Although it's basically the entire reason I fell in love with him as a filmmaker in the first place, it was quite interesting to watch a film from Sam Raimi that didn't even have a hint of his trademark silliness and instead as the title promises takes a more stripped back approach to it's storytelling.
It's good old fashioned psychological tension building fuelled by a concoction of paranoia, greed and guilt that kept me gripped from beginning to end which proves that Raimi is just as good at crafting drama as he is at schlock.
Although it's basically the entire reason I fell in love with him as a filmmaker in the first place, it was quite interesting to watch a film from Sam Raimi that didn't even have a hint of his trademark silliness and instead as the title promises takes a more stripped back approach to it's storytelling.
It's good old fashioned psychological tension building fuelled by a concoction of paranoia, greed and guilt that kept me gripped from beginning to end which proves that Raimi is just as good at crafting drama as he is at schlock.
