IrateTyrant

This movie excels in taking the weirdest ideas possible and then adding effects that further weird you out. It's an absolutely feast of ideas that come together haphazardly to create a highly entertaining viewing experience. The acting is okay, but Phil Sayer especially does a good job as the doppelganger father. The black panther was over-the-top and one of the weaker ideas in the movie. The rest is memorable sci-fi/horror goodness. Even the British accents make the experience somehow more tolerable. Good job!

This movie continues a trend of many modern horror movies, where they aren't scary, they're merely unnerving. It's like a thriller with horror aspects meddling in it. Quite frankly, it's pretty boring until the late third act when things start to ramp up during the climax. I wanted to like it. I didn't. The Australian accents are also annoying. The young lead actor is also better than Sally Hawkins who only needed to phone in an anguish-ridden performance. Grapefruit, dude, get me outta here. Plus, the animal cruelty scenes completely drew me out of it and made me hate it pretty much completely.

The Empty Man definitely stretched itself a little thin with too many influences toward its plot and subplots. But overall, it was a great movie. The first sequence, while amazing by itself, barely played into the rest of the movie at all. Then, the final sequence barely had anything to do with what we had previously watched throughout the movie. Nonetheless, it made it somehow very interesting to watch, even if it seemed somewhat superficial. I'm not much of a horror short enthusiast, but I did see the director's AM1200 when it came out and really liked it. As many good ideas that went into this movie, I'd really like to see the director's future work, a lot.