This movie is heavily Polanski-esque with a little bit of Hitchcock and Lynch as well, but I think it's a great effort. The acting especially was excellent. Lauren Ashley Carter had to hold down the film with very little to play off of, and she did an exceptional job, in my opinion. She was totally believable and creepy and crazy and all the things we wanted her to be in this role.
Darling reminded me especially of Polanski's Repulsion with the same kind of walls-coming-alive stuff. The themes of Darling also are similar to Repulsion., which might be why some ... ahem ... other (read: male) reviewers struggled with this movie.
This is definitely a thinking person's type of horror movie, where all the answers are not going to be presented on a silver platter, but the information/clues are all there if you're paying attention.
Some things are overdone; for instance, there are just a few too many sped-up shots of "Darling" staring, catatonic, down the hall. But the movie as a whole is short and sweet and keeps you engaged.
Darling reminded me especially of Polanski's Repulsion with the same kind of walls-coming-alive stuff. The themes of Darling also are similar to Repulsion., which might be why some ... ahem ... other (read: male) reviewers struggled with this movie.
This is definitely a thinking person's type of horror movie, where all the answers are not going to be presented on a silver platter, but the information/clues are all there if you're paying attention.
Some things are overdone; for instance, there are just a few too many sped-up shots of "Darling" staring, catatonic, down the hall. But the movie as a whole is short and sweet and keeps you engaged.