I stumbled on this movie on hulu.com the other week, shortly after I got out of the hospital. It’s a sci-fi/action film by a small group in Colorado, actually not far from where I live.
It’s rather low budget: the fight scenes are rather jumpy, but I thought they did a pretty good job with them anyways. The filming itself is… odd, I’m not sure how. A bit bright in parts, fuzzy I guess. I liked it though, rather made it seem dream-like. The plot is rather confusing: they throw you into it, and only explain things as you go along.
In the film, there is the world, and there is the dreamworld. When people go to sleep, Storytellers and Incubi (types of spirits of the dead) come and give dreams and nightmares respectively. From the dreamworld comes Ink, who kidnaps a young girl to give as a sacrifice to the Incubi in hopes of becoming one of them. Storytellers set out to save the girl, but they must also save her father in the waking world.
The film is sad, even painful as you watch the father’s down-spiraling, but eventually you realize what the film is actually about: family, love, hope and second chances. I gotta say, having just gotten over a suicide attempt, and still feeling very melancholy and hopeless, this movie made me feel… well, hope.
You can watch it here.
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