{"id":22080,"date":"2014-10-06T13:53:30","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T17:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=22080"},"modified":"2016-08-22T13:56:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T17:56:30","slug":"the-shift-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/06\/the-shift-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shift (2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/The-Shift.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22081\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/The-Shift.jpg\" alt=\"The-Shift\" width=\"470\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/The-Shift.jpg 470w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/The-Shift-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/The-Shift-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/a>It\u2019s pretty astonishing how much story Francesco Calabrese is able to tell and establish in just eight minutes. \u201cThe Shift\u201d is both a horror film and a meta-film at once, exploring a very picturesque scene draped in pure terror. \u201cThe Shift\u201d is set in the sixties. Or at least, the neighborhood we view looks very much of its time and Betty has just decided that it\u2019s the sixties. In either case, all is not serene when we fade in to \u201cThe Shift.\u201d When Joe returns home from work, he is knocked out awakens to find the ginger haired beauty Betty awaiting him.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>What seems like a conventional series of events involving revolting gradually becomes something so much more, and the viewer is left to decide what they\u2019re watching. \u201cI will never have sex with you, or cook you dinner, or clean after you again,\u201d Betty insists, even though she demands the utmost loyalty and monotony from Joe. Director Francesco Calabrese delights in leaving the audience in the dark, relying on heavy ambiguity to convey sheer terror, without over explaining what is occurring. Surely Betty looks like your normal house wife from the sixties, but rest assured, she is anything but. Francesco Calabrese perfectly sets the picture for the ensuing horror, capturing every nook and cranny of the house Joe enters to seem as if it were ripped directly out of the sixties, right down to the black and white television blaring in front of him.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s never a full indication of what we\u2019re watching, because Calabrese makes it clear that he\u2019s running this narrative. Not to mention Betty has a firm control over her surroundings, to the point where Joe\u2019s escape is futile. Calabrese reveals in small detail what may be occurring through very well edited peeks at Betty, but once they step out on to the neighborhood, we\u2019re forced to examine their surroundings and view what may just be the beginning of something global. From the final scene that breaks the fourth wall, right down to the typewriter lingering on the blank page with a \u201cThe End?\u201d Francesco Calabrese concocts a truly remarkable and spooky meta-science fiction horror hybrid that I wanted to see much more of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s pretty astonishing how much story Francesco Calabrese is able to tell and establish in just eight minutes. \u201cThe Shift\u201d is both a horror film and a meta-film at once, exploring a very picturesque scene draped in pure terror. \u201cThe Shift\u201d is set in the sixties. Or at least, the neighborhood we view looks very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[477,501,885,906,938,1087],"class_list":["post-22080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-s","tag-science-fiction","tag-short-film","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22080","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=22080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22082,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22080\/revisions\/22082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}