Entrance (2012)

Entrance: Directed by Dallas Richard Hallam, Patrick Horvath. With Suziey Block, Karen Baird, Farley Burge, Karen Gorham. ENTRANCE is about the limits of our perception, how the things lurking on the periphery of our lives can lead to horrific conclusions; about how she fell out of love with the city, but it wouldn’t let her go.

“To lesser degrees, Entrance is much like critically acclaimed Michael Hanekeu0026#39;s u0026quot;Cache.u0026quot; It focuses on the verisimilitude of the medium without using shaky cam or other tricks. Rather than inundating with atmosphere and creepiness, he drains the audience with banality and normalcy. Defying the audienceu0026#39;s expectations of a horror film helps to create a vacuum of uncertainty with a hard to place uneasiness.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWhere your typical stalk and slash film might rely on popcorn scares to pass the time between kills, Entrance leaves you with nothing. On the right viewer it creates a sense of unsettling voyeurism and begins to wear on the actual conscience. On the wrong audience, it instills boredom and anger for lack of gore/shock/scares/etc – sadly there has been a lot of the wrong audience watching this film after Stephen King praised it in Entertainment Weekly. Not to knock Kingu0026#39;s typical fans or the readers of Entertainment Weekly, but this is not a pop-horror piece. Its more art-house indie horror than anything.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIn recent years there has been a lot of interest in evolving the horror genre past its current state and in that regards Entrance may be ahead of its time. Fans of the ultra-slow-burn horror such as u0026quot;Red White and Blueu0026quot; or Ti Westu0026#39;s u0026quot;House of the Devil,u0026quot; should certainly have a profound appreciation for this film. Typical horror fans may only like the final twenty minutes when the pace finally picks up.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI for one immensely enjoyed Entrance, but thoroughly understand how a vast majority of its viewers simply wonu0026#39;t like it. I rated it lower than the very similar film Cache due to a few issues with the sound and simply because on a repeat viewing I didnu0026#39;t find all the cerebral stimulation that Cache offers.”