{"id":28927,"date":"2018-10-31T02:01:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T06:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=28927"},"modified":"2018-11-03T16:29:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T20:29:54","slug":"help-me-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/31\/help-me-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Me (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/HelpMe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28928\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/HelpMe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/HelpMe.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/HelpMe-300x131.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/HelpMe-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>I really enjoy what Louie Cortes is going for with \u201cHelp Me.\u201d It\u2019s a very short but sweet horror treat that I loved for its ability to take a twist and make it so fascinating that you want to know more. When the short was finished I lingered for a while on the ending, and I was definitely interested in the ultimate concept that invoked \u201cInvaders from Mars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHelp Me\u201d is set on Halloween night where Monica is about to take off after a wild Halloween party. Despite her friends\u2019 insistence that she be accompanied home, Monica calls for a taxi and waits drunkenly on a street corner. Before long she awakens to hear the muttering of someone asking for help. When she goes to investigate, things get spooky. \u201cHelp Me\u201d is a damn good and creative horror short with an ending that literally made me mutter: \u201cNice!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There\u2019s a lot of great plays on colors, shadows, and the idea of Monica\u2019s state, so Cortes is very good at leaving the viewer to interpret for themselves what is unfolding before our eyes. Let alone Monica\u2019s own eyes. Is it all one big drunken tirade or something a lot more paranormal? I\u2019m fairly certain it\u2019s all left up to our own interpretation, and I\u2019m glad \u201cHelp Me\u201d is a great enough short to provoke ideas and creative ambiguity. Cortes has potential and I hope we see more from him in the future.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/240466725\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really enjoy what Louie Cortes is going for with \u201cHelp Me.\u201d It\u2019s a very short but sweet horror treat that I loved for its ability to take a twist and make it so fascinating that you want to know more. When the short was finished I lingered for a while on the ending, and [&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":[441,477,501,703,938],"class_list":["post-28927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","tag-halloween","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-mystery","tag-short-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28927","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=28927"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29416,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28927\/revisions\/29416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}