Coherence 2013 Written and directed by James Ward Byrkit.
A group of old friends get together at a house the night a comet is due to pass over. It's all personal chatter and backstory until the weird stuff starts happening. The lights going out seemed normal to seeing yourself in the street. They figure out that the comet has created a rift between parallel universes. They discuss the other selves, whom they're really bothered by. One guy is much more disturbed than the others, to the point of violence, he really wants to kill them before they come for him. Some of the rest of the group turns violent as they try to deal with all that's going on.
It was a lot better than some of these small budget films with people talking and talking while little happens. It was shot in 5 days with $50,000. Even with that tight a budget, there's a bit of physical action, some fairly good actors, and a decent script. Nicholas Brendon and Elizabeth Gracen were the only ones in the cast that I knew. I'd think it's leaning more to being a horror movie than an SF film but that's OK, I'm running out of unseen SF films to see in general, I can't afford to be picky. I don't think I'd need to see it again.
These three films are all from Amazon Prime. It's the only way to keep up with the slightly newer SF films. I've near enough stopped buying DVDs, I have my favorite titles already and often I don't want to take a chance on something I don't know about. I'm not getting out to the used stores to check for cheap discs that I can take a chance on and the postage rates from the UK have gotten too expensive for me.
In Bright Axiom 2019 Director Spencer McCall co-wrote the script with Geordie Aitken, Farouz Gipson and Wylie Herman.
Some artist types think they should start a space for artists to flourish, or some such. People are invited to the mysterious society housed in a weird building. It's more like a cult but the guys behind the group say it's not a cult. It fails quickly, the organizers don't really have any idea what they are doing. The story is told in documentary style. It's not that interesting and not really SF. I wouldn't want to watch it again.
Empire Of The Sharks 2017 Written and directed by Mark Atkins. Produced by The Asylum.
In this Waterworld type film some people in a tiny floating village are up against the warlord John Savage. His minion isn't happy with the tribute from the village and he takes some women as prisoners. The slaves are forced to work powering a machine that takes the salt out of water so they can drink it. Some of the villagers form a plan to rescue the women. They hire some scum who fuck things up for a while but eventually they got eaten by sharks so I laughed.
It's about the usual level of quality of the average film from The Asylum. It's not something I would watch again, not that I should have bothered in the first place, but I was happy to have it on in the background as I sorted stamps.
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