{"id":18358,"date":"2014-10-22T14:00:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T18:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=18358"},"modified":"2016-01-03T14:02:50","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T19:02:50","slug":"mimesis-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/22\/mimesis-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Mimesis (2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cMimesis\u201d is set in a world where horror fans gather for a party and have no idea what \u201cNight of the Living Dead\u201d is. At one point a character is explaining \u201cNight of the Living Dead<\/a>\u201d prompting confused gleams from everyone. Horror buffs really have no idea what \u201cNight of the Living Dead\u201d is? It\u2019s not even a remotely rare film. \u201cMimesis\u201d is part \u201cNight of the Living Dead\u201d and part \u201cMy Little Eye<\/a>.\u201d Two friends are invited by an acquaintance to attend a party with other horror buffs at a house to meet stars and talk movies. When party goer Duane passes out while drinking, he awakens to find himself in a waking nightmare where he and fellow party goer Judith find themselves fighting off what seem like zombies.<\/p>\n

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Though there\u2019s no possible reason for this situation to occur, and no explanation for their black outs, their predicament proves to be particularly life threatening. After discovering other survivors, they realize they\u2019re acting out \u201cNight of the Living Dead,\u201d the one horror movie that\u2019s in the public domain. Good thing they didn\u2019t wake up in \u201cRobot Monster.\u201d And how convenient is it that the African American character\u2019s name is Duane while his blond counterpart is named Judith? The premise for \u201cMimesis\u201d crumbles from the moment there\u2019s a hint of an explanation as to what\u2019s happening, mainly because the entire plot is so painfully convoluted. Even if something like this could happen, there\u2019s no real guarantee everything would go exactly as planned.<\/p>\n

I mean, what is stopping these people from just bolting and scattering down the road and in to the highway? Even in \u201cNight of the Living Dead\u201d there was heavy talk about simply speed walking past the living dead to get to civilization. Seriously, just run and scatter. And why didn\u2019t anyone call the police about the disappearing farmers? \u201cMimesis\u201d desperately tries to be a horror movie within a horror movie, with somewhat meta-storytelling, but so many of the devices just tend to fall flat. Director Douglas Schulze tries to convince the audience it might just be actual zombies attacking these horror fans, but when one of the villains shambles after them, there\u2019s the apparent make up smear on said zombie.<\/p>\n

As mentioned much of \u201cMimesis\u201d begins with interesting tension and suspense, but then becomes impossible to buy, and very far fetched. What were the odds they\u2019d have an African American, Blonde, and Mom and Dad arrive to the party? What if no one came? \u201cMimesis\u201d has difficulty getting its premise moving, but it works in very rare instances thanks to the great walk on performance by Sid Haig, and a solid turn by Allen Maldonado. That said, \u201cMimesis\u201d left me with too many questions to justify the far fetched premise, so despite the passing moments of creeps, it\u2019s a poorly executed and forgettable horror entry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cMimesis\u201d is set in a world where horror fans gather for a party and have no idea what \u201cNight of the Living Dead\u201d is. At one point a character is explaining \u201cNight of the Living Dead\u201d prompting confused gleams from everyone. Horror buffs really have no idea what \u201cNight of the Living Dead\u201d is? It\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[477,501,617,703,731,1012,1087],"class_list":["post-18358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-m","tag-mystery","tag-night-of-the-living-dead","tag-survival","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18358","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=18358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18360,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18358\/revisions\/18360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}