The short term goal is being able to work on Uncommon Breed and similar games full time.Īt the moment, I’m working on the RPG / Visual Novel, Uncommon Breed. Whether it be art, animating, modeling, coding, story writing… there’s so much that goes into building games and I’d love to create a home for those passionate about their craft.īut that’s end game. The dream is to forge a game studio capable of helping others follow their own aspirations.
I’m really into software development and sharing my, sometimes outlandish, ideas through the games I create. And a whole lot of crows.Hey guys, I’m FoxBytez. You've got some promising names, and a premise that had at least some potential, but then you've also got dirt-cheap, lazy execution. It should also be known that the screenplay was penned by Todd Farmer ("My Bloody Valentine 3D", "Drive Angry"). The source(s) of this fine mess are the Pang Brothers, who also directed the original film version of "The Eye", which now has a Hollywood remake starring Jessica Alba. It also isn't dramatically engaging because the acting is forgettable, the reactions silly, and the situation not very well thought out. It isn't scary because it relies too much on special effects and cheap, ineffective jump scares instead of the stuff that matters: suspense and scares that are fun and enjoyable. As I said before, the film wants to be more than a mere horror flick but where it ends up failing the most is in both the dramatic and horrific aspects. Now, let's return to the rest of the film, which is, if I might add, absolutely unbearable. There's a cool dutch angle in which a friendly neighbor (and crow-hunter) with a shotgun is shown for the first time in the frame. Indeed, a few shots are sensational and creepy while others are boring and rather bland.
This is when "The Messengers" clearly intends to be a horror film with alternative, deeper themes of family, relationships, and of course, the adolescent troubles of Jess.īecause I'm such a nice guy, and I'd rather get what little "good" there is about this film I'll just say up front that I liked some of the cinematography. Other times, they are violent and hell-bent on destruction and deteriorating the family's relationship. Sometimes, they just cause basic mischief such as an un-cleanable stain on the wall. Soon, Jess is seeing what her little brother has been within the past few days that they've been in the house ghost, ghouls, and spirits speaking from beyond the grave. So if you haven't got the gist already the house has a particularly spooky ghost infestation. If one could see or hear this being they would certainly take notice, but only Ben does so in the scene that involves such a thing. Take for instance the little boy who scampers across the ceiling. Ben is a lively kid but he seems to be seeing things that nobody else can, or does. She spends most of her days going to town with dad (and meeting a handsome young man about her age in the process), exploring her new home, and babysitting her kid brother while the parents are out and about. Jess is adventurous or at least, she wants to be. They have rather enthusiastically made the move not knowing of what they now covet. Members of the family are mom (Penelope Ann Miller) and dad (Dylan McDermott), teen daughter Jess (Kristin Stewart), and young child Ben. In the present time, a new family has moved into the same house the Solomons. No matter, it's like I said, this is a flashback so that was then, and this is now. It also depicts the death of a mother and a child attacked by some unseen force, perhaps a spirit of some sorts. The said scene depicts an old, wooden farmhouse. And if you present the audience with a black-and-white opening sequence - something we don't exactly get often - and yet you're still unable to intrigue them, you've got a problem in need of some serious analysis. It doesn't give the film a style it doesn't even make it the slightest bit entertaining.
In the context of the story, this is a flashback but why did it have to be black-and-white? I believe there is a purpose for the stylistic selection of those two colors - to convey stylistic themes, to convey emotions, to make drama more affective and possibly even moving - but in the case of the film, I don't know what the hell its makers were thinking when they chose to open the movie in this way. "The Messengers" is a derivative and boring horror film so utterly desperate to find a style that it feels the need to have a dull black-and-white opening sequence.