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Alive (2019)

Horror | 91 minutes
2,75 55 votes

Genre: Horror / Thriller

Duration: 91 minuten

Country: Canada

Directed by: Rob Grant

Stars: Thomas Cocquerel, Camille Stopps and Angus Macfadyen

IMDb score: 5,3 (2.064)

Releasedate: 18 September 2020

Alive plot

"Maybe dead is better."

A man and a woman wake up dazed and seriously injured in a dilapidated sanatorium. They no longer know who they are or where they are. They soon find out that a sadistic man is holding them captive and "grooming" them.

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Bottleneck

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A nice snack with a focus on three people and that works quite well. After about forty minutes it starts to loosen up a bit, but it doesn't really get exciting or crazy/weird. The film lacks a face of its own; with camera work, music and the location it could have gotten more atmosphere. Towards the end it also gets a bit clumsy (for example getting into a car and - surprise - the doctor is in there). So it has a nice premise but mediocre execution.

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Tonypulp

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Fine genre work. Pleasantly surprised to find this one from Grant on the shelves. After the success of Harpoon (2019) it was a name to keep an eye on, but hardly possible due to the difficult (legal) availability of his work. With this release now at least the perfect opportunity to see if Harpoon was a fluke. The core qualities were mainly the black comedy / cynicism character, sharpness of both script and (young) cast and appropriate 'hardness'. Alive is in terms of design (again) very traditional torture and Grant also seems to feel at ease within those familiar paths. Although the whole is competently set up and atmospherically shot, he does not succeed in breaking free from those restrictive clichés. The premise and the eventual denouement are therefore more fun on paper than the road to it. The biggest flaw is a truly striking psycho, which I don't see fully coming into its own in Macfadyen.

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Fisico

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I had previously classified this horror under torture, but it turns out somewhat differently. This is not Hostel or Saw. Although it does contain all the elements and atmosphere to have that idea. On a psychological level, it can certainly go in that direction. It is a situation you do not want to end up in. In addition to the many questions about where you are and who is doing this to you, you shudder at the idea of what your eyes project to you: a bleak bunker room with surgical equipment around you and a lot of blood on the walls and on your body. You flip for less ...

Apart from the questions and the mystery, a rather disappointing course. It remains a bit too much stuck in question marks without creating progress in the plot. Visually quite atmospheric, in terms of plot too mediocre to really convince you. The ending also ends in a fizzle.

My DVD cover has the creepy hand on the cover. Cool poster! The film is certainly not boring and with its one and a half hours the film flies by. But there was so much more in it.

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