The Ones Below is
a suspicion thriller by director David Farr, about a couple living in a
tenement that find out their new downstairs neighbors have something else in
common with them, they too are with child.
In The Ones Below David
Farr tackles certain themes as in movies like Basic Instinct, Single White
Female and Fatal Attraction but
takes it down a more artful direction that leads to some scarier results. Using
color tones to convey emotions and physical deterioration, adding a warmly
charming baby themed film score that becomes increasingly ironic as the film
goes on for a creepier experience. David Farr has a great sense for the
tenement location, making it seem open yet claustrophobic constantly in sharp
cornered up close shots, flawlessly done. Paired with cold quick scene cuts and
character movements, paranoid flights of fancy and rollercoaster like emotional
dread is accurately portrayed.
Clémence Poésy (the protagonist) does a perfect job,
seeming sweet, demanding and naturally curious and all the while tortured without
notice of trying. Laura Birn (the antagonist) is frightfully malicious while
holding a defeated tone throughout the movie all the same.
Now even though The
Ones Below is another entry in skeptic horror brought up with the same
traits, the urgent acting and intriguing direction makes it all feel fresh as
can be and you won’t be able to take your eyes off the suspense.
…….neighbor beware…….
-
Maurice Jones
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