What was the director thinking? What were the producers thinking? Wouldn't you want people to like your film and not turn it off? How is it entertaining to watch a black screen for the first fifteen minutes of the film and then sporadically thereafter? How annoying. It completely ruins the viewer's interest to start, at least it did for me.
I think someone like the movie Saw and thought they could make a buck too.
Weren't they just trying to build tension? I've been perplexed by the comments that the "whole thing" takes place in the dark! Not defending the dreck film, but I did see the whole thing, not just the beginning.
shareEven in the beginning, when the characters are supposedly completely in the dark, the audience is able to see them. I mean unless we're watching different movies. I just watched this on Netflix and there was no extended period of time where the screen was blank.
shareI agree the beginning was way too dark, I was almost ready to turn it off thinking it might all be like that. Maybe I still should have turned it off, didn't enjoy it very much. Besides that, it wasn't entirely blank though, maybe your TV is a bit dim.
"When death sleeps, it dreams of me."
I definitely considered turning this off at the beginning. It was interesting enough, so I'm glad I didn't, but don't view all the black screen as a smart directorial choice.
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