Caveat

This movie pisses me off. The creators deliver a rather pleasingly bizarre premise and even with apparently quite meagre financial means they conjure up a strong horror psycho atmosphere, but I was entertained and interested for no more than twenty minutes or so. The rest goes in circles around that one house and it's kind of the same thing. Damian McCarthy has made some award-winning genre shorts, but this wasn't the right time to make the transition to feature-length. (06/06/2021)

Another overrated cheap oddity. Watching Caveat, I thought it could have half an hour less, because the two hours running time is just too much, and when it was over I realised it was only eighty minutes long. Yeah that's a bad calling card. Caveat is a kind of slow burn easy going atmospheric drama about a man who takes a job for a few days to take care of a mentally unstable woman on an isolated island in an isolated house. Not everything goes according to plan and soon he wants to get out of it all, but it's too late. It's very minimalist, set in a single house that's pretty ugly. There is a twist, but nothing major. There is no gore, not much in terms of scares, I think there is only one. There are a few atmospheric sequences (walking through the house in the dark with a torch), but it's all marred by a completely weird and nonsensical ending that buries the film one level down. Plus for the stuffed rabbit, which is pretty creepy, but could have been there for more than five minutes. Most of the time it's this a weird walk around the house with nothing significant or interesting happening, and I just don't like that very much. The film may find its fans. 4/10. (05/06/2021)