{"id":22211,"date":"2016-09-05T19:47:56","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T23:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=22211"},"modified":"2016-09-05T19:48:28","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T23:48:28","slug":"lost-solace-2016-frightfest-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/05\/lost-solace-2016-frightfest-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost Solace (2016) [FrightFest 2016]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LOSTSOLACE\"<\/a>Spence is a sociopath who preys on rich women in their times of need.\u00a0 He starts off as the absolute perfect boyfriend, the man most women want: He\u2019s romantic, thoughtful, takes charge when needed, helpful, and he\u2019s good looking.\u00a0 In reality, he\u2019s cold, calculated, doesn\u2019t care about anyone, he\u2019s a sociopath.\u00a0 After he meets his new mark Azaria, he gets in deeper than usual with her family as his health takes a bad turn.<\/p>\n

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Directed by Chris Scheuerman who co-wrote with star Andrew Jenkins, the film develops slowly until a twist in the story changes things.\u00a0 The character of Spence is built almost like a modern day, broke Patrick Bateman.\u00a0 Self-absorbed, only interested in what affects him directly.\u00a0 Where Bateman preyed on his victims for mostly his own entertainment, Spence does it partially for his financial gain.\u00a0 The way this character and his story are built keeps the attention and gets the viewer involved and wanting to know more.<\/p>\n

Andrew Jenkins plays the character of Spence completely cold and faking emotions at first and eventually shows a few actual emotions as the story moves forward.\u00a0 The way he is completely in control at first, and then switches shows a good grasp on the character and the material.\u00a0 Of course, having co-written the film has to have helped.\u00a0 Playing the second mark in the slice of Spence\u2019s life shown is Melissa Roxburgh as Azaria who brings more emotions to the film.\u00a0 She shows nice nuances and balances out the character of Spence.\u00a0 Also giving interesting performances are Charlie Kerr and Michael Kopsa as Azaria\u2019s crazy brother and asshole father.<\/p>\n

The film looks beautiful with cinematography by Thomas Billingsley whose images bring coldness to the film at first, and then brings a more nervous look to the film.\u00a0 Also an important part of the film\u2019s look and style are the visual effects that add a lot to the fell of everything, especially in the second half.\u00a0 From early on, these visual effects create a painting that seems to breathe while later they bring back this painting in a stunning way.\u00a0 After the tonal switch, the use of visual effects is strong and more invasive but in a good way.\u00a0 It adds to a lot of the scenes, bringing the viewer in what is lived by the character.<\/p>\n

Lost Solace looks beautiful with stunning visual effects and good performances.\u00a0 It takes the sociopath as anti-hero and goes in an interesting way.\u00a0 It could have been just another cold blooded con-man story but its twist adds to it, making it more interesting after the groan brought by the twist passes and the film is given a fair chance.\u00a0 Lost Solace is worth seeing for some of its visuals and its take on sociopath as well as its developments which are surprising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spence is a sociopath who preys on rich women in their times of need.\u00a0 He starts off as the absolute perfect boyfriend, the man most women want: He\u2019s romantic, thoughtful, takes charge when needed, helpful, and he\u2019s good looking.\u00a0 In reality, he\u2019s cold, calculated, doesn\u2019t care about anyone, he\u2019s a sociopath.\u00a0 After he meets his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[590,906,1087],"class_list":["post-22211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-l","tag-science-fiction","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22211","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22213,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22211\/revisions\/22213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}