The film begins with a stop-motion filming featuring a doll attached to a house, which is repeated in every transition between story's. Disturbing in its style,I was never sure what the intentional meaning was behind the stop-motion, my personal interpretation was that the creature was looking for who to play with it is probably the best of XX, even better than the stories.
In total there are four short stories for a duration of less than 80 minutes. It is possible that the anthology seems a bit short in duration, my personal feeling is how much potential was wasted especially in the first short.
1)The box: the plot was very intriguing and filled with suspense, unfortunately did not have a genuine resolution. It would have been much better if they polished it and explain a little more, a good idea that never closed and maybe the absolute best in the anthology.
2)The birthday party: the only one that is a horror comedy, is the shortest of the four, it made me uninterested, boring, illogical, the final part very silly and finished with explanatory text at the end. Terrible story.
3)Do not fall: definitely this short would work better as a feature film, I would see it even if the idea was already used too much, not bad but not good either.
4)Her only living son: the background story seems to be too big for a short film, the plot is very artificial and painfully obvious on whats the inspiration behind this short story.
XX has some good ideas but never ends to take off, there is not a strong dish that really defends this anthology
In total there are four short stories for a duration of less than 80 minutes. It is possible that the anthology seems a bit short in duration, my personal feeling is how much potential was wasted especially in the first short.
1)The box: the plot was very intriguing and filled with suspense, unfortunately did not have a genuine resolution. It would have been much better if they polished it and explain a little more, a good idea that never closed and maybe the absolute best in the anthology.
2)The birthday party: the only one that is a horror comedy, is the shortest of the four, it made me uninterested, boring, illogical, the final part very silly and finished with explanatory text at the end. Terrible story.
3)Do not fall: definitely this short would work better as a feature film, I would see it even if the idea was already used too much, not bad but not good either.
4)Her only living son: the background story seems to be too big for a short film, the plot is very artificial and painfully obvious on whats the inspiration behind this short story.
XX has some good ideas but never ends to take off, there is not a strong dish that really defends this anthology