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Alex and Maddy
are stuck at a dead end job and want
nothing more than to work with music. They borrow a
recording studio over a night to try to come up with
some new stuff, but when they find a voice hidden in
a song, things take a turn for the worse.
I've always loved the idea of a horrific message hidden
inside a song but the concept has never been fully
utilized - until now. Reverb is a very abstract horror
flick from the UK that tries to weave an entire movie
around this concept, but I guess a voice hidden inside
a record just isn't enough to make an entire movie
about. The plot just isn't intriguing enough and the
fact that the movie tries to be too dark for its own
good didn't help either.
Alex is a musician stuck at a dead end job together
with his friend, Maddy. They decide to borrow a
recording studio for a couple of nights to try to
come up with the next hit. But it doesn't take long
before creepy things start to occur in the pitch
black recording studio as they find a creepy voice
hidden inside their song. Maddy decides to investigate
further into the matter, only to realize that the
creepy voice saying "Help me" is in fact her own...
Things just don't get creepier than that.
The story itself is actually pretty decent and even
though it's a bit too thin, I don't think that the
plot was the main issue with Reverb. The thing that
bothered me the most was how the director threw a
bunch of flashy scenes in every here and there that
served no purpose other than to annoy and disorient
the viewer. There were times when you had no idea of
what was going on since the flashy scenes had a
tendency of overpowering the movie itself.
Rookie director Eitan Arrusi also makes the mistake of
making the movie too dark. And as I said before,
I don't think that horror movies should be that gloomy,
they should entertain, not depress. All of this is
really a shame as there was a lot of potential to be
found in this movie. But it's not all bad though.
The acting is top-notch and the characters are all
very likeable. There are also a couple of very
intriguing and suspenseful scenes to be found in here
and Maddy's investigation is by far the most interesting
thing about this movie. She finds out all kinds of
terrifying things about the recording and had they
only made this a bit more (and I can't believe I'm
actually saying this) mainstream, I'm sure it could
have been a very successful and entertaining movie.
However, Reverb is just too artsy and dark for my taste.
It has the potential to be a truly terrifying horror
movie but due to all the flashy scenes, the atmosphere
is completely lost. Due to its good concept though,
it's definitely watchable and surprisingly memorable,
but it should have been so much better. Hopefully
someone else will make a rip-off of this movie and
make it the way that it should have been.
A slit throat and a lot of blood.
The gloomy grunge music was very good and I wish that
we would have been able to hear the entire song.
A great and original concept gone to waste more or
less due to bad editing and questionable directing.
The movie is way too dark and the flashy scenes are
overpowering and disorienting. It's got a lot of
potential but I wish that it had actually lived up
to its potential rather than fall as flat as it did.
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