Nocturna: Side A - The Great Old Man's Night

Made me cry at the end but it was forcing the sentimentality and drawing it out, which was annoying. Maybe this is just me but I find when a film has a perpetual soundtrack playing the music becomes a distraction and the film comes off as amateur and the dialogue contrived to affect you. Like why would the characters act in one way and then they're close together whispering sweet sad things in minutes. This is not a conventional horror movie, and personally I wouldn't consider it horror at all but Shudder does, I guess the horror of aging, forgetting and death. The film also comes off a lot like a play. Handful of charaacters and dialogue-heavy and few changes of scenery. My experience with a relative with Alzheimers wasn't romantic like this, it was instead incredibly disturbing and woukd make a film more horror oriented unless my relative was additionally irrational from Parkinson's and medication she took. Anyway, don't expect much horror even psychological, and it will probably make you cry.

If you don't think this is horrifying, just wait until your parents are getting close to death and you fully understand you will be there one day as well. A random dude with a knife is way less scary than dementia, denial, and regrets. The acting by the main character was phenomenal! Could have easily been a half hour shorter but was beautifully shot.

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This is an unexpected gem. One of the best movies I have seen offered on Shudder.

It goes without saying the synopsis should prepare you for the reality of this very sad but brilliant movie. A look into getting really old and how surreal and hard it is, I didn't go in expecting full on horror but damn this was good just so real and honest. Not for everyone more like a statement.