Paintball (Spain) (NY/OnDemand)
| release date | January 29 2010 |
| studio | IFC Films |
| director | Daniel Benmayor |
| writer | Mario Schoendor |
| starring | Brendan Mckey, Robert Maskell, Patrick Regis, Jennifer Matter, Peter Vives, Claudia Bassols, Anna Casas, Iaione Pérez |
| site | paintballthemovie.com |
| trailer 1 | Trailer #1 |
1 Comments
Highlights include scenes of brutal violence shot through a first-person infer-red camera, which reduces the innitial shock and one’s tendency to wince or look away, and instead allows the viewer to look-on, passivly, as observers to these scenes of sadistic, hardcore violence. By doing it this way, we really take in the violence, and are left thinking about it after the scene. The technique used by the film maker has the same effect as black and white film and photos that allow you to really focus on the subject. This unusual, visual technique was what makes the film stand above its standard, uninspiring story and less than stellar ending. It also didn’t help that I had to read mediocre dialogue in subtitles. Overall, not bad, and worth a look on video for its fresh, inspiring elements and take on an otherwise predictable horror genre.
I enjoyed it. Killer POV can get a little annoying at times & some of the characters decisions made me scratch my head, but no movies perfect. If killer POV wasn’t in infrared I think I would have scored this movie as a 7.5 or 8. There were some really cool kills, but being in infrared, some of the shock value was taken away. The movie had some flaws, but definitely worth a watch.
A petty little survival-slasher from Spain, quite silly, cliché-laden and unoriginal. Filled with annoying characters, stupid character decisions and awfully bad dialogue. The script is badly written, the plot is lame and the ending is just fucked up. At least it’s mildly enjoyable with a couple of nice kills, a pretty tense opening scene, some ok cinematography and an entertaining kinda-”Graduation Day”-cheesiness.
Nothing to really separate this film from the pack, and there is one thing that goes heavily against it, all the kills are seen in infrared…
A near American Version of Battle Royal….Done RIGHT!