Review: ‘Visiteur’ leans hard into contagion territory
Filmmaker David Teixeira swerves with another solid entry.
The power of suggestion alone can pack enough chilling dread to run your blood cold, if don’t correctly. Filmmaker David Teixeira showcases a stern, unwavering hand in such storycraft with his new short horror film, Visiteur. Veering into tortured demonic posession, acting as almost an unearthly contagion ⏤ a timely pill to swallow in a pandemic world ⏤ the four-minute narrative banks hard on the unseen, and that’s most terrifying of all.
Visiteur follows a young woman named Emma (Emma Rodriquez), spending the evening alone, and she begins receiving cryptic and intensely creepy phone calls (hello, Scream influence!). When someone comes knocking, she learns the hard way that no matter how much you fight it, evil will come for you. It’s only a matter of time. Once again, Teixeira lures you in with sharply written script that leaves little wiggle room, and he certainly knows his way around a camera.
Visiteur doesn’t quite soar to the same stylistic heights as Play. Pause. Kill (read our review), released back in October, but it’s evident David Teixeira possesses an insightful voice in the horror film space.
IN ONE WEEK!
— David Teixeira (@davidemmanuelt) December 6, 2020
VISITEUR premieres Dec 13 on Vimeo. #DailyShortPick #FilmShortage #ShortFilm #OnlinePremiere pic.twitter.com/xNFzoAP8aH
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