{"id":35180,"date":"2014-06-24T02:31:34","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T06:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=35180"},"modified":"2021-05-09T02:35:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T06:35:16","slug":"daniel-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/24\/daniel-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel (2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Daniel-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35181\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Daniel-Poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Daniel-Poster.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Daniel-Poster-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Daniel-Poster-1x1.jpg 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>If there\u2019s one really negative criticism I can lobby at \u201cDaniel\u201d is that it feels more like a prologue to a larger film, than a short film. And I\u2019d love to see Peter Dukes create the long form narrative to this shot film someday. \u201cDaniel\u201d is a very good and creepy short film that centers on its big hook, and once it comes, it\u2019s tough to forget.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDaniel\u201d stars Dominic Pace as a bat wielding intruder, lurking in a house, trying to manipulate young Daniel in to coming out of hiding. Apparently something heinous has gone down, with his mom now dead, and his dad being held down outside, and Pace\u2019s character isn\u2019t intent on leaving any time soon. At three minutes in length, director Peter Dukes has a lot of story to tell and groundwork to lie down, and he accomplishes the feat through visual cues that act as exposition.<\/p>\n<p>While I was sure the film was taking me somewhere, I really didn\u2019t expect Dukes to end on such a low and creepy note. The special effects, however brief, are rather fantastic and really sold the concept for what is the aftermath, and opening to a larger battle afoot. \u201cDaniel\u201d is a short but sweet horror film worth looking for, and Peter Dukes pulls off another fine genre entry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there\u2019s one really negative criticism I can lobby at \u201cDaniel\u201d is that it feels more like a prologue to a larger film, than a short film. And I\u2019d love to see Peter Dukes create the long form narrative to this shot film someday. \u201cDaniel\u201d is a very good and creepy short film that centers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[477,501,703,938,1087],"class_list":["post-35180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/35180","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=35180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35182,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35180\/revisions\/35182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}