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This was a pretty simplistic idea of the blood of victims apparently being the cure for insomnia, as a character relays the ancient Amarian ritual regarding this to other cast members. Of course with with Mr Meyer being on the brink of losing his mind due to not getting 40 winks, all signs lead to death. I felt you could have really fleshed this out having given the explanation at the beginning. The cyclical nature of the short was decent but a murderous killing spree really needs something more to differentiate it from the others.

You could see within this film that they tried to steer away from the cliche. The cinematography was good, you can see that this group has tried to follow a movie looking approach rather than other school teams who haven't put any thought towards the shots within the film. It gave me a good jump towards the fight scene, and over all I thought it was well put together film.

Well acted from all those with speaking parts and there were some very nicely composed shots such as the crane shot outside the cafe and the dutch angle shot of the dangling feet. Not a big fan of the expository voiceover as a storytelling short cut and would have liked a more practical gore effects (only way to go) and a bit more suspense as opposed to the action scene climax. Vic Meyer cut an imposing figure mowing down the foes at the end, which wasn't really consistent with the bookish, timid character from the start of the film. Still, I thought the repetition of the card was a nice way to close the narrative.

This was a pretty simplistic idea of the blood of victims apparently being the cure for insomnia, as a character relays the ancient Amarian ritual regarding this to other cast members. Of course with with Mr Meyer being on the brink of losing his mind due to not getting 40 winks, all signs lead to death. I felt you could have really fleshed this out having given the explanation at the beginning. The cyclical nature of the short was decent but a murderous killing spree really needs something more to differentiate it from the others.