Fever Dreams

Well written short horror stories tied together by a rather bizarre narrator - the moody kind of tales that mess with your mind rather than just gory and in-your-face standard fare. An easy watch with some unexpected plot twists, good acting and memorable characters. The kind of stories that you feel could almost happen in everyday situations, if things just went a little off-kilter. Familiar types of people we've all meet in real life, who end up in unexplainable and dire turns of events. I liked that we are left wondering "what happened next?" and guessing that it definitely wasn't anything good! Fever Dreams is well worth watching.

You won't want to leave your seat once you start watching this film. Have all your goodies with you so you don't have to leave your search. This is a very entertaining and attention grabbing movie. Enjoy it and perhaps you will want to submit your own review when you have finished it. Also, this is a film that you will want to watch again in the near future. The acting is rather good and they will keep your interest up and want to see more. This could be one of those movies that would have a second installment that will continue to keep your attention for a second time. One can only hope so in the future.

What we have here is a collection of 4, short,"creepy" stories (if you'd have been sitting in front of me when I said creepy you'd have seen me using air quotes). The premise of each story is sound but the execution is awful.

The opener has our protagonist going off his mind in record time, which gives the story a rushed feel. The second story has you asking, "why?". It's nonsense from start to finish. Between each story we meet, "the bum". His task is to enigmatically introduce each tale, Rod Sterling like. It misses the mark.

Moving on to act three, pretty soon the story has one wondering how the central character is under the impression that his chosen subject for a documentary is going to make him rich. We've got an overbearing mother, a cliche bad boss and a potential love interest thrown in. Only the relationship with the mother is explored, as for the others? They needn't have bothered.

And so we arrive at the final story. Again we have the bad boss but at least there is a some back story to this one. We meet a new start at a firm who is shoe-horned in to get to the denoument in an attempt to make it make sense. It doesn't work.

You'll get a few laughs along the way but they'll be unintentional and mostly come from the chronically bad acting along with some badly directed scenes.

I'd give this 1 star, but it's clearly an indie effort and that's always worth an extra star no matter how bad.... and this is bad.

This horror anthology brings some creepiness with a nice side of the Twilight Zone. A good addition to the pantheon of horror anthologies. More my kinda thing as it has supernatural and ghostly elements. I'm not into the overtly gross/violent/torture porn stuff, so this enabled me to feel creeped out without jump starting a vomit.

Also, it's nice to support and give props to independent film making. Big studios be darned!

Kick back, turn the lights off, maybe indulge in an adult beverage or three, and ride along with fever dreams.

By the way, keep that creepy kid with the camera away from me.

Four tales of suspense and tragedy. The outline of the plot seems obvious, but there is a curveball arcing in for each.

Personally, I watched each of these stories on a different day so that I could digest them fully. A rare treat.

The production qualities are obviously spare in places, but the team makes good use of what they have. The scenes with the police are especially well shot and portrayed.

The first story should have a trigger warning for mental health. The material surrounding self doubt and hallucination is disturbing, as it should be.

The set piece of glass for the second story was effective. It was also macabre. Brace for that.

The third tale was... difficult to watch. Trigger warning for elder abuse, though Karma comes round eventually.

The fourth tale snaps into place abruptly. An unsatisfying ending, but that's the modern mortgage market for you.

If you've got an hour and you want something new, give it a try.