Origin (Dir. Danny Stack): A Review
Origin (2010): A Review Origin (Dir. Danny Stack) ***Please Note that this Review Contains Spoilers*** ***You have been warned*** Lee Ross and Katy Carmichael play the parents of a young man, Freddy (Jack Blumenau), whose life is upturned when their son is bitten by a mysterious creature in the local woodland. Such a logline will leave many with the impression that this will be a supernatural horror film, and the mise-en-scène would seem to support this impression. The atmospheric, eerily shot woodland, punctuated with a scream that open this short, bolt you solidly into the world. “Were you in the woods again?” Claire asks her son as he stumbles into the kitchen. “He’s been bitten,” his father observes. Through these tense, nervous observations, Stack opens his film. Katy Karmichael as Claire Holmes What follows, however, is not a movie that foregrounds the supernatural. As their son’s illness, contracted t...