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Allegoria, 2022
In a series of interconnected vignettes, different artists are haunted and attacked by their own creations.
Is it possible for a movie to disappear from your mind even as you're watching it? Yes. Yes it is.
The ideas in this film aren't bad, per se. The first sequence takes place in a theater class and builds some decent tension. But once the reveal happens, it's sort of like "Oh, okay."
And the whole things ends up being various degrees of okay. The image at the top of this review is from the first proper sequence, in which a man is haunted by an image out of one of his paintings. (A phone conversation where he belittles his girlfriend ruthlessly about her enthusiasm about getting into an acting class makes it really easy to watch him get tormented by the strange creature).
The problem is that while the ideas about what happens to each artist are (say it with me) okay, it gets a little repetitious. A writer is haunted by the characters he created. A musician plays a haunted song that results in a possession.
A danger of an anthology-style film is that you have very little time to get to know the characters. None of them were particularly memorable to me, aside from the first painter guy, and that's just because he was such a creep.
Some of the visuals here are fun (I liked the look of the creature in the image above), but I just never had a "wow" moment with this film. A neat image here, a funny line there, but it doesn't cohere. It's already fading from my mind, and I couldn't tell you the name of any of the characters without the help of the IMDb.
Not bad, per se, just really underdeveloped.
Allegoria, 2022
In a series of interconnected vignettes, different artists are haunted and attacked by their own creations.
Is it possible for a movie to disappear from your mind even as you're watching it? Yes. Yes it is.
The ideas in this film aren't bad, per se. The first sequence takes place in a theater class and builds some decent tension. But once the reveal happens, it's sort of like "Oh, okay."
And the whole things ends up being various degrees of okay. The image at the top of this review is from the first proper sequence, in which a man is haunted by an image out of one of his paintings. (A phone conversation where he belittles his girlfriend ruthlessly about her enthusiasm about getting into an acting class makes it really easy to watch him get tormented by the strange creature).
The problem is that while the ideas about what happens to each artist are (say it with me) okay, it gets a little repetitious. A writer is haunted by the characters he created. A musician plays a haunted song that results in a possession.
A danger of an anthology-style film is that you have very little time to get to know the characters. None of them were particularly memorable to me, aside from the first painter guy, and that's just because he was such a creep.
Some of the visuals here are fun (I liked the look of the creature in the image above), but I just never had a "wow" moment with this film. A neat image here, a funny line there, but it doesn't cohere. It's already fading from my mind, and I couldn't tell you the name of any of the characters without the help of the IMDb.
Not bad, per se, just really underdeveloped.