{"id":15801,"date":"2015-06-30T15:33:51","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T19:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=15801"},"modified":"2015-06-30T16:01:53","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T20:01:53","slug":"haven-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/30\/haven-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Haven (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/haven.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15802\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/haven.jpg\" alt=\"haven\" width=\"533\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/haven.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/haven-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Michael Gabriele is a powerful director, and it\u2019s proven by \u201cHaven\u201d where he films a beautiful vision of the apocalypse. Surely, it\u2019s one that\u2019s wrought with violence, and a disgusting death, but it\u2019s also one that\u2019s utterly mesmerizing. Some of the shots within \u201cHaven\u201d are magnificent, and he uses a lot of the settings to depict a desolate world where starvation is the order of the day.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Set during the apocalypse where most of the world\u2019s population have deteriorated from GMO foods, four strangers are traveling their city looking for food. They have an unfortunate task ahead of them though, as GMO\u2019s are easy to come by and could promise them horrible deaths. They find an old food storage unit where they manage to come across a seemingly normal batch of fruit. What seems to be their salvation soon becomes a slow and painful experience of their worst fears. \u201cHaven\u201d is a beautiful depiction of the apocalypse that is capable of being turned in to a full length film.<\/p>\n<p>From Michael Gabriele\u2019s direction to Jordan Brandes\u2019 tight writing, I found \u201cHaven\u201d to be both fantastic and creepy. Once the foursome head in to their safe haven, things aren\u2019t exactly what they seem, and Gabriele has fun playing with various colors, and shadows, providing a trip in to their minds. The only fault I found with \u201cHaven\u201d is that I have no clue what the hell the ending was supposed to indicate; if anything. Was it all in the character\u2019s mind? Was someone experimenting on them? Was the whole surgical table symbolic of something? Despite the baffling final scene, \u201cHaven\u201d is a remarkable apocalyptic film with top notch direction. I hope to see more from Michael Gabriele soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Gabriele is a powerful director, and it\u2019s proven by \u201cHaven\u201d where he films a beautiful vision of the apocalypse. Surely, it\u2019s one that\u2019s wrought with violence, and a disgusting death, but it\u2019s also one that\u2019s utterly mesmerizing. Some of the shots within \u201cHaven\u201d are magnificent, and he uses a lot of the settings to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[104,438,501,906,938,1087],"class_list":["post-15801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-apocalypse","tag-h","tag-indie-film","tag-science-fiction","tag-short-film","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15803,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15801\/revisions\/15803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}