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The Hive
by David Yarovesky
This movie has a rather confusing title. It doesn’t really give away what it’s about, but in the end what matters is that it’s a stylishly put together 90 minutes of inventive horror. As if there aren’t enough sub-genres within the horror genre, The Hive has been characterised as “amnesia horror,” but it does make sense.
The story follows Adam (Gabriel Basso), a young man who wakes up alone in a dark room with no memory of who he is or what has happened to him. Soon he begins to find clues that he left for himself before losing consciousness and focuses all his efforts on patching together who he is and putting his flickering memories into order. What makes things even more complex for him, and interesting for us, is that these memories and flashbacks don’t belong to him.
But wait, there’s more.
His determination to figure out what’s going on in his head will ultimately culminate in a battle for survival as a deadly virus stirs up waves of paranoia among those it infects.
What’s exceptional about The Hive is that even though it’s rather light on gore director David Yarovesky, clearly inspired by the Evil Dead franchise as you’ll see many of its elements in The Hive’s suspenseful sequences, managed to create a gripping and quite tense atmosphere. Unoriginal yes, but, boring? No.
At times weak and certainly flawed, Yarovesky’s movie is unexpectedly enjoyable and even though it might not have an extended shelf life, it’s a horror movie worth a watch.
Maria Kriva, HMS
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