The writing is smart and tense, keeping you drawn into what exactly this couple is experiencing around the pond.īerger and Woertendyke’s performances are grating, particularly at the film’s beginning, as they argue and make themselves one of those unbearable couples that you almost want to die. While the relationship between Jen and Dan does fall into cliche and is perhaps the weakest part of Brightwood, Elcar subverts expectations of what happens with troubled married couples in any genre film. Also Read: ‘Black Mold’ Review: An Urban Exploring Nightmare Įven without that budget, Elcar’s script works to eschew typical time loop and time paradox horror films as he introduces more and more violence. Elcar does mostly strike that balance but does briefly fall into those repetitive pitfalls of the subgenre. Balancing repetition in a time loop film is difficult because, well, it’s inherently about repetition. There are whispers of it earlier, but perhaps with a larger budget a gorier film could have been achieved. The end of the film gets downright disgusting and I wish Elcar had done that for more of the film. The longer they spend in this loop, the more they realize the nature of their situation and how far they’ll go to survive.Īt 84 minutes, it’s already lean but would benefit from an even tighter script or perhaps more gore. But soon they start to see people in hoodies whose erratic behavior spans from silently standing in the woods to attacking them with makeshift weapons. No matter how many times they run or how carefully they look, they’re stuck in a repetitive time loop. They keep running around the pond, but never find the exit trail. Also Read: ‘You’re Killing Me’ Review: A Fast-Paced Slasher With A Mean TwistĪs they make it to a trail around a pond, they quickly realize something’s wrong.
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