly taken ownership of a portal to another world. That’s just the situation that our heroine Danni finds herself in.
Of course at first she doesn’t realise that is what’s going on, but after several of her shower curtains go missing (who knew they came in that many colours) she decides to film the bathroom and that’s when the discovery is made. Danni then recruits the help of her co-worker Tim as she tries to unravel the new mystery.
During her investigation she crosses paths with some rather unsavoury characters who for some reason have a working class human cenobite feel to them. It it now that things get really weird…
With echoes of House, Ghostbusters and Beetlejuice, Curtain is a kooky and slightly schizophrenic affair. A film that requires your full attention it regularly skirts the line between old-school Eighties ‘out there’ horror and comedy. This constant switching from tone unnerves the viewer as they can’t quite work out if they should laugh or scream. Go in expecting the unexpected and you’ll find Curtain to be an inventive and inspired story.
Curtain is definitely one of the stranger films screening at this year’s Film 4 Frightfest. It seeks to answer the question – where do all the socks go (well in a twisted roundabout way it does)? It is a quirky, strange mystery movie that will have you scratching your head long after the credits role.
Curtain review, Kat Hughes, August 2015.
Curtain screens as part of the Frightfest programme on Monday 31st August.
