HEX: The Death Follows You Horror in Paradise
- Joyce Mendonça
- Oct 7, 2018
- 1 min read
Hex, directed by Rudolf Buitendach (Selling Isobel, Where The Road Runs Out) brings us a psychological horror with a twist, something unusual in this genre.
All starts as a typical romance between two young backpackers that meet in the paradisiac Cambodia’s landscape. But soon everything will fall apart into a no way road, Amber (Jenny Boyd) with her mysterious aura seduces Ben (Kelly Blatz), but there’s an underline she is possessed by a dark entity.
All ingredients are set for what happens to be a great horror story that relies more in its plot and characters than in over the budget special effects, that’s when beauty happens, and the viewer follows the writer’s journey in this case made it possible by Christian Piers Betley and Rudolf Buitendach.
Both lead actors’ performances give the amount of realism needed for the public to buy on the surrealistic drama their experiencing.
Jenny Boyd plays brilliantly the seductive condemned or not so much heroine, shifting effortlessly from light to dark emotions and taking Ben and the audience under her spell.
The film explores supernatural, spirituality, cultural believes and duality through the eyes of love infatuation and its willing power to keep that feeling.
Hex had its world premiere at Raindance Film Festival 2018
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