Chelsey Weber-Smith

Chelsey Weber-Smith

Favorite films

  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  • The Blair Witch Project
  • Drop Dead Gorgeous
  • Mulholland Drive

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  • 12 Feet Deep

    ★½

  • Frozen

    ★★

  • Fall

    ★★★

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  • 12 Feet Deep

    12 Feet Deep

    ★½

    You might think a person can’t possibly make a movie about two women getting accidentally trapped under the glass cover of a public pool on a holiday week when the building is closed, to which I respond, yes they can, but only if there is an ex-con on parole who works after hours and sees them struggling under the glass but decides to creatively extort them instead of save them. Expect the interpersonal low stakes high melodrama you love from the low budget survival thriller boom.

  • Frozen

    Frozen

    ★★

    It’s hard to know who this movie, and the survival thriller genre in general, is actually for. Cartoonish misfortunes plague an already bleak situation as genuinely heart-pounding scenes are interspersed with the kind of comically serious melodrama only possible when straight people are left unsupervised (this time stranded on a high chairlift that won’t be moving again for a week). The plot of 2010’s Frozen is like if a teacher asked a high school English class to write a hip…

  • Fall

    Fall

    ★★★

    A genuinely scary and death-defying puzzle balanced 2,000 feet in the air, Fall is a thiller worth the watch purely for its audacious insanity. While two old friends must figure out how to save themselves from falling to their death, the audience must figure out if eating a vulture raw is the one true antidote for a broken heart.

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