She’s got her eye line right, a truly expressive face, and she manages to hit all the required emotional beats – seemingly doing so with ease. A rather inexperienced Savannah McDaniel simply blew me away with her performance. The creatures terrifying sound is another facet worth mentioning. A lovely section of the score contains somber piano and violin, and then when the situation escalates, the driving synth begins to flow in. Early provocative foley techniques effectively generate a sense of uneasiness and help convey Elki’s ever-growing frustration and anger toward what she’s constantly having to deal with. The night exteriors of the depot are atmospherically backlit too.Įrin McKimm (who scored Creeper) delivers another memorable score and some really sharp sound design here. His framing is lovely, the shot choices are smart, and the low angles on the school bus are some of the best shots in the film. This is DP, Josh Zaini’s first venture into short filmmaking and it’s a successful one at that. This is happening to youths everywhere and it shows the dangers of what can transpire if others idly stand by and do nothing. Sadly Macdonald showcases the worst of adolescent behavior, and what’s more disturbing is that it’s true to form. Young Elki is just minding her own business on the bus home from school and is yet subjected to a barrage of physical and mental abuse from fellow teen classmate Noelle (Small). The film, whilst fictional in nature, broaches some of the current societal issues we’re having with bullying in our schools and the detrimental effects on the victims of that bullying. Well, I’m pleased to see Drew right back at it again with another outstanding homegrown piece of work. Some of you die-hard MovieGod readers (if such a person exists haha) might remember me reviewing Macdonald’s previous short film “Creeper”, a genuinely disturbing slow-burn Mystery/Thriller, that was, in fact, the best short of 2017 *see review*. The film also stars Jordan Small and Toby Barron as “The Monster”. Here There Be Monsters is an Australian made film about a timid and tormented school girl named Elki (played sublimely by Savannah Foran McDaniel), who falls asleep during the bus ride home and awakens to find herself at the end of the line where something lurks in the shadows of the depot. Firstly, I’d just like to say thank you to Wanderer Films and Writer/Director, Drew Macdonald (Creeper) for allowing me early access to an online screener of his 14-minute Horror/Thriller short “Here There Be Monsters”.
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