Blackout

Film d'horreur indie sur un loup-garou qui décide d’alléger le monde de son existence, mais avant cela, il compte régler ses comptes avec quelques-uns de ses voisins dans un bled new-yorkais et affronter un magnat de l'immobilier local usant de pratiques malhonnêtes. En fait, c'est un drame indépendant plutôt charmant, naïvement amateur, qui cache son très bas budget autant qu'il le peut, sauf que le côté cheap est très perceptible. Et il en découle, notamment dans le dernier tiers du film, quelques scènes qui se révèlent – sans doute involontairement – amusantes. [Sitges 2023] (06/10/2023)

Blackout is a cheap, sometimes unintentionally ridiculous, often quite boring and, in terms of filmmaking, almost amateurish horror drama about a man who tries to put his life in order after the death of his father and breakup with his girlfriend. And he has also been a werewolf for a few weeks, but more is made of that only in the last (so bad that it’s good) quarter of the film. Until then, Blackout is mostly a stultifying and repetitive conversational film in which the protagonist uninterestingly talks with various people in his small town, where he tries to deal with the corruption around the local timber merchant. (05/10/2023)