The Thin Man

I got to 7 mins 46 seconds. I couldn't take the animal cruelty, kicking that poor toad and the horrible sound it made in pain, and lying there on its back. It looks real, and nothing in the wee bit of end credits states no amimals were harmed. This is acceptable in Australia? It's sick. The redshaws are vile.

Creepy movie from some promising young filmmakers. The ending, as I recall, was pretty disappointing, but up until then it was surprisingly scary. Definitely not just another ultra-low-budget found footage movie. The Redshaw brothers know how to build tension and instill a sense of dread, and I look forward to seeing more movies from them in the future.

I'd really like to watch it again so I could write a more detailed review, but it doesn't seem to be available on Amazon or Netflix. I saw it on demand back when I had cable, and haven't been able to find it anywhere since.

This had so much going for it, until the third act. The introduction of a character that required as strong a performance as the three primaries was almost its undoing - Alistair cannot act. That aside, it's a creepy film that will get under your skin and shows great promise for the film makers responsible.

The Thin Man film had a very very shaky history with it's release, the director (MYSELF) Signed with Parade Deck FIlms (WHO I"LL NEVER DEAL WITH AGAIN) as they stole my film and illegally uploaded it to Amazon Prime Video, he had cut the film down a lot as it originally was 1 hr and 45 mins long, and before that there was even a 2 hour version, but most people liked the 1 hour 45 minute version, it definitely did not include the toad scene as we knew that was too controversial and people would look into it too much. fact is a lot of things went wrong, I wish they were handled better personally but that's what happens in the indie film biz, too much corruption! from now on I'll only be working with myself independently and never sign a distro deal again! the 1 hour 45 minute version is on YouTube for free, but I plan to release it on Amazon Prime at some point on it's own so I can redeem it from the stain that Parade Deck left on it.

25-30 minutes of watching guys get drunk does not make for quality entertainment. Also, everyone drops the occasional F bomb, but I swear (pun intended), if you took the F word out of this film, there would only be about 10 minutes of dialogue.

I don't mind overused plots. There is nothing new under the sun, but at least do it well. PA proved you don't have to have a huge budget to make a great film. Try using a thesaurus and come up with some real dialogue next time.