There’s a lot of head scratching moments during director Becca Kozak’s horror comedy “Last Call,” and that’s both a good thing and a band thing. Director Kozak definitely relies on not really leaning on expectations, but that leads us down a bizarre narrative that I, frankly, wasn’t too clear on. It’s unpredictable, and weird, which is a plus. But I couldn’t quite understand to what end our villains were working toward.
Betsey (Cynthia Loewen) and Linda (Ariel Hansen) are witches who are hanging out at a local dive bar. After meeting a man named Guy (Tyson Storozinski), they proceed to lure him in to the bathroom to have sex, and then take him home with them for even more shenanigans. Things take a turn for the sinister very quickly, suffice to say.
“Last Call” doesn’t really waste any time as it sets up its premise and its characters’ motivations very quickly. The movie’s tone is strictly comic horror, but it veers very much in to dark comedy. The performances for the most part are very good, I was just never sure what the whole finale entailed. I wasn’t a big fan of the pay off involving one of the witches, but I did like how it all culminated in to what I’m assuming was a method of beauty rejuvenation. I wish we’d gotten more time to know these characters and understand their ritual. Do they do this all the time? Do they have to? Do they age quicker if they don’t? I think two more minutes added with a few throwaway exposition lines could really have helped the short feel more developed. In either case, “Last Call” is a short, but sweet Witch tale.