Review of   Balkan Castevet Balkan Castevet

House of Spoils

(Film, 2024)

Horrorino on self-awareness, which explores toxic machismo within the world of catering where the protagonist chef must make her way, is constantly prey to anguish, to the pressure to fulfill herself and truly become a boss. chef.

It's a film with a staging that isn't bad but which lacks the horror side.
There isn't who knows what tension or atmosphere because even on an imaginative level it lacks an certain verve.

Yes, there is the concept of reevaluating the position of the witch, always with a view to subverting the chauvinist point of view but it is the horror element that is a little too stripped down to the bare bones.

Although it is not a jump scare film there are some, the usual two-three, inserted a bit forcefully and therefore avoidable and in general even in the nightmare sequences one notices that the directing couple, Bridget Savage Cole, Danielle Krudy, on the horror side have little to show.

Probably this is linked to the context of the film, i.e. that the witch does not have to be a real horror figure, however the fact remains that the film turns out to be a a little too much less to the element and suggestive strength that it should have.

Even the ending therefore is not well defined for all the characters, who do not have a real complete outcome such as Alvin, the handyman for example of the former witch's house, now a restaurant.

Yes, it's ok not to go out of style in the staging and direct a "clean" film but which is too sparse on horror and suggestions.