Martin (Brian Morvant) is out hunting with his dog when he
encounters something in the woods that kills his dog. He isn’t given much time to be shocked as
something out of the woods attacks him and thus begins Pod (2015).
Ed (Dean Cates) and his sister Lyla (Lauren Ashley Carter)
decide to go to their brother Martin’s house because Ed got a cryptic message
from him. Ed believes that his brother
is in trouble and that it’s time for another intervention but when they get
there they realize that Martin has completely shut himself in his house and has
someone or something locked up in the basement.
As Ed and Lyla try to bring reason to Martin’s crumbling world they
start to see and experience things that are abnormal and have them believing
that Martin may not be as crazy as he first seemed and the thing in the
basement is something unlike anything they’ve ever encountered before.
Written and directed by Mickey Keating, Pod is an interesting concept built around a family intervention
and a possible alien and sci-fi premise.
The problem is that it’s just not an interesting film which is
surprising considering that it comes from the Larry Fessenden camp who is reliable
with indie horror films (he makes an appearance in this film as well). The problem with the film is that the
characters just aren’t interesting, which is a problem with a film that relies
on its three main characters to carry the whole thing. The biggest travesty is that Carter is under
used in this film. She’s such a
commanding presence in The Woman
(2011) and Jug Face (2013) that it’s
a shame all she does in this film is wine and cry and play scared throughout
the entire running time.
Pod is a film that
had potential but instead ends up a mediocre time waster of which you will have
seen better.
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