Sssshht! Reviews

Pretty often when people notice that I’m so crazy about movies, they ask why I never tried to work in the film industry. I actually did try, about 7 years ago. Indeed, I spent a year at the NFTA (Nederlandse Film en Televisie Academy, I think they have changed the name since then and nowadays it is called the NFA) following a training as production-assistant. It was definitely a great experience and if I didn’t try this, I would probably have spent the rest of the life wondering what would have happened if it did give it a shot. Still, even though it was really neat to learn all the tricks of the game, I realized it wasn’t meant for me. Indeed, making a movie is a group effort, you have to constantly compromise with a whole bunch of people and since I’m a seriously lacking in social skills, I didn't try to further continue this career. The fact that I really didn’t connect with the other students didn’t help either. Still, during this training, I worked on 3 movies and this movie turned out to be the best one. It is rather funny because, at first, I had the least expectations about this flick. Basically, it sounded really cheesy on paper but maybe that’s why it was actually rather successful. Indeed, in the contrary to the other movies I worked on, it wasn’t pretentious at all and completely delivered what it was supposed to deliver. So, basically, it is a rather cheesy but fun horror flick with some decent special effects, especially considering the low budget (it was a student feature after all). To conclude, even thought it was nothing really amazing, it was actually a pretty good flick and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.