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To cheer up their friend Jordan (Jordan Stopforth), who has just been
dumped by his girlfriend (Keearna Lee Westcott), brothers Dylan (Dylan
Redshaw) and Bayden (Bayden Ray Redshaw) get roaringly drunk with him, and
then they decide to make what they believe is going to be a viral video, a
video in which they try to summon the "Thin Man", a local urban
legend, and prove that he doesn't exist by his non-appearance. Well,
nothing happens during the ritual, and though that might prove just that,
that the Thin Man doesn't exist, they're a bit disappointed by the actual
lack of action on what was supposed to be a viral video. But when they
arrive back home, things do start to happen, scary stuff, there's constant
knocking on the door, weird noises, unexplainable occurences ... and then
Jordan, who actually passed out on the couch drunk only moments ago, is
gone. At first the brothers blame everything on Jordan, suspecting him to
play a prank ... but they don't even trust their own suspicions and are
scared shitless by what's going on - but finally they think they have
tracked Jordan down to the shed, but when they enter ... Bayden disappears
into thin air, in a way physically impossible. And now Dylan knows he's up
against something he cannot even begin to explain ... One might
find in The Thin Man a trace of internet-fame satire, as it shows
three guys throwing themselves into harm's way, just for the chance of
"going viral" - but actually, the movie is a piece of rather
effective found footage horror, and one that gets it right despite
probably zero budget (and I will let the filmmaker correct me on that), as
it's well-structured, makes the most out of minimal resources, suggests
the shocks rather than being overly in-your-face "scary", and
really freaks one out the longer it goes. Now admittedly some scenes could
have been shortened, especially the set-up of story and characters, and
sometimes the low budget does shine through (even if it adds authencity)
when scenes are just not lit well enough, but in all, this is one rather
creepy little shocker!
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