tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739588130392043394.post8943657665582307885..comments2024-03-02T23:44:06.835+00:00Comments on Buck Theorem's Hide-out: Lights OutBuck Theoremhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15229297104282779341noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739588130392043394.post-85260726938686675402017-06-20T21:34:50.508+01:002017-06-20T21:34:50.508+01:00Indeed. The scares are decent but both the short a...Indeed. The scares are decent but both the short and the feature both suffer from not being thought through enough so that the flaws aren't so glaring. I mean, if you have to be making allowances and excuses for a film that's barely three minutes long, that's a problem with your writing (how hard would it be to have a brief moment in the short that suggests shed doesn't believe her eyes?). I mean, all you want from a short is a good scare, not to questioning the internal logic.It's a shame because with a stronger script to bolster the scare-scenes, there would be something good here.Buck Theoremhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15229297104282779341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739588130392043394.post-24789559809964768802017-06-19T21:21:17.284+01:002017-06-19T21:21:17.284+01:00Presumably the character in the short "just g...Presumably the character in the short "just goes to bed" because she doesn't believe her eyes, but her immediate recourse to cowering under the duvet suggests that she does. Evidently the (far from ineffective) jump-scares took up too much imaginative energy for the makers to spare much thought for anything else, and no doubt it was this sense of priority that got them into features.<br /><br />Honestly, though. Two minutes and forty seconds and they <i>still</i> didn't think it through properly.Philiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18076353733931722397noreply@blogger.com