d./w./p. Richard Mansfield; cast: Matthew Hunt, Kathryn Redwood,
Daniel Mansfield
When Richard Mansfield upped sticks from London to
Nottingham, he incorporated the move into this zero-budget found footager which
is vastly better than most comparable films. Hunt is believable and likeable as
Nick, a video maker who keeps his hand in with a documentary about his new
house in the couple of weeks before starting his new day-job. The Victorian
terraced cottage, which is Mansfield’s own (actually on Mansfield Street) has the
curious bumps and creaks one might expect from any vintage house, but the
weirdness on show gradually increases to moved furniture and eventually actual figures,
caught on Nick’s motion-capture security camera. Editing the footage together,
he looks for a rational explanation but can’t find one. A pleasant but slightly
creepy tarot-reading neighbour doesn’t help. With excellent use of split screen
and some nice location work around Nottingham city centre and on the city’s
trams, this is another fine slice of James-ian horror from the Mansfield Dark
label that will leave you genuinely creeped out.
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