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While initially I feared
the ending would be a fake out or a "Gotcha!" I was very pleased to find
that Toby Spanton's horror thriller short is really just a straight
forward horror film with a take on the "Curiosity killed the cat" adage
that means more than anything to two young folks living in a flat.
Golden Globe winning actress Emily Blunt stars with Tom Riley as a young
couple catching up with their elderly neighbor gossiping about the rash
of disappearances around the neighborhood and she insists they must meet
her nephew.
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That night
they awake to the horrific sounds of scratching dirt and
husband Mike is terrified to see a ghoulish man dragging a
sack in to a dirt plot in their neighbor's backyard. Soon as
the investigation unfolds, a fight for life and death begins
as Mike does battle with the psycho, struggling to get back
to his apartment and unveil this murder mystery while wife
Emma looks on in terror hoping to get the police before
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Filled with boiling
tension and brilliant suspense, "Curiosity" is a classic horror film
with a beautiful sense of dread and plot elements that are left to
the audience to discover for themselves along with very good
performances from stars Riley and Blunt, both of whom are typical
horror protagonists who find themselves at the wrong place at the
wrong and ultimately become victims of their own good deeds.
Spanton's directorial style is excellent and with a sleek sense of
isolation and claustrophobia, he turns "Curiosity" in to a bonafide
stellar thriller worth the time of anyone looking for a quick
fright.
Stars Emily Blunt and
Tom Riley are show stoppers in what is a quite excellent creepy horror
thriller with the classic take on "Curiosity killed the Cat" while also
twisting the classic formula of Hitchcock's "Rear Window." This is a
great little horror film, and I highly recommend it.
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