{"id":22308,"date":"2016-09-15T15:25:41","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T19:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=22308"},"modified":"2016-09-15T15:28:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T19:28:32","slug":"let-her-out-2016-frightfest-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/15\/let-her-out-2016-frightfest-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Her Out (2016) [FrightFest 2016]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"let-her-out\"<\/a>After Helen, a bike messenger, gets hit by a car, she awakens in the hospital and soon finds herself haunted and taunted by her twin who she absorbed during her development in utero.\u00a0 As Helen seems to lose her mind more and more, her evil twin makes more and more appearances and damage.\u00a0 Or does she? Written by Adam Seybold based on a story by himself and director Cody Calahan, the film explores the evil twin subject in an interesting manner as the viewer is almost never sure if it\u2019s a twin, a ghost, a possession, or simply mental issues that are causing all the mayhem.<\/p>\n

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They create strong female characters that are not just there to support male ones, but are good leads and baddies, something of a theme in Black Fawn Films produced films (Bite, Bed of the Dead).\u00a0 The lead of Helen is interesting to watch go through all of this while her best friend Molly is a good supporting character that actually does feel like a long time bestie, she cares while also being rather blunt at times, she wants what\u2019s best for her friend even if she needs to get mean to get to it, they are more like family than just friends. In the lead role of Helen, Alanna LeVierge shows confusion and fear of what is happening to her and inside her very well.<\/p>\n

The way she switches personalities creates questions as to what is up with her character: has she lost her mind, is she possessed, or even haunted?\u00a0 Did she make up the twin or is this really something that is happening to her?\u00a0 She switches back and forth effortlessly, truly bringing the crazy in some scenes and being super sweet in others.\u00a0 Playing her best friend Molly, the other character getting most screen time, is Nina Kiri who shows concern and frustration, not always being the best bestie possible but deep down she shows she cares, something that comes through Kiri\u2019s performance well.\u00a0 Her performance has fewer extremes than LeVierge\u2019s but it work.\u00a0 The two of them have good chemistry and when they back and forth, the deep-rooted friendship shows.<\/p>\n

The film has its first effects heavy scene near the start and then the effects almost stop to slowly ramp up until the effects heavy last reel with a blood soaked sequence that should make even some of the biggest gore hounds wince at least a little bit.\u00a0 The effects by special makeup effects artist Shaun Hunter are flat out gross, which is high praise for effects in a horror film.\u00a0 The way that last sequence of effects is handled is beautiful.\u00a0\u00a0 It makes one shiver and be irked out at the same time which is fabulous.<\/p>\n

Let Her Out is well written with themes of mental illness and the supernatural, led by strong female leads, and supported by fantastically gross special effects.\u00a0 Some of the scares are effective, very effective even, not all simple jump scares.\u00a0 It keeps the attention with a good evolution, effective and building suspense, and some nicely tense and intense scenes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After Helen, a bike messenger, gets hit by a car, she awakens in the hospital and soon finds herself haunted and taunted by her twin who she absorbed during her development in utero.\u00a0 As Helen seems to lose her mind more and more, her evil twin makes more and more appearances and damage.\u00a0 Or does […]<\/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":[419,477,590,703,1008,1087],"class_list":["post-22308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-gore","tag-horror","tag-l","tag-mystery","tag-supernatural","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22308","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=22308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22310,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22308\/revisions\/22310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}