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Moth
Hungary / UK / USA 2016
produced by Gergö Elekes, József Gallai, Jay Sorensen, Chuck Harding, John Lepper, Roy McClurg jr, for Elekes Pictures, The Blood Shed, Rovar Pictures
directed by Gergö Elekes, József Gallai
starring Lídia Szabó, József Gallai, Rob Oldfield, Bálint Egri, Kata Tábori, Dániel Szabó, Bálint Hernádi, Zoltán Kocsis
written by József Gallai, music by Gergö Elekes, special makeup effects by Hanna Erkel
Mothman
review by Mike Haberfelner
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To investigate the origins of the Mothman, ambitious
professor/actress Thora (Lídia Szabó) and one of her students, Adam
(József Gallai) travel from London to somewhere in the middle of nowhere,
Hungary, to ... well, first of all they get lost on an overland road in
the middle of the woods, they start to hear weird noises, they find a
bunch of freshly abandoned cars, the state of their owners being first and
foremost mysterious, then they drive into a dead end where there should be
open road instead, they somehow lose their car and have to camp in the
woods for a few days ... and then they find a makeshift graveyard that
suggests people were buried there only very recently, and investigating
further they find a pile of clothes piling up on a severed hand - and now
they really know they ought to be on the run. Eventually, they find a
house they can lock themselves into, but with the Mothman being
very probably a superhuman being, what good are locks and bolts? Filmed
almost entirely in found footage first person style, you are of course
treated to a lot of clichés that come with the genre, from shaky
camerawork to lo-fi scares to real-time build-up of tension, and while Moth
might take its time to kick into gear at first, once it gets to the really
scary parts, it indeed manages to shock and use the limitations that come
with its approach to its full advantage ... and to call the ending (which
I won't give away, sorry) anything other than truly inspired would be a
big lie. Totally worth a watch, even if you're not too big a fan of
found footage movies!
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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