Movie Reviews: Mother Superior, Last Seen, and The Businessman (SLASH Film Festival) – HorrorFuel.com: Reviews, Ratings and Where to Watch the Best Horror Movies & TV Shows

Mom Superior (2022)

Author/director Marie Alice Wolfszahn’s Austrian horror thriller Mom Superior, set in 1975, finds anesthesiste-in-training Sigrun (Isabella Hӓndler) employed on as a nurse for aged Baroness Heidenreich (Inge Maux). The baroness has been going by a sequence of nurses somewhat shortly, however Sigrun hopes to remain on longer than her predecessors. This has much less to do with job safety than it does with the truth that she hopes to seek out some clue about her personal previous. This being a horror movie with thriller parts, the primary setting is of course an remoted rural mansion. Wolfszahn and cinematographer Gabriel Krajanek use this setting to full impact as Sigrun wanders by darkish areas, together with ones that she has been forbidden to enter. The fantastically sunlit grounds present a pointy distinction to the dimly lit home. I don’t need to spoil the a number of shades of thriller at play in Mom Superior, so suffice it to say that the primary characters — together with the baroness’ assistant Otto (Jochen Nickel) — all harbor secrets and techniques, and that hazard lurks ought to any of them be revealed. Wolfszahn’s screenplay tackles darkish historical past, and he or she helms the movie fantastically, aided by a forged giving tremendous performances and exhibiting terrific chemistry.

Final Seen (2021)

In author/director/editor Nathan Ginter’s brief movie Final Seen, Devon (Chris Jensen in a robust, principally silent efficiency) is a younger man struggling after the unresolved disappearance of his youthful sister. He’s additionally having hassle speaking together with his mom, and what he’s going by isn’t serving to him at his lifeguard job, both. Final Seen is a darkish drama that examines grief and loss. Ginter’s filmmaking method to this brief, particularly together with his tremendous job of modifying and the sparse utilization of dialogue, requires shut consideration to suit puzzle items collectively, leading to a harrowing effort. You’ll by no means have a look at Sea Monkeys the identical approach once more. 

The Businessman (2022)

Nathan Ginter strikes once more, this time with a chilling effort entitled The Businessman. Schoolgirl Lola (Liviya Meyers) is strolling residence from college by herself within the woods when she occurs throughout the titular character (Steven Gamble) who, in a really eerie method, tries to get her to query her dependence on her mother and father and to grow to be self-sufficient by promoting classic vogue magazines — or are they of a fairly totally different style? — at her college that he provides. The Businessman has fairly a unique type to it than Final Seen, incorporating longer takes and excessive close-ups to construct the strain and discomfiting environment. Gamble is deliciously menacing in his position, and Meyers performs a younger, confused harmless splendidly. Ginter offers The Businessman an eerie environment all through, constructing as much as a skin-crawling climax.

Mom Superior, Final Seen, and The Businessman screened as a part of SLASH Movie Pageant, which came about in Vienna from September 22–October 2, 2022. For extra data, go to  https://slashfilmfestival.com/en/.