Tempus Tormentum (2018)

Recap:

Mr. Mouse comes to town and rents a room in a motel whose owner seems to be interested in taxidermy. In his room, there is a typewriter that is extremely old, very cool, quite mysterious but (just as the motel owner) completely irrelevant for the movie. At the diner, Mr Mouse catches the attention of three local men. Later, they put on masks and hunt him through the night and torture him in various ways until they feel like the time is right to do what they planned.

The movie starts promising, in a way. Okay, so nothing much happens, but you get the feeling that this is not the next generic nobudget slasher padding the runtime, it feels more like they are setting up a deep and sophisticated story, and the light and the props and the camera angles all look good, signaling “don’t worry, friend, trust us. We know exactly what we are doing.” Trouble is: it’s a lie. Director James Rewucki knows very well how to create impressive images, but writer James Rewucki has no idea how to craft an interesting story. At least that’s my opinion. It may very well be that I’m just to dumb to dig a decent arthouse horror. So I guess that people who like unconventional horror may give it a try and make up their own minds. It may very well be that I’ll give it another try another time, and I’m pretty sure that I will take a look at Rewucki’s other feature film which is also on YouTube. It’s got a significantly better imdb rating, but that may be because it’s got only 93 votes so far, many of them probably coming from Rewucki’s artist gang.

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