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Aiden

UK 2024
produced by
Mumtaz Yildirimlar, Shen Kitchener (executive) for My Production Limited, My Spotlight Independent
directed by Carl Medland
starring Carl Medland, Darren Earl Williams, Ivan Alexiev, Harvey Smith, Robin Hunter, Charlie Ann Goble, Maggie Patrick
written by Carl Medland

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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For years now, Aiden (Carl Medland) has been suffering in his relationship with Ivan (Ivan Alexiev), a gorgeous looking guy who has his way with words ... who tends to fall into fits of rage when he doesn't get his way, fits of rage that have of late more and more culminated in physical violence. This has led to PTSD with Aiden, not at all helped by the fact that all his friends and famly actually love Ivan. Now Aiden has tried to leave Ivan more than once, but that's something Ivan just won't accept, and so far he has always managed to lure Aiden back into his spider's web. So Aiden makes a llast ditch effort and undergoes some experimental extreme treatment with Dr. Williams (Darren Earl Williams) - a treatment where Aiden is to be confined to a cabin in the deep countryside between sessions with no food and (suppsedly) no contact to the outside world for a whole week to get in touch with his feelings again, all the while creating a video log about his experiences. Now this is of course not ideal, as Aiden catches cabin fever in no time, and the food deprivation increases his paranoia. Also the few contacts he does make with strangers are weird to threatening - including one of the doctor's other patients (Harvey Smith) drawing a gun at him. Also, his isolation makes Aiden have more and more nightmares, including ones about Ivan physically attacking him. So the whole experience gets more and more frustrating for Aiden, to the point where he doubt's the good doctor's qualifications, but he still sticks around, for better or (more possibly) worse ...

 

Made on a (possibly very) modest budget, Aiden might be low on effects and spectacle, and yet it still pulls no stop when it comes to horror filmmaking, basically because director Carl Medland is very genre-savvy and knows how to create suspense, where to place jump scares, when to confuse the audience, and how to still keep his story easy enough to follow and also plausible. Plus, as a writer he creates characters strong enough to make the audience sympathize with but also relate to, and his small ensemble (including himself) do a good job bringing them to life. And quite besides the point, he sure manages to surprise pretty much everyone with the ending. So in all, really cool low budget genre entertainment for sure.

 

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