Nightfur

USA • 2011 • 86m •

• Directed by: Jason Corgan Brown. • Starring: Jeter Rhodes, Jana Danae, Creighton Barrett, Phil Brooks, Callan Curtis, Lisa Jo Glass, Meredith Glass, Matt Groller, Sarah Penrod. • Music by: Jason Corgan Brown.

An introspective astrophysics major visits a remote lab to work with his mentor, Dr. Roberts. After his arrival, he finds that a young woman from the metaphysical side of the fence has been taken in by the doctor. She is found to be sensitive to a mysterious signal coming from the depths of space.

Review:

Kiosk rental is the graveyard filler for many movies that couldn't make it anywhere else. Cast of three with no previous acting experience supported by very brief half dozen others with zero experience in their resumes. No subtitles with poor audio and enunciation making it difficult to follow the dialogue. Not that it mattered since lines seldom exceeded five words with interminably long pauses between each line as if people were either reading an off screen teleprompter or couldn't memorize beyond five words. Lines consists of lots of pop science terms like "equation"; space time; dark matter and energy - latter ideas not present in the 60s.

Setting and props consists of a contemporary rural home filled with 60s era science equipment e.g. ohmmeter, oscilloscope, circuit boards, cathode tube monitor. Computers gave off beeping sounds as lines of code scrolled resembling 60s B grade scifi. Add cheap prop of flasks & beakers filled with colored water; lots of yellow cable and tubes running in and around the house that do nothing but look yellow. Intent was to represent electronic monitoring and hydroponic feeding of plants & trees. Lots of scenes of an oscilloscope test signal - means nothing, but looks cool. The hooking of a single alligator clip between plant root and ohmmeter doesn't work. Bizarrely, a Swarovski glass prop ball was added so that 90s era popular feng shui and qi would add a mystical element. Fits with the lawn pyramids.

Storyline had something to do with two pseudo-scientists who find a girl sitting in the woods who claims to telepathically communicate with space beings so they hire her to sew burlap bags for their plants? We briefly, thank goodness, see her anti-science boyfriend who likes to cut the yellow cables and disrupt science. Final scene is of a really bad Photoshop style CGI of floating white sphere covering girl supported by plastic covering the lens. Girl and scientist ride off on their bicycles.

Final thought, bad script and a storyline that made no sense and equally bad acting and equally bad props but it has a nice photo on the DVD cover - caught me!

Review by westsideschl from the Internet Movie Database.

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