Ready to bundle up to a true thriller? QUARRIES movie **review**
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It starts off slow and quiet but eerie. It had me at the edge of my sit, I couldn’t even grab a handful of pop corn for the second time because somehow my eyes were almost firmly planted on the TV screen.
A few minutes later, all hell breaks lose and we get utterly absorbed into the horror and thriller we signed up for.
Boy does this movie know how to grab not just your attention, but every ounce of your emotions.
addictive
chilling
fast-paced
dark
sinister
pure
That start of the movie? The opening? I literally got chills that never stopped, my jaw was nearly touching the ground if my hand didn’t cover the gasp, and my eyes nearly popped out of my head. How about that for TMI of expressions.
And that’s only for the first few minutes...
A broken past doesn’t mean you’re bound to weaken or cower at a moment of weakness.
Creepy, unnerving and all too consuming start – here we go. Are you ready?
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QUARRIES - Movie Review
Directed by: Nis Taylor
Written by: Nis Taylor and Nicole Marie Johnson
More information about the movie click here IMDB
Personal movie rating - 7/10
Quarries is a stunning movie that doesn’t sugar coat
emotions and plot points. We know from the synopsis we aren’t getting a movie
with unimaginable plot twists and story lines that we never heard of before. But
that’s not all there is to a movie. Quarries has so much more!
ABOUT: Escaping her abuse boyfriend, Kat meets a group of women all with intense troubled pasts of their own. Joining forces in the wilderness, a seemingly normal journey turns it up a notch with their fight for survival.
From a personal perspective, I watch specific movies for very different reasons. Weather due to mood or looking for inspiration, two of my favorite movies could be at the polar end of what they are about. Sometimes you find a true stunner in quiet, predictable but beautifully crafted movies. Other times, you get so absorbed in the structure of the unexplained and unpredictable, that you forget your own reality. BUT each of those ends have a different impact.
With Quarries, I was found among the creativity to capture these characters internal voices, for the audience to be able SEE and try to understand throughout the 83 minutes.
Even though this movie is under the thriller and suspense
title, it goes far out of the box in drawing in the audience to a very surreal
but such an easily connective story. We think we know what is coming from both
the moving ahead of the scenes as well as the dialogue and choices of each of
the women, but, personally, unpredictability was the main factor I couldn’t
stop being surprised with.
As one of the characters Kat (actress Nicole Marie Johnson)
from the movie states:
“Emotional, physical and mental well being. Forming strong relationship with nature, oneself, family, community, and each other. These are the things that create profound change.”
I found this simple and gorgeous in
fitting into the calm of what is yet to come. The scene with this statement was
beautiful yet very dark and again, eerie. It set the stage for what you might
think is to come, while giving you the freedom to guess what these women will
go through...
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The flow of the movie was one of my favorite factors. It
then interconnected with how we viewed the characters, as it also provided an
open Wide shot into what we think we know compared to the truth. It was so
refreshing to see how we saw more information open up about each of these women’s
lives. It wasn’t anything close to shoving it in your throat, rather, the
opposite and so much more. We saw what these women were made off through the
actions that were tested time and time again.
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| Photo credit to Quarries movie IMDB Actress Carrie Finklea |
We meet these mysteries group of men that form an attraction
in killing and wiping blood off their hands as its just dirt. Even though
clearly an audience can guess who the bad guys are, the way this movie was
created made even me question why these men did what they have.
What motivated
them so much?
Why did they have that look in their eyes that both screamed
hunger for blood and pain but it never stopped from making me think they are
human too – what made them this way?
This factor made me relish in every
passing second of the movie. It sort of counter-balanced the need for the audience
to understand how the women would act in accordance to each and every attempt
at attack.
I found every moment the men were onscreen on their own, the chills down my spine intensified.
I couldn’t ask for better way to pass through a
horror film. True emotions were amplified in their own accord.
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| Photo credit to Quarries movie IMDB Actress and co-writer Nicole Marie Johnson |
The cinematography is a true art form. It had a thriller aspect to it even when
it was using nature’s purest forms. It heightened emotions by simple yet such
effective camera angles and movements. Moments were we could hear the
accelerated breathing of fear, coupled with the camera angles, it amplified the
audiences need to shuffle in a little closer, try but fail to grab that last
piece of popcorn and gasp a little louder through the sheer strength of the followed actions.
I could say that maybe I wish, personally, there was a
stronger soundtrack to enhance a few moments in the movie, but then again, the
simplicity of it, made it stronger?
The movie didn’t tell us what to think, or in a sense, show us how to act by the attribution of elements that many movies these days use instead.
Quarries didn’t rely on anything but what it was set out to be. And that counteracted with each of the audience’s individual points of view.
The many surprising elements, weather dialogue or sounds,
which are imperative to any horror and thriller movie, had me awestruck at the
end. I literally had to hover over the time remaining to see if anything was
missing. I wanted more. I needed more. And in some ways maybe I was disappointed
that this movie was so fast paced, but can that be said to mean in the best
way?!
Have you ever watched movie and strangely wanted to jump
into the screen and see what lies ahead?
That’s me right there.
Quarries showed different levels of strength.
It set the stage for what it means to fight without fear as
well as remorse.
For what it is to be afraid as opposed to be fearful of what
you are capable of.
For knowing you are broken but still know how to hold your
pieces together and survive, because there is no looking back.
For having a past that might be tainted yet it’s your past,
one that shows you how strong you never knew you were.
The list could be never
ending...
I surprised myself when I started to wipe a tear of two when the ending scene came. Not knowing how to feel, I just sat there and waited for the ending credits to keep floating up. It was such a weird feeling. I wanted this movie to have a little more edge to it, a little more of the mystery rather than the clean cut scary movie plot. But again, it didn't take away too much in the messages that it left the audience to think through.
I recommend this movie for when you feel like the only comfort you could get from watching such a calm but thriller story is from being bundle up in warmth and your very own thoughts.
Get ready for Quarries.
It might be fast paced, but are you ready to keep track with it?!
Are you ready to set your heartbeats wild and your mind prodded into every sense possible?
This thriller will have you aching for more!
Thank you Nis Taylor was directing such a great movie!
Thank you to Hyped NZ and Quarries
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