Letterboxd review 🟠🟢🔵
Obviously very low budget and
very odd but surprisingly works
very well in this post covid,
economy over everything world.
Some good laughs albeit an
inconsistent schlocky. The
landlady is the star of the show. https://t.co/Y1NroJJFQi
Despite the seeming WTF nature of "Friend of the World", there is order and sense, even if the structure, the narrative within, and the execution feel wildly unorthodox.
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"Anyone that has ever braved a film-set will be twisting in their seats during moments of 'Everybody Dies by the End'." –@GizmoShikari#100HorrorMoviesIn92Days
It’s also hard not to be struck by how resonant the idea of people so eager to manipulate others who felt vulnerable due to world events felt.
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A mere 50-minute bolt across the arm, the film plays something like "10 Cloverfield Lane" directed by David Lynch. [...] This is how you take on a genre that has been done to death. –@MagazineTILT
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A landlord uses a bizarre crisis to tighten her grip on her tenants. As paranoia spreads, their behavior gets increasingly erratic and grotesque, turning the place into a darkly comic pressure cooker of control, discomfort, and escalating absurdity.
#TubiTuesday#TerrorOnTubi
"I highly recommend checking out the writer-director Ian Tripp’s gloriously demented low-fi horror comedy about a sad sack incel named Saul."
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"A hat tip once more to Butler for imbuing 'Hemet' with a f***ed-up fairytale vibe that utilizes the Salties as both containment for the characters and a metaphorical forest to be navigated, while slowly presenting Liz as Granny and Rosie as Little Red" –EoM
"'Friend of the World' feels more like an abstract sci-fi film with heavy elements of surrealism woven in. The film uses dark comedy and absurdism to break up the moments of tension, but to me it only adds to the discomfort and intense tone of the film." –@WithoutYourHead
"'Friend of the World' is an odd, interesting little movie that defies easy categorization from the perspective of both genre — combining horror, sci-fi, heady drama and even brief comedy — and length — clocking in at a short-film-with-feature-aspirations 50 minutes." –@blacula
Well, Hemet brings the bath salts epidemic to California where a group of misfits living in a low-income housing complex are forced to confront not only the new walking dead, but their detestable landlady, Liz. –@UHMtweet
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