It is also a little longer than it needed to be, with space in here to tighten it up, again for the sake of impact. I still liked it for what it does but I would have preferred more of a gut-punch than the tickle that it often came with. Okay so the doilies and sofa etc are inherently not the most serious, but I think it didn't quite get the balance right because it doesn't really let the darkness of what we see sink in. The problem is that it plays a little heavy with a comic touch. I found that quite chilling and, when the film lets you know this, it works very well. To ponder on the detail here, it is quite horrifying because essentially this is a human sacrifice and we understand this as Anna is robbed of the cute spark she opens the film with this is added to by the idea of it occurring deliberately due to others – that someone let her condemn herself to this fate unknowingly. It is an arrangement known to the landlord and indeed many of those involved – and it is a situation known by the tenants desperate to sign over to someone else while they still have some spark of life left. From this point we understand the nature of the apartment and also the actions of the old woman at the start of the film, because this is a supernatural apartment where those that live there are robbed of their life force. As strange as it seems, this is not the weirdest thing to occur to Anna. She scrubs the mildew, paints the walls and throws away the many porcelain figures and doilies – although as much as she does it seems all of them come back, covered in a thick layer of dust. The former tenant is keen to sign off the lease and head off around the world, despite being an old woman, and Anna is happy to move in and get the place clean and tidy. The plot sees a young woman looking for a flat – she had moved to Vienna to be with her boyfriend but it didn't work out and now she is on her own. If I am correct, the original title translates as Lace or Doilies but Vienna Waits for You works well too in this slightly comic horror. I am certainly curious what projects they will be working on in the future. Just like Dominik Hartel and Sarah Wassermair did in this Austrian production. Also this film is proof that you don't need great or very famous actor if you have a smart idea. The actors did fine and it's a nicely atmospheric little horror movie. But these are really just minor criticisms. It's obviously a contrast between something so harmless like lace doilies and the horror in this film, but lace doilies were really never particularly relevant in this film. I could have done without her turning into a puppet sort of. My initial guess was that the flat keeps her somewhat immortal and her veins are already ruptured, but got replace by strings that fulfill the same task. Also I was struggling a bit with the way the apartment apparently changed her blood circulation. Compared to the woman who lived in there before her and was actually played by an older actress, the main character just came short in terms of "old looks". For example the aging makeup could have been better. I enjoyed this short film and only have minor criticisms. As the film goes on, there is a little lesson about morale (involving her ex-friend), but it's really all about her basically. Bad news for our protagonist here as she is about to move in at the start of the film. This flat lets the people who live inside age very quickly. this is also the case for this 25-minute short movie here. I am usually not too big on horror movies, but if there is some kind of invisible danger (like "Blair Witch Project too), I tend to enjoy these a lot.
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