The Source of Shadows

We start with a horrible rip-off of Bird cage that has nothing worth watching in it and then we start going downhill fast. Most of these shorts don't have any idea and don't make any sense, they are acted very badly and have no horror elements in them. At some point we get another "heavily inspired" by Bird cage short that is so bad that it's sad. Finally we get to a cartoon(!) obviously drawn by a child that can't draw for some demented reason and that is where I stopped watching this medley of feces.

Avoid at all costs, I can not fathom what was Amazon thinking for taking this failed turd in their video service - are you trying to insult your viewers??

I think the people who made this film saw an episode of Black Mirror and thought they can make something similar.

2/10, the first bit was a little bit interesting but then it was just so bad I had to turn it off.

This is like someone put together shorts from Alter or Omeleto, it's pretty good! Antologies are always very hit or miss but all the ones in Source of Shadows were hit for me. Except the second segment which was way too short and supposed to be comedy but it was just stupid. All the rest however, I enjoyed very much- some beatifully shot, some with very good acting, some with interesting and original ideas. I want to go in detail for each one but I want to avoid making spoilers. If you like stuff like Demon(2017) or Field Guide to Evil, Source of Shadows is somewhere in between and I could recommend it.

Horror is my #1 favorite, and anthology films are among my favorite of the genre. Its nice to break away from feature length plots now and then and instead watch a bunch of short ones all packed into roughly the same time frame. All of these shorts are shot nicely, too. The only thing I can say is some are a little hard to follow. One review on here was saying how this anthology film is like way heavy handed on an LGBT theme, and I have to question if they accidently reviewed the wrong film because I failed to see that, like literally at all... So if for some reason you are reluctant becuase of that, don't let it mislead you. Anyway though, at the end of the day, this is worth a watch if you're into the horror anthologies!

This anthology is a celebration of short film makers. It's well curated. Has some thrills. Worth watching.