The Piper

Film - 2023

5,0

35.8K

The Piper it's a movie with Charlotte Hope, Julian Sands Full cast. Directed by Erlingur Thoroddsen. Original title The Piper Genre Horror.

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Balkan Castevet

The Piper takes the folklore story The Piper of Hamelin to build a horror film on it. The first act of the film is also good, the Argentinian influences are immediately noticeable, especially Suspiria, with the photography playing a lot with reds, purples and blues which embellish the staging and serve to create atmosphere to give strength to the individual scenes. So far Thorodssen's direction uses slow camera movements, very well for example when Mel, the young girl protagonist who also has a daughter, has to look for the missing scores of his mentor in the latter's house where the camera movements to get closer towards Mel, the detail of the shattered mirror works and overall creates a constructed atmosphere. The direction also works while listening to the "cursed" melody with flashes of the past among foggy landscapes, disturbing figures always with good photography behind them. The problem is that subsequently the film becomes a "classic" jump scare horror where the direction doesn't even have the mastery to prolong the suspense scenes, therefore the jump scares appear mechanical and telephonic; in addition, there are also CGI effects, the poorly rendered eyes of the creature that kill the mise-en-scène which, however, thanks to the photography, remains accurate and silver-like, recreating single shots and good scenes, which taken on their own would work but precisely in the global context they appear yes some beautiful scenes but not always enhanced by the context. Despite this, the film still has its ideas both from the visual side as written but also in its messages and sub-texts. The film talks about chaos and harmony, the demonic piper of Hamelin, therefore chaos, in the film is evoked by two men, Gustaftson the master/director, for whom Mel also plays, and Franklin, in fact the "rival" of the protagonist, the one who disputes Read all

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A young composer is given the opportunity of a lifetime when she is tasked with finishing her late mentor’s concerto. But she soon discovers that playing the music summons deadly consequences, leading her to uncover the disturbing origins of the melody and the evil force it has awakened: the Pied Piper.