Exclusive! Movie Review! Die My Dear!

Die My Dear!

Cast and Behind the Scene people

Thomas Burks............Victor

Deidre McCauley........Miranda

Jeannie Ferrara............Antoinette

Bobe Kirsche..............Vixen 1

Michelle Vallentyne.....Vixen 2

Penelope Morgan..........Vixen 3

Mathew Kamane......Writer, Director, Editor.

I wanted to take a second and before we started with the review take a moment and say thank you to Christina DiPietro and the good people over at Emberlight for giving me early access to this film. Also for giving me a chance at covering it as well. Didn't have to but it's much appreciated.

The movie centers around a married couple, and this is their "Date Night". Finally, after a few years, they have agreed to meet out in the middle of nowhere to share a meal and I think for each of them to say goodbye. They haven't really been a married couple for a while. That is where it gets interesting. They both have the same idea of killing the other and have taken the steps to achieve it. Guess no one wants to pay for a divorce?

The actors were really good. You do feel like your part of the marriage. Though at times it's more limiting to how the script is.It feels like the film as a whole was more of an experiment. The director/editor kept the camera right on the actors which I don't have a problem with but I think at times it's better to let it out. Show us what they are doing or acting like. I felt like there was more to this then just staying on Deidre face or Thomas's face. Can open it up and actually show us the environment and what's around. A great way to build tension as well.  The suspense as a whole needs to actually be built to feel any form of a threat. The one time when she does open the bedroom door and thinks there is a ghost in the house with her. That was a missed moment. It's played off of the character's face and isn't really shown.  You are in a way telling us that there is no girl in the house. It's better to show than to tell. 

There are some crazy bits I feel in this film yet your missing out on the other half. Though some of the hallucinations those things play pretty well. There is a good solid track formed here. Some pretty trippy ideas and if presented in another light or another way probably could have built up a very cool movie. I also would have added at least some form of a backstory. I think the idea of actually seeing how they created this bad of a marriage would have been fun to actually see and would have made us care a bit. 

I think the story is that they find some place of liking and caring for one another. I get that plus too this is an independent film and there is money in play as well. I was even told by Christina that they used 300.00 which is impressive all being said about the film. The run time on this movie is a brisk 90 minutes which I understand. You don't want to stay too long but you do want to tell a story. Think in some way too the story was kind of hampered by what it could do. What was practical.

So to sum up my thoughts on this film is that while it's weird and strange. You got these two older people that have grown apart and are trying to get back together and yet still want to kill one another. Thinking that I guess would set them free? While there are limitations due to the budget and all. I feel that there is a great film here wanting to come out. I don't know really what it wants to be. Scary, funny, thrilling? Overall strange and trippy? It does work in parts and in some, it doesn't. There is a foundation for a story though if you look through it and not a bad one. 

Even throughout all of that I went and checked out the next film that Emberlight and Mathew Kalamane is bringing us later this year and I'm looking forward to it. He's the director and I believe the writer of The Grinn. So shall be interesting to see him grow as a director, and what he cooks up for us next time.