{"id":22744,"date":"2016-10-14T17:11:01","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T21:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=22744"},"modified":"2016-10-14T17:27:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T21:27:42","slug":"hag-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/14\/hag-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Hag (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/hag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22745\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/hag.jpg\" alt=\"hag\" width=\"500\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/hag.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/hag-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/hag-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Old Hag Syndrome&#8221; is a state of paralysis where the sleeper usually awakens completely frozen, but conscious and is convinced a supernatural entity is among them and is sitting on their chest. This is where the origin of creatures like the Succubus stems from. Scott Somers is a seemingly normal man married to a beautiful wife named Marie, but every night he awakens to see his wife standing at the window and muttering to herself. Convinced she\u2019s sleepwalking, Scott awakens yet again in the middle of the night, but this time incapable of movement.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When he realizes he\u2019s being mounted by a horrific female hag, he seeks out counseling with Marie, thinking the nightmares tie in with his slowly deteriorating romance with Marie. Despite Marie\u2019s frustration with Scott, and their therapist insisting Scott\u2019s nightmares are merely just natural phenomenon, events spiral out of control as Marie begins displaying odder and odder behavior, and the nightmares increase in terror. \u201cHag\u201d is a wonderful dark fantasy horror short with incredible direction by Erik Gardner. Apparently inspired by true events, Gardner builds on the tension creating a very compelling mystery and resolves the events in quite a satisfying and imaginative method.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Gardner brings with him an excellent crew, with everything from the editing to the incredible make up effects adding to the mounting terror of the tale we experience. The cast are also remarkable with co-star Megan Duffy stealing the show. She\u2019s not only insanely gorgeous but does a damn good job injecting a sense of mystique to her character, where we\u2019re never quite sure if Scott is being terrorized by a monster (a top notch Eileen Dietz), or if he\u2019s merely manifesting his fears about his wife in to vivid dreams. \u201cHag\u201d is a slick and excellent short worthy of your time, and I hope we can see more from Erik Gardner very soon.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/135067446\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Old Hag Syndrome&#8221; is a state of paralysis where the sleeper usually awakens completely frozen, but conscious and is convinced a supernatural entity is among them and is sitting on their chest. This is where the origin of creatures like the Succubus stems from. Scott Somers is a seemingly normal man married to a beautiful [&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":[259,349,438,477,501,676,703,938,1087],"class_list":["post-22744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","tag-dark-comedy","tag-fantasy","tag-h","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-monster","tag-mystery","tag-short-film","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22744","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=22744"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22747,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22744\/revisions\/22747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}