{"id":20210,"date":"2016-03-24T21:25:49","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T01:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=20210"},"modified":"2016-03-24T21:25:49","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T01:25:49","slug":"doppelganger-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/24\/doppelganger-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Doppelganger (2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/doppleganger.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20211\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/doppleganger.jpg\" alt=\"doppleganger\" width=\"585\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/doppleganger.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/doppleganger-300x147.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/doppleganger-538x264.jpg 538w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Good grief is Drew Daywalt one of the best indie horror filmmakers working today. It&#8217;s not many filmmakers that can deliver constantly frightening and surprising short films that pack wallops of surprise endings and twists that&#8217;ll leave you breathtaken. Daywalt is a master of drawing out the scare, and often times he even gets away with a jump scare. It&#8217;s not many filmmakers I allow to throw a jump scare my way, but Daywalt takes the often cheapened device and turns it in to a fun little way to book end his horror films. And damn it, he gets me every time.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Along with &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C_8O3DCuppA\">The Closet<\/a>,&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/01\/the-old-chair-2012\/\">The Old Chair<\/a>,&#8221; his 2010 short film &#8220;The Doppelganger&#8221; is a brilliant short with a top shelf twist ending that I just couldn&#8217;t get over. A young girl is on the way home from work and receives a frantic call from her husband on her cellphone. He urges her not to go home, and that the man she&#8217;s going home to is not him and is in fact an evil doppelganger. A doppelganger, being an evil twin from another reality, is waiting for her as she arrives from work, and she doesn&#8217;t really know what to believe.<\/p>\n<p>Reagan Dale Neis is fantastic as this young woman who is not quite sure what to believe and has a difficult time processing this delivery of information that she seems almost too ready to believe. Why she&#8217;s prepared to buy in to this story becomes tough to comprehend, along with when exactly the screws turned for her. Daywalt&#8217;s pacing, matched the tricky editing and gut punch surprise twist make &#8220;Doppelganger&#8221; one of the many really excellent short horror films from the Daywalt Fear Factory.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CxfpmFjZugI?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good grief is Drew Daywalt one of the best indie horror filmmakers working today. It&#8217;s not many filmmakers that can deliver constantly frightening and surprising short films that pack wallops of surprise endings and twists that&#8217;ll leave you breathtaken. Daywalt is a master of drawing out the scare, and often times he even gets away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[249,477,501,703,938,1087],"class_list":["post-20210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-movie-reviews","tag-d","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-mystery","tag-short-film","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20210","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=20210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20212,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20210\/revisions\/20212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}