“I meddled with issues Man should go away alone.” This well-known quote is from James Whale’s 1935 The Invisible Man. That musing by the dying Claude Rains poses a warning that individuals do the unthinkable in style movies. No sane particular person would stroll into an unlit cave or open a grave, but it occurs, and audiences get the scares. In Genevieve Rises, a younger working man, Jeff Gates (Nicholas Michael Jacobs), reads from a guide manufactured from flesh with the duvet of a lady’s face unleashing an evil drive.
Writer, director, editor, and actor Jacobs offers us a horror providing that runs simply 13 minutes. The younger filmmaker provides to what was began within the longer movie titled Genevieve. The titular character has additionally been in a collection of extra shorts like Genevieve Strikes Again and Genevieve Wreaks Havoc.
“…reads from a guide manufactured from flesh with the duvet of a lady’s face unleashing an evil drive.”
In this image, Jeff has returned from work to search out his girlfriend gone, a lot to his shock. He tries to get her on the telephone, leaving plaintive messages. Unsuccessful, Jeff indulges in a drink or two. Wandering downstairs, he discovers an odd guide in a field of his girlfriends’ possessions (no pun supposed) held collectively by stitches with the visage of a lady. Flipping by the guide and studying aloud passages unleashes the close by determine of Genevieve (Alan Maxson), who assaults. Not earlier than, in true EC Comics custom, you get the girlfriend warning him to not learn from the guide in a voice message.
Genevieve Rises includes a good shot choice and a broody color pallet of browns and woods with some shadow. The unwitting star is the doll who springs to consideration and growls in a lot the identical manner because the figures do within the Full Moon Puppet Master collection, solely not as articulated. Genevieve is a supernaturally possessed doll with mayhem and homicide on its thoughts. There are some fascinating moments when the display goes darkish, leaving simply the taunting voice of Alan Maxson. The torment drives Jeff to seize a knife, which in some way doesn’t work very nicely.
Shot on video with POV pictures, blackout results, and well-attempted sensible gore and make-up results, Genevieve Rises makes you wish to see extra of the story. One desires to fulfill the girlfriend who owns such an evil guide. Just bear in mind, it doesn’t matter what, don’t learn it out loud.
