Alp (2016) Reviews

• All over the place

  IKillYouReviews2017-03-02

  A man suffers from sleep paralysis and is haunted by a demon called the ''Alp''. For an $8,000 budget movie it's pretty decent. I've seen other B movies with the same quality but more costly. An example of a good idea that could have been great if the creator had more resources, like movies like Insidious or Sinister. There's only so much you can do with so little money, and limited access to decent actors. The movie was straight forward and easy to follow until the very end. Everything is so jumbled to point where it was hard to tell if the man was really asleep or awake. Even when he's in bed having one of his episodes, we're left to wonder if he imagined the whole thing. Acting skills are sub-par. The lead, playing the man suffering from sleep paralysis, was the worst when trying to express any emotion. Almost like a robot, no matter if he was calm, crazy or upset, he had the same pitch. No one gave a great performance but he had to carry the whole movie. The actress playing his girlfriend was the better one compared to everyone else, but that's not saying much.

• Who are you shadows, shadows everywhere.

  nogodnomasters2017-12-29

  Chris (Adrian Lockett) has bad dreams from his childhood. Eventually he believes he is having a night time visitor called an Alp. We eventually discover it involves a fire and a creepy looking babysitter. The dreams are disrupting his life. This is a shoestring budget film...nice opening fonts BTW. It doesn't feel like it is hitting on all cylinders. The opening "teaser" scene is 2 guys going up to a door and not too horrible a door at that. With that I kept my expectations low. The overall plot wasn't bad, but the execution lacked. Simple things they could do to make it better, such as effective use of shadows, wasn't there. Dialogue felt forced. It didn't flow naturally. Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.