Wednesday, October 9, 2019

31 Nights of Halloween: Bad Mistake

They say French films are tres magnifique... because they're French films. If they're talking about tonight's excursion into horror, they're right. It may not break any new ground, but it's well acted, well-executed on every technical level, and it doesn't waste a single second of screen time on ineffective "tension building" (which is an all-too-common mistake I find in these short films).




Bad Mistake (aka "Mauvaise Erreur") (2009)
Starring: Anne-Gaelle Ponche, Caroline Previnaire, Laurent Denayer, and Philippe d'Avilla
Director: Xavier Hibon
Rating: Seven of Ten Stars

The weekly "scary movie night" with friends gets a little too real for Sophie (Ponche) on her walk home...


(Before anyone writes me: I KNOW this is a film made by Belgians, not Frenchmen. But I rarely get to mock film snobs, so I had to take this opportunity, no matter how weakly motivated it was.)
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2 comments:

  1. Caffeinated JoeOctober 10, 2019 at 5:32 PM

    Definitely well done, even if I kind of knew the twist before it was revealed.

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  2. Steve MillerOctober 10, 2019 at 6:30 PM

    Yeah, there really isn't anything groundbreaking in this one, but I liked it because it was well-executed. (BTW... thanks for visiting, watching, and commenting!)

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