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The Rizen
UK 2017
produced by Clare Pearce, Kirsty Bell (executive), Martin Myers (executive) for Lost Eye Films, Goldfinch Studios
directed by Matt Mitchell
starring Laura Swift, Patrick Knowles, Christopher Tajah, Tom Goodman-Hill, Jayson Benovichi Dicken, Simeon Willis, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Sally Phillips, Adrian Edmondson, Lee Latchford-Evans, Laurence Kennedy, Stephen Marcus, Bruce Payne, Justin Groves, Kevin Leslie, Sophie Miller, Angela Walters, Jean-Paul Oppong, Peter Meyer, Jamie Roberts (= Jamie Long), Richard Banks, Samantha White, Phelim Kelly, Pippa Winslow, Oli Regan, David Frias-Robles, Scott Hillier, Tommy Phillips, Richard Gething, Bruce Herbelin-Earle, Michael Kennedy, Jack Walter, Lucy Camacho, Louis Findlay, Stephen Fuller, Lauren Clare, Will Pennington, Joseph Banks, Stuart Cohen, Kirk Collens, Chris Snipp, Eleni Mylona, Michal Szpunt, Tom Green, Chris Hallaways, Karen Gorbutt, Harry Maher, Aidan Berry, Kevin Johns, Max Moralis, Gary Fuchs, David Kiefer, James McInnes, Martin Ellis, Philip Brown, Paolo Mortoni, Ashley Goh, Roger Smith, Alex Fuller, Dawn Walker, Matt Devincenzi, Jack Allen, John Barlow, Tony Mardon, Rebecca Seaman, Matt Thompson, Simon Grujich, Dan Eycott, Martial Durou
written by Matt Mitchell, music by Adam Price, special effects and special makeup effects by Jess Heath
Rizen
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Frances (Laura Swift), Briggs (Patrick Knowles) and Baughman
(Christopher Tajah) find themselves in a mazelike system of corridors with
no recollection how they got there, how to get out, where they are or who
they are even. All they do know is they're in danger as there are a bunch
of bandaged men roaming the corridors who have a predilection of killing
and eating those they stumble upon. Now the good thing is that these
bandaged men are at least blind, which gives our trio a bit of an
advantage, but what they lack in sight, they make up in numbers, so
running into a bunch of them is never a good idea. Eventually our heroes
manage to kill one of the bandaged men - and find him to be not of earth
at all but either hell or outer space. In one of his pockets, Baughman
finds a notebook that might hint at the origin of these creatures, and him
being of a scientific mind, he starts to decypher it, and what he comes up
with triggers memories of all three, that they were members of an occult
experiment to create an all-powerful weapon. But apparently, that
experiment went awry and has opened a portal to Hell - or worse ...
So ok, the finale of The Rizen might be a bit too
esoteric for everything that went on before, but in all, this is a pretty
cool piece of horror cinema, one that especially in the beginning is
enjoyably absurd, and as it goes on successfully marries the Kafka-esque
to the Lovecraft-ean without missing a beat. And a dynamic directorial
effort really gets the most out of rather limited and really not all that
exciting sets and uses them to the film's advantage, to create the proper
labyrinthine feel so important for the story to evolve. So in all, this is
a pretty cool genre movie for sure.
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