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Mysti (Peri Jill Phillips) has been acting strange for ages now, but
it's only when her sister Areilla (Liz Nolan) pays her a long planned
visit that Mysti has totally forgotten about that Areilla begins to
comprehend how bad the situation is - she has lost her job, sold the
furniture of their late parents' house, and of late refuses to leave the
house. Thing is, of late Mysti has been using again, and not just any drug
but a potion that drags her into a parallel world ... a parallel world
that's real, where one can occasionally even pull stuff from - mostly
creepy stuff though - like a perverted doll of Mysti and Areilla's mother
that Mysti finds cradling her one day she wakes up. And mum actually died
from the drug - well, of course it was rationalized for the
"real" world, but Areilla and Mysti both know the reason for her
death can be found in that parallel world. At first, Mysti's
transgressions into the "other" world were still controllable
and only caused by consumption of above potion, but of late it has become
chronic, she changes between worlds in her nightmares (which are real of
course) more and more freely and randomly. Areilla knows it's time to
perform a ritual to close the door between dimensions her sister has
opened - but that's a dangerous enterprise in itself ... Strange
World: The Haunting of Mysti Delane is a rather effective little gem:
Made on a modest budget and with a very limited cast on a handful of
locations, the film nevertheless works extremely well within the goals it
tries to achieve, bringing a very creepy and otherworldly story to life -
this all works thanks to a script that doesn't try to explain everything
away, instead hints at things to make them creepy, a directorial effort
that puts atmosphere over spectacle, and of course a twosome of actresses
who put in great performances and work well off one another. It's probably
not a film to everybody's taste, due to its deliberately (yet effective)
relaxed pacing and its refusal to rely on genre mainstays, but if you're
open to accept genre movies beyond the cookiecutter approach to things,
then this film's definitely for you.
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