TERREUR 404
MARIE NOIRE
Watchable. The tale is tongue-in-cheek and focuses around.... ghost-navigation in the phone. The upbuilding gave me the creeps but the actual ghost fails to scare. Inconsistencies and ambiguities are too much for a 12-minute plot.
PLACE DES FRENES
Watchable. I have to admit it's convincingly acted - the vomiting, several times in the short film, is truly revolting. As for the storyline, once it ends, having seen two episodes so far, you get the formula of each: the protagonists get their comeuppance - that makes the plots all too predictable.
KRYSTELLE
Watchable. Predictable from the moment of the conflict but pleasant, with no nerve-wrecking suspense. The least brutal of the three. It first touches you with truly tender scenes but then a silly conflict transforms into a battle of the sexes. The story does not end with the murder.
All films in the horror series appear to be shot in bright colours, well-paced, with a few turns of action, even if easy to foresee. At the same time, it's unashamedly commercial, aimed at the very audience that's into "Black Mirror". By and large, just because the formula is so derivative, the series does not make for such compelling viewing.
In Poland, released on CDA Premium, the series is available with Polish voice-over as "Terror 404". Two new webisodes weekly, the first two are already online and 12 minutes long each.
THIS IS SHORT
NEW POINT OF VIEW
CONTAGIOUS WHISPER
Watchable. A rubbish bin/trash can of ideas - shot by one person in London and one in an American desert so I'm using both expressions. The film doesn't match its description. It's a mixture of acting, art, nature which turns the infodemic issue upside down. Still, it's a mess so whichever way the authors reached the conclusion it could be positive, you can't make out one clear storyline.
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