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Love, Loyalty, and Living Nightmares.
Suspecting that people are transforming into malevolent shape-shifters, Wyatt flees to New York City to seek out his estranged childhood friend Christian.
They Look Like People
2015 Directed by Perry Blackshear
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A horror movie about mental illness that’s not offensive?! Yes!
The first time I saw this it really creeped me out. It’s about a guy who thinks that people are being taken over by some unseen force...kinda like a virus I guess...and maybe he’s right and maybe he’s mentally ill and the scares are so subtle and atmosphere based that I just ate it all up then and it still holds up today. Even better than the scares is the fact that the guy has an awesome friend who’s basically like “yeah you’re probably crazy but on the off chance you aren’t we’re gonna play this like it’s all legit” and the friendship is just the kind of sweet and pure…
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I'll need some time to think this one through a bit, but it's fantastic. Deeply unsettling, and it's so resonant in the way it explores loneliness, isolation and dealing with "growing up" amidst a really disturbing combination of Take Shelter and Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
This should be getting praised to high heaven in the same way The Babadook and It Follows were over the last 2 years. They Look Like People is way, way more subtle, emotional and impressive (based off the end credits it looked like they never had more than a 2 or 3 person crew) than both of those films in my eyes.
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Celluloid Screams 2015 Film # 3
This was by far the biggest surprise of the weekend, had skipped over the film at Frightfest and I hadn't heard anything about it either good or bad so I went in with pretty low expectations but it probably ended up being my favourite film of the weekend. The debut feature from writer/director Perry Blackshear is an assured film, a New York set character piece that straddles many genres, part paranoid thriller, part mental breakdown drama with plenty of humour, some rom-com staples and obviously a large dose of horror thrown into the mix.
MacLeod Andrews stars as Wyatt, a mental unstable man who visits his old college friend Christian (Evan Dumouchel) out of… -
Terrifically acted, deeply unsettling, and even quite funny at times, They Look Like People is an assured and well-crafted horror gem that's rich with atmosphere, dread, and subtlety.
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We've seen this idea before.. is the person mentally ill or is there a real threat situation? One guy is convinced people are being infected by aliens and that a war is coming... This does some nice things with that idea and a few times is pretty unsettling, the end was really good too. Besides focusing on that theme theres a couple of things going on like a new romance, self improvement and another angle of mental wellness.. The acting, dialogue, effects and overall production were all on the weaker side in general. The story is focused on 2 guys and while they do give you some reasoning as to why the supposedly stable friend would act like he did, it really seemed a little strange at points. I did enjoy this though and it kept me interested till the end and I thought it had a good message ..
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the final scene was perfect. extremely intense and a little terrifying. this movie can be fun but also quite spooky.
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I trust you.
-ChristianFound this little gem when I went exploring deeper into the NetFlix horror section and basically ignored the "Suggestions for You". It's an indie film from first time writer/director Perry Blackshear... hell he shot it himself too.
You figure out early on that the entire film is a build up to the end, keeping you guessing just how this god damn thing is going to end. We meet Wyatt (MacLeod Andrews) and soon realize that he is either one of the only people on Earth that knows people are being taken over by evil forces or he's in dangerous need of some psychological help before it's too late.
It's well written, well acted and Blackshear does…
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A pretty good little psychological drama about schizophrenia. It does the whole 'so is that person right about [outlandish theory]?' with admirable sensitivity without straying too far into mocking territory and I think that's to be applauded.
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To be honest, I think I liked the idea of this film more than the film itself. It has some genuinely unsettling moments, and it definitely kept me guessing until the very end, but something was missing here. It would have made a great short film, or it could have benefited from being a bit more eventful. Worth checking out though, if you are into tense psychological thrillers with an indie flair.