{"id":18492,"date":"2016-01-14T16:44:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T21:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=18492"},"modified":"2016-01-14T16:44:24","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T21:44:24","slug":"chilling-visions-5-states-of-fear-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/14\/chilling-visions-5-states-of-fear-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Chilling Visions: 5 States of Fear (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Chiller Films\u2019 \u201cChilling Visions\u201d is on its way to being a solid series of anthology films made up of some of the best horror voices around. While I really enjoyed \u201c5 Senses of Fear<\/a>\u201d despite being a mixed bag, \u201c5 States of Fear\u201d is a noticeable step down in quality. I really like the devotion of horror tales to certain ideas of psychology and fear. I also really like giving indie filmmakers a voice with highly publicized anthology horror films, I just wish \u201c5 States of Fear\u201d was more well put together and coherent. It\u2019s not a bad movie, but the producers stretch the idea so far, it\u2019s kind of pointless continuing the gimmick by tale two.<\/p>\n

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First there\u2019s \u201cEgo-Death,\u201d whatever that means, from director Brett Simmons. More coherent than \u201cThe Monkey\u2019s Paw,\u201d this segment is short but sweet. Centered on a man who ventures out to the desert to murder and bury a woman, he finds himself plagued by visions and voices of the woman he murdered who happens to have been his mistress. When he goes out to the desert to see if she\u2019s really dead, he gets a surprise. Though the segment is short and could have stood for more exposition, it\u2019s an interesting preamble. \u201cSeparation\u201d is easily the best of the bunch and carries the spirit of something we\u2019d likely find in a \u201cCreepshow<\/a>\u201d reboot. Glenn McQuaid directs the tale of an elderly man named Jim who is still convinced his long passed dog is still around, and can barely keep his senses about most of the time.<\/p>\n

Despite his long suffering daughter and son in law\u2019s insistence that he go in to a home, Jim decides to see if he\u2019s really losing his mind. McQuaid directs a demented and delightfully sly segment with a great surprise ending that I quite enjoyed. \u201cMutilation\u201d is an attempt to inject pointless gore even if we don\u2019t need it, as director John Poliquin directs an alleged fact based tale. Centered on a young couple Joel and Sarah heading off to visit his old camping grounds from his childhood, they step in to an infected zone that gave birth to Lyme Disease, where Sarah is convinced she has bugs under her skin and begins tearing herself to bits. It\u2019s a dull and pointless segment that would have worked more toward states of paranoia or loss of sanity.<\/p>\n

\u201cExtinction\u201d is the second best of the bunch, where a mother\u2019s dead daughter comes back from the afterlife insisting her mom avenge her murder so her soul can rest. It\u2019s a tragic and eerie story in the vein of \u201cDeathdream\u201d about how overbearing parents can sometimes be more painful than death. The finale, \u201cLoss of Autonomy\u201d is a mean spirited and irritating short about a feuding husband and wife news casting team. When the husband is stricken with a massive stroke rendering him paralyzed his vindictive wife begins scheming to steal his money, and make him suffer. But he has an ace up his sleeve, as his stroke mysteriously grants him psychic powers. It\u2019s a poor book end to a mediocre anthology series. \u201c5 States of Fear\u201d is an inferior follow up, but I\u2019d like to see \u201cChiller Films\u201d dip back in to this pool again, as I think there\u2019s still a great anthology to be mined from this concept.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chiller Films\u2019 \u201cChilling Visions\u201d is on its way to being a solid series of anthology films made up of some of the best horror voices around. While I really enjoyed \u201c5 Senses of Fear\u201d despite being a mixed bag, \u201c5 States of Fear\u201d is a noticeable step down in quality. I really like the devotion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,17],"tags":[103,170,409,477,703,840,922,1008,1087,1130],"class_list":["post-18492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","category-tv-tomb","tag-anthology","tag-c","tag-ghosts","tag-horror","tag-mystery","tag-revenge","tag-sequel","tag-supernatural","tag-thriller","tag-tv-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18492","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=18492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18494,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18492\/revisions\/18494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}