Director: Jaron Henrie-McCrea
Cast: Danni Smith, Tim Lueke
Certificate: 15
Running Time: 74 minutes
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 was definitely one of the more bizarre films to screen 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. Time to start keeping a better eye on your shower curtain.
Curtain is available to download on via Frightfest Presents from Monday 7th March.
Catch up with all our Frightfest Presents reviews here.
Kat Hughes is a UK born film critic and interviewer who has a passion for horror films. An editor for THN, Kat is also a Rotten Tomatoes Approved Critic. She has bylines with Ghouls Magazine, Arrow Video, Film Stories, Certified Forgotten and FILMHOUNDS and has had essays published in home entertainment releases by Vinegar Syndrome and Second Sight. When not writing about horror, Kat hosts micro podcast Movies with Mummy along with her five-year-old daughter.
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