Discarnate

2018

Action / Horror / Thriller

17
IMDb Rating 4.3/10 10 1614 1.6K

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Plot summary

A neuroscientist's obsession with a drug that expands the human mind inadvertently unleashes a deadly supernatural force on his team.


Uploaded by: FREEMAN
February 15, 2019 at 12:12 PM

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Nadine Velazquez as Maya Sanchez
Bex Taylor-Klaus as Violette Paich
Chris Coy as Travis Sherman
Josh Stewart as Casey Blackburn
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1 hr 24 min
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1 hr 24 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by silvio-mitsubishi 7 / 10

Fails, But For All The Right Reasons

There is an outstanding idea at the heart of this film, and somebody gave it considerable thought. The creature itself is well realised and makes more sense than most, although the human characters less so. Supposed scientists undertake an experiment in the least appropriate place possible, with far too many variables - human and rat subjects simultaneously, inconsistent dosage, possible magnetic forces giving false results.

The characters themselves are stereotypes: the head scientist with a tragic past; the hipster female assistant with flawed beliefs (Norse mythology as from an 'isolated culture', when Norse travellers had found Canada half a millennium before anyone else, so knew more of the planet than anybody else); the beautiful but otherworldly spiritualist; the chalk and cheese brothers. I only knew three of the actors. Two were in Hostel 3, the other I recognised but had to look him up - he was the guy from The Collector / Collection.

The story is largely told through dream logic, a mixture of reality and fantasy. There are distorted perspectives, warped timescales, paranoia, shadows and light. The director of photography deserves a paragraph of their own, so here goes.

The camerawork is outstanding for a film with this budget. Terrific use of backlighting to place characters in silhouette, a superb use of colour in various scenes, and believable nighttime activity. Many scenes are almost monochrome but far from black and white. I vividly recall a scene all in brown but for the blue shirt of a character, another vista in a blue wash but for the blood on a victims face. I watched the film at night and was impressed at how much I could see in the darker episodes, but even rewatching by day with the curtains open it was clear the lighting picked out everything relevant but added deep shadows to blur the irrelevant backgrounds and create menace. I have not researched it but I imagine the cinematographer grew up in music videos or making commercials. In one scene close to the end, backlighting makes a male character seem perhaps more excited than he should be, but overall the lighting and camerawork is outstanding, far better than the film deserves.

The makers credit the viewer with intelligence. Hitchcock' definition of suspense was when the audience knows things they desperately want the characters to realise, and this is brave enough to show us the history of the house from the opening scene, although the researchers do not find out until very late. Echoes of The Thing when everyone knows they are dealing with a creature that can appear as one of them; the paranoia is palpable.

The flaws are in the lack of a coherent plot. One brother looks for another, questioning why he would go into a greenhouse when there is absolutely nothing to indicate he has. The other brother then looks for the first brother in the same outbuilding. The ridiculous lack of science shown by scientists is an almost insurmountable disappointment but don't let that put you off. There is so much to praise about this film, right up to the credits rolling, that it would be a shame to dismiss it. Done right, this could easily have been an all-time great.

Reviewed by nogodnomasters 6 / 10

You shouldn't be here

May have spoilers.

Dr. Mason (Thomas Kretschmann) loses his son Benny (Jake Vaughn) to a monster only Benny can see. 10 years later he contacts Maya Sanchez (Nadine Velazquez) who gives him her grandmother's tea which allows a person to "open the door" and go to the other side. He convinces her to sell him the tea so they can extract the substance and create a serum for an experiment. Maya agrees, only if she can be a part of it.

The field test ends up at Dr. Mason's old home, something he doesn't reveal to the group. They all shoot up and...

The reason for the experiment was to confirm the existence of an afterlife, however, it moves off on a Nokken tangent as the two worlds co-exist.

Scares, thrills, and acting are on par for a "B" film. Thank you for not making this a found footage.

Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.

Reviewed by TheLittleSongbird 4 / 10

Fleshless soul hunting

Did like the concept a fair bit, even if it was a familiar one and has been very variably. The title 'Discarnate' (if the title was indeed 'Shapeshifter', as generic it may sound, it would have been a much better title and would have given a much better indication of what to expect) was a head-scratcher and personally wasn't sure what to make of the trailer, which indicated a quite well done monster but also very familiar ground and not being particularly scary.

So wasn't expecting very much really from 'Discarnate' but watched it anyway when it appeared as oddly enough an IMDb recommendation. Watching 'Discarnate', it is not a complete waste, is a little better than what has been said in the reviews (though do agree with a lot with what has been said) and has its moments but was more the less what was expected and indicated from the trailer and is not a particularly good film.

Beginning with the good, 'Discarnate' looks reasonably good, have seen far worse and cheaper production values recently and not only those of films made on a very low budget but also ones made on a similar one or even a bigger one. The monster surprisingly does not look bad, could actually see the effort and it looks creepy in alternative to cheap. The monster is also the component that makes the film by default, there is no unintentional humour here and there is a creepiness about it.

There were parts where the acting was okay, where the actors looked like they knew what they were doing and were giving it all they had. Josh Stewart is the best of the bunch. The music is suitably eerie.

Moving onto the too many things that were not done well, and not just a little but not at all, most of the time the acting was poor with a very stiff and disengaged lead actress. The characters are thinly sketched and there are too many instances of stupid and sometimes illogical behaviour and decision making that makes one endear to them even less. The script is as flabby as a damp squib with a lot of clunky script that never flows like silk.

Had no trouble following the story, a pretty simple one in a way, but nothing new was done with such an over-familiar premise and instead of thrills, tension or suspense (far too little of all three) there are just far too many dead stretches and plot contrivances. Making it a hopelessly bland and forced film, capped off by running badly out of steam at the end, which is nonsensical and anti-climactic.

In conclusion, not awful but very lacklustre. 4/10

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