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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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