Flowers is an independent horror film written and directed by Phil Stevens and from Borderline Cinema, Frog Militia, and P. Stevens Productions. The film is centered around these women that are waking up in the crawl space under the house of a killer, and they are navigating their way through. It doesn’t follow them all at once, and rather one at a time, with one continuing where another left off in a previous scene with cuts to each “flower” as they are called using a TV channel with static. The actresses all did a wonderful job in this film given their roles and the absence of dialogue. It couldn’t have been easy, and not a role for the squeamish. Much respect.
We absolutely loved the artistic direction this film took. The actresses didn’t speak any lines, so the entire film was depending on the score, sound effects, and visuals to paint a picture, and a bloody mess of a picture was painted, and painted well. The house itself is reminiscent of somewhere Leatherface might live or something from a SAW film. Full of death and gore, and very drab in color. The gore was plentiful but necessary, and the death was too. And there was a lot of it. Probably more than we have seen in most horror films. The house itself looked withered and decrepit, and a perfect setting. The concept itself was also not one you see every day, and it’s always refreshing to see some originality out there.
The cinematography was fantastic. Stevens also took this role on, and unlike a lot of indie films we have seen where the director’s writing and directing affect their vision, it was executed beautifully here. The film quality itself looked like some old 70’s horror in style. The drab lighting and camerawork complemented each other well, and the music and sound were also awesome and helped create a tense environment as these flowers try to navigate their way through the grimy crawl space and walls of this nightmarish situation they find themselves in.
Overall, Flowers is a great atmospheric and artistic horror film that really pushes the line of it being “surreal”. Although it definitely falls into that category, the film itself was very extreme in the imagery and gore but also was made to be very believable in nature. And that kind of horror is sometimes the most terrifying. We would definitely recommend this one to horror fans everywhere.
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Also, definitely check out Unearthed Films here to pick up a copy of Flowers for yourself. http://unearthedfilms.com/
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