{"id":30308,"date":"2019-02-02T07:23:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T12:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=30308"},"modified":"2019-02-02T07:23:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T12:23:31","slug":"42-counts-2018-final-girls-berlin-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/02\/42-counts-2018-final-girls-berlin-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"42 Counts (2018) [Final Girls Berlin Film Festival]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/42_counts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30309\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/42_counts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/42_counts.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/42_counts-300x127.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/42_counts-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><strong><em>\u201cObsessions\u201d Shorts Block<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With the accessibility and affordability of modern technology, it\u2019s become all too easy to spy on people. With a simple click of a button it only takes basic know how to sneak up on a stranger and watch their every move. Director Jill Sixx Gevarzigian sets her horror short on an all too common occurrence. It\u2019s a heinous, intrusive, and perverse crime that\u2019s equivalent to rape or molestation.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Najarra Townsend and Andrea Dover play Ava and Alicia, two best friends and roommates going through normal obstacles in their persona lives. One night while relaxing at home, roommate Alicia notices an irregular detail in the apartment\u2019s smoke detector. Before long, the pair of roommates find various video devices around their house and realize that they\u2019ve become victim to a predator who has been watching them for longer than either of them realize. Jill Sixx Gevarzigian\u2019s film is very scary, not just because of the fantastic direction, but because the premise is rooted in the real world, and is based on actual crimes that have been committed around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Though writer Gevarzigian never actually divulges who the film is based on, all that\u2019s important is that this is a crime that\u2019s occurred to too many women. As well, the damage that\u2019s inflicted on the victim has long term repercussions scarier than any fictional monster on paper. Gevarzigian thankfully keeps the pacing and momentum tight, with the mystery leading the pair of women in to a rabbit hole that\u2019s too disturbing for either of them to comprehend. \u201c42 Counts\u201d has the chance to be exploitative, but thankfully keeps the narrative very tasteful and in keeping with the inherent terror of the massive discovery the two friends unearth. This is an important short film with a very dire message about taking a second look at your surroundings and how, especially in this day and age, life for women can harrowing at any moment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Final Girls Berlin Film Festival runs every year from January 31<sup>st<\/sup> to February 3<sup>rd<\/sup>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cObsessions\u201d Shorts Block With the accessibility and affordability of modern technology, it\u2019s become all too easy to spy on people. With a simple click of a button it only takes basic know how to sneak up on a stranger and watch their every move. Director Jill Sixx Gevarzigian sets her horror short on an all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[477,501,703,938,1087],"class_list":["post-30308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-movie-reviews","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-mystery","tag-short-film","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30308","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=30308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30310,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30308\/revisions\/30310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}