Review: Significant Other
Somewhere in the woods of the Pacific Northwest, something out of the sky lands and a creature springing forth from it attacks an unawares deer. Meanwhile, a happy young couple (Maika Monroe and Jake Lacy) are ready for some camping in those very same woods. It will be their doom. This 2022 sci-fi/horror offering from co-writer/co-director team Dan Berk and Robert Olsen ( “Stake Land II” , “Villains” ) seems to have been pretty well-received by those who have seen it. I was enjoying it too, for about 40 minutes or so. Unfortunately after about that point, things go horribly wrong for the film. Or at least my enjoyment of it. On the plus side, the directors give us an eerie sense of dread at the outset, with the direction/cinematography really putting emphasis on those tall trees. It’s quite unsettling, actually. It’s a well-shot, and particularly well-lit film. It was being eerie and tense whilst really more of a sci-fi film than a horror film. In fact, if anything...