"Dead Creek" Review - Written by Anthony T

Dead Creek
Year: 2009
Director: Mike Turner
Studio: Ill-Co Productions
Stars: Kerrin Jeromin, Taryn Hough
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Running Time: 16 Mins

"Dead Creek” is a short film that has won Best Director at the 2009 Terror Film Festival and Best Horror Short at the 2009 Fargo Fantasic Film Festival 7.

The film follows two sisters, who are haunted with the terrible tragedy that occurred, when they were children. Year’s later they visit those same woods. During that journey, they are lost in the woods of Vermont and are have to cross a vast marsh before sunrise. As the mist beings rise and darkness sets in, the sisters become haunted by ghosts from their past. If matters aren’t even worse, something mysterious is lurking in the muddy banks of Dead Creek.

“Dead Creek” is suspense and creepy short film. Director, Mike Turner does a great job making a horror film, where the atmosphere takes over and generate the scares. That is what made this film very good. He creates the atmosphere through the way the film is shot. Turner shoots this film in a way that the atmosphere is very dark. He does that, because he wants to generate the scares though the imagery that will give you an uneasy feeling that something bad is doing to happen. Besides that, Turner does a good job directing the acting performances. The two main actresses had good chemistry with each other. Turner does a good job making that actresses develop chemistry with one another to the point that they were actually sisters. If the chemistry isn’t there, then this film doesn’t work at all, when the characters are in danger.

The screenplay also delivered, a level of tension that is needed for a short like this to succeed. Turner and screenwriter Travis Kehoe did a very good job keeping my interest through considering its one of those supernatural film, where its focused on atmosphere. The reason that it works, the screenwriters do a good job developing the main characters. I liked that because the backstory got me interested in the characters and the dilemma that their in. That makes helps make a supernatural film entertaining, not very dull to watch. Another thing that they did right was to keep the story contained in one area. Buy doing that, it makes the pace of the film move good, as you’re not kept waiting for something to happen. It makes the action suspenseful and entertaining.

"Dead Creek" provides a lot of tension and some goosebumps

Review Rating: Four Stars