Blackbird is about a motorcyclist that wakes up in the middle of nowhere to find a young woman roaming the empty roads. He escorts her to his cabin where he nearly passes out due to a head concussion.
The film does a really good job of building up the feeling of isolation and trying to start to get the tension built up for the audience. The way it does this is by showing the emptiness of their surroundings having a drone shot showing the long road with the absence of anything along it along with the mist that is slowly engulfing them which gives it the feeling of it being like Silent Hill.
One of the problems with this piece is that in the next scene it's established that the biker has a concussion which poses the question, "how did he stay on his bike" which is something that is never explained but oh well.
In the next scene we mostly get a high angle shot looking down on the two characters as one tries to stay awake while the other sings herself to sleep. Instead of changing angles or cutting to the next scene the camera eerily stays in position making the audience feel uneasy as she falls asleep.
However this is where the film starts to go down hill, it starts to show what happened to the girl as she moves through an abandoned building until falling off a ladder and waking up to show us the biker slowly removing his top revealing some scars. Basically all that they built it is slowly disassembled as they don't really explain anything. It did have the guy do a creepy sort of movement but other then that he didn't really do much.
It had potential and all it need to do was to show something that would spook the audience like a ritual or showing that he's a monster. Alas this feel more like a teaser to a film then a full one.
Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=treWO3ys06g
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