This Thursday, May 30, Gunpowder & Sky’s new horror brand ALTER, will be releasing Paul Taylor’s BAFTA-nominatedsci-fi thriller, The Blue Door, starring Gemma Whelan (“Game of Thrones”, “The End of the F***ing World”).
ALTER, offered me the chance to review and cover the award-winning film, THE BLUE DOOR ahead of its premiere!
But before I get into the details. Check out this teaser trailer-
The Blue Door follows a district nurse (Whelan) after she is assigned a new patient living alone in a dilapidated bungalow. The nurse soon discovers that her dying patient, and the home she inhabits, are hiding a dark secret….
You won’t want to miss GoT’s Yara Greyjoy in this positively skin-crawling flick!
Expect the unexpected
When you’ve got 10 minutes to tell a horror story, you think it would be a marathon of jump scares and action.
Ben Clark and Meghan Pugh’s ‘The Blue Door’ does the opposite. It’s stripped to the bone. Beautifully shot. Totally silent, and builds tension throughout until you pant because you forget to breathe!
It’s the scariest film I’ve seen in years!
When I say no dialogue, I mean zero. It’s effect is nerve wracking. The only thing that remotely comes close to building this much tension and sense of impending doom was “A Quiet Place” which this will inevitably be compared to.
The only thing these very different films share is the deft hand of storytellers who know the art of what makes a good chiller. Like John Carpenter at his best, the filmmakers provide the broad strokes of scene, tone & atmospherics and allow the audience to fill in the blanks. The things they dread most.
Until all is revealed.
As we shadow her through her mundane routines, it slowly becomes apparent all is not what it seems.
It’s such a brilliantly shot and creatively staged set that sucks you in immediately and trades splatter and gore for suspense and dramatic tension that will rivet you to your seat!
I hope to speak with filmmakers about this remarkable achievement I’ll be sharing with you soon!
This is MUST see for horror fans!
all art- ALTER