Replace (2017)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first relese: 2017
	Director: Norbert Keil
	Actors: Rebecca Forsythe, Lucie Aron, Barbara Crampton
	Country: D, CDN
	Genre: Horror
	Conditions of visioning: 01.06.2017, Cinemateca Capitólio Petrobras, FANTASPOA2017
Synopsis: Kira Mabon (Forsythe) feels a bit lost in her own appartment. She meets her neighbour Sophia (Aron) who convinces her to go see a doctor about a skin dryness that creeps up her hand.
Review: The director Norbert Kiel couldn't make the trip to present his movie at the Fantaspoa 2017 Festival, but the writer/producer Richard Stanley (director of the 1990 Hardware honored at the Festival) did. He told us that 99% of the screenplays he writes never get shot (I think 90-95% may be more realistic), that he wrote this one for David Cronenberg (the 80's Horror classics Scanners, The Fly and Videodrome and more recently A History of Violence) thus the setting in Toronto, but that it ended up being shot mostly in Munich, Germany (the indoors scenes I guess because I recognized only one set outside). Other anecdotes: he wrote under a female alias to sell it more easily (you barely see one guy thus the girls-movie tag attached) and included an intense sex scene that ended up being edited out. He revealed that it is nowadays quasi-impossible to show a sex scene in a movie while they are everywhere on TV (see Game of Thrones for example), go figure. Finally he confessed the influences of the director: Dario Argento for the visuals and John Carpenter and Claudio Simonetti (from Goblin) for the soundtrack, which indeed reminds of the work of those composers. Now about the movie experience itself: I liked the story of body in decomposition and what it forces the main character to do. The final revelation is also well-placed and I liked the ending. What I didn't like is how the main character keeps everything to herself and reacts in a way that I rarely understood. Those many scenes of watching her wandering around and not understanding why spoiled a bit the movie for me, but it still is a nice little creepy flick.
Rating: 5 /10