Benny Loves Killing
Plot: Benny Loves Killing follows the struggles of a young
woman making a horror movie. As her journey continues she becomes increasingly
aware of the horror in her own life.
Starring: Pauline Cousty, Canelle Hoppe, Kristina Dargelyte
My Review and Thoughts:
This is an unsuspecting little indie drama film that grabs
you and makes you follow along. You witness the present life of Benny. She is a
student and she is making a horror film inside a horror film, on the retrospect
of the genera. She lives on a friends couch and seems to spend her time lost in
her own thoughts. Drugs, and dream states and dark thoughts cloud her days.
The filming has a style that just seems to own the lens and
creates a reality of struggle that few movies seem to be able to get right and
this film is able to do it perfect. It’s a reality based filming. You sense
tension mixed with the wonderful acting performances. This film come’s together
in a truly original style.
All I feel like saying over and over again is wow what a
little shocker, a true fascinating drama filled movie that runs through its
camera lens into the viewer’s mind. I was taken back and really shocked and
floored how good this little movie was. A complete film that sticks out and
will be remembered by this fan of cinema.
I love when directors find me and let me have the honor in
watching their films. Something I hate to do is when a director trusts me with their
film and I watch it, and sadly it's worthless and being a good movie reviewer,
you have to be honest. I am so happy that I get to share a wonderful positive
review for this film. This film deserves to be seen and I have to say this one
is one of those I feel can be something more than just a onetime viewing. This
is a twisted tale of reality. Very deep at times in facing one‘s demons and
realizing the downward spiral of one‘s life.
As I have stated a sense of reality controls this film. It’s
a film like everyday life. No square makeup plastic models, these are real
people, real everyday life and not the plastic Hollywood actors with white snow
teeth and perfect hair. You the viewer become a part of the story and apart of
each of the performances because you can relate to them and to the struggle
they are going through.
The drama is thick and the atmosphere is gloomy and haunting
in a sense. Benny lives a sad pathetic life of her own choosing as she pushes
herself from day to day from a different couch to another one.
She is nagged by her mother to do something with her life.
Mom and daughter don’t really get along both are chasing their own personal
demons.
This is Look/Think Films first full length production film
and they have a true winner on their hands. This is a cinema heart string to
cinema. It’s a film that follows the reality of the love of making cinema. The
struggles and the spiraling heartaches and tension it takes to come to terms
with one’s own inner movie. Benny’s own filmed nightmares and monsters, her own
inner horror movie, which is Benny’s reality as she slowly falls deeper and
deeper apart. Stealing, drugs and nowhere to go.
There are visually stunning moments in the movie, the dark
red shirt or coat filmed next to a gloomy atmosphere. The slow change as Benny
dresses up in wigs. Something I picked upon is Benny’s surrounding and her
daily life is like trapped in a box, it’s feels like walls are caving in. You
the viewer get a sense of claustrophobia.
There is a moment I truly fell in love with and that’s the
moment where Benny blindfolds herself with a red scarf, it’s just a pure
artistic vision caught on film. It was like a piece of art come to life.
Pauline Cousty who plays Benny deserves an award for this
performance. She held the story, the emotions and showcased a fear, sadness and
spiraling ordeal of losing oneself over the edge as life seemed to press itself
deeper and deeper into her. Cousty is able to capture a struggling artist on
the verge of losing sanity. Her demons and nightmares thick with an imprisoned
horror that only she knows and understands.
The relationship with Benny and her mother is dramatically
acted with award worthy performances that feel real, the tension and deeper
sadness and loneliness slowly come to the surface as Benny’s truth unravels and
her past demons make themselves known.
The question is can Benny find herself and pull herself back
out of the darkness or is she lost down the rabbit hole for good.
Directed and written by Ben Woodiwiss who I have to say
knows and understands how to capture a movie and to create something darker and
deeper in filming. Ben is not only just a director or writer of this movie he
is a creator of originality and a thought provoking emotional drama that is
thick upon the thinking process as the viewer watches it unfold. Ben Woodiwiss
is a true talent and he showcases a masterful skill with this movie.
This is a must see, must own and you must spread the word
about this film. I highly recommend it as a touching, haunting drama that
leaves a lingering and lasting mark upon the viewer.
A truly stunning piece of work.
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