Observance2016
“They are watching”
Directed by Joseph Sims-Dennett
🏆 1 nomination
The premise
In the grip of grief following the death of his young son, his marriage on the rocks and nearing bankruptcy, Parker reluctantly returns to work as a private investigator. Embarking on an unusual assignment to observe a woman from an abandoned apartment, Parker witnesses bizarre happenings surrounding her, unaware that the derelict building that he surveys her from has birthed a dark presence which slowly threatens to consume him.
Horror Vault's take
Crushed by personal tragedy and financial desperation, a private investigator takes a straightforward surveillance job that quickly becomes anything but. Holed up alone in a decaying apartment, he watches a woman across the way while something ancient and malignant within the building begins to watch him back. Australian filmmaker Joseph Sims-Dennett crafts a suffocating slow-burn that blurs the line between a man's crumbling psyche and genuine supernatural threat. What starts as a noir-tinged mystery descends into a deeply unsettling ordeal of decay — both physical and mental.
Content: Disturbing Imagery, Themes Of Child Death And Grief, Psychological Distress, Some Body Horror Elements
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