“Neverlost” is one of those films that I wasn’t interested in seeing. It didn’t feel like my type of film. But things changed, when I saw the trailer on the “Rewind” DVD and the fact that it won the Audience Award at the 2010 Fantasia Film Festival. It looked like my type of film. There’s an old saying “Never judge a film, by the box art. This leads me to this film.
The film follows Josh Higgins, a man whose life has crumbling after the death of his high school sweetheart in a house fire. He takes a simple pill that is supposed to help with his insomnia and depressions. Instead, the pill takes him out of his current life to the one that he lost years ago. Now the walls that have plaguing his life are now closing in on him. Josh must find a way to save himself, his high school sweetheart and the parallel life that he must not get lost in.
“Neverlost” is a very well crafted psychological horror film. It reminds me a little of Darren Aronofsky’s “Requiem of a Dream” and “The Butterfly Effect”. Both films have psychological elements that shock you like this does.
Chad Archibald does a very good job with the direction and the screenplay. One of the things that make the direction very good was the way that Archibald handles the film’s tone. I liked, the way he’s able to keep the story very dark through the images and the performances. You feel like your right there watching the main character’s descent into madness through the entire time. It makes the action and the story very dark and gripping. You need to have an edge like this film has to make it successful. The other thing I liked was the way that the film was shot. Archibald makes the real life scenes very dark and dreary and the most of the fantasy like scenes feel like it’s coming from the main character’s mind. That’s what makes the shots feel very effective. If there was one thing that I had a problem with, the fact the film moves at a slow pace. A few of the scenes felt very long but I’m willing to forgive that, since it built up the psychological parts of the film.
Archibald’s screenplay is also what made this film good. He focuses on the character’s state of mind throughout the whole film. It really lets you see the character, as his life is crumbling. Archibald does that through the characters narration and development of the character. That’s what makes the character interesting. If you aren’t interested in the character then this film isn’t going to work for you. The other thing that I liked about it was the fact that it also examines the relationships that the character has with the other characters that are based in reality. The screenplay does a good job showing the effects of his illness as its taking its tolls on the people that care about him. By doing that, it shows the severity of his problems. It helps make this film more of a character study.
“Neverlost” is a very well crafted psychological horror film that keeps you interested in the story and makes its characters interesting.
Review Rating 4 Stars
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