Polaroid (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Polaroid |
| Original title | Polaroid |
| Country of production | USA , Canada , Norway |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2019 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 16 JMK 14 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Lars Klevberg |
| script | Blair Butler |
| production |
Chris Bender , Roy Lee , Michael Mahoney |
| music | Philip Giffin |
| camera | Pål Ulvik Rokseth |
| cut | Peter Gvozdas |
| occupation | |
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Polaroid is a US-American - Canadian - Norwegian horror film from Lars Klevberg from the year 2019 is based, which appeared on his 2015 short film of the same name.
action
Sarah and her friend Linda discovers an old Polaroid camera while rummaging through memorabilia from her late mother . Linda spontaneously shoots a picture of Sarah with the device. Shortly after Linda left the house, a number of scary things happened in Sarah's house, which ultimately resulted in Sarah being murdered by a monster in the attic.
A passionate hobby photographer, high school student Bird Fitcher comes into possession of this camera while working part-time in an antique shop. She takes the first photo with it of her work colleague Tyler. A few hours later he is ambushed and killed by a being in the shop. Meanwhile, Bird is with friends at a costume party where she takes a group photo of her four friends Avery, Devin, Connor and Kasey with the Polaroid camera. The celebration is interrupted when Bird is picked up for police questioning about Tyler's death. After the celebration, the hostess Avery, who took a selfie with the camera, is killed by a monster - but her death is classified as an accident by the police. When Bird finds out about this, she fears for the lives of her other friends. In anger, she throws the camera against the wall, but is thrown to the ground by a shock wave generated by the camera, while the device is not damaged in any way.
At school, Bird confronts her friends with her theory that the two mysterious deaths were related to the Polaroid photos and tells them about shadows she saw in the photos before the deaths happened. When the friends try to burn the Polaroid group photo by lighting it, the people depicted in the photo actually start to burn. Bird quickly recognizes the connection and extinguishes the burning photo, so that the flames on the friends' clothes go out immediately. Bird remembers that the device originally came with a bag and returns to the antique store with Connor, one of the friends from the group photo. She finds the bag, but is surprised by the monster and chased through the shop. Back in the safety of Connor's car, this Bird points out that Bird's reflection is visible in the photo and that she herself is a potential victim of the monster.
Mina, one of the two burn victims, is overwhelmed and killed by the monster in her hospital room. Bird and Connor are now trying to find out more about the history of the camera to find a way to escape the curse. With a clue in the camera bag, they begin their research in old newspapers and come across a series of murders from 1974 when the high school photography teacher Roland murdered three students. Letters carved into the camera correspond to the initials of this teacher and seem to refer to him as the former owner of the apparatus.
During an argument during a discussion about how to proceed, Connor accidentally shoots another Polaroid from Devin. The monster's shadow changes from the group photo to Devin's single photo. In a rage, Devin slaps a police officer who happens to be present in the face and is then taken into custody. While Devin has to spend the night in prison, Bird and Connor visit Roland's widow. She tells them that their daughter Rebecca Jane was the actual owner of the Polaroid camera. She was teased by classmates for her passion for photography and her apparatus. The bullying intensified when some classmates took compromising photographs of her. Filled with shame, the young girl hanged herself. Her father Roland then took revenge and kidnapped four students who had bullied his daughter. He killed three of them when he was finally stopped and shot by the police before the fourth murder. He died in the school darkroom with the Polaroid camera in his hand. The widow gives Bird a photo of the fourth student who was not killed.
After Devin is also killed by the monster in his prison cell, the remaining three are running out of time. Using high school records from the 1970s, Bird and Connor discover that the fourth student is Sheriff Pembroke. Sheriff Pembroke catches Bird, Connor and Kasey on the high school premises and confronts them. To end the curse, they take a snapshot of the sheriff. He tells them the true story of the Polaroid camera: actually, Rebecca Jane's father Roland had created the pornographic pictures of his daughter, the four classmates wanted to protect Rebecca Jane and take her to the police. To protect the secret, Roland kidnapped the students and killed three before the police could stop him. It was only after this that Rebecca Jane committed suicide on charges of complicity in the death of her classmates.
The monster appears and tears the sheriff's Polaroid photo in half, which actually tears the sheriff in half. Kasey is injured in an attack by the monster, Connor shoots the creature, which gives them a little head start. Bird and Kasey take refuge in the high school shower rooms, where they turn up all the showers to fend off the heat-sensitive monster.
When the monster has disappeared again, Bird goes in search of Connor. The monster attacks Connor, but before it can kill him, Bird takes a snapshot of himself and escapes into the high school basement. There she is caught by the monster, but she manages to photograph the monster herself. Bird crumples the just created Polaroid photo in her hand, which has a direct impact on the being. Finally, Bird lets the photo go up in flames, destroying the monster.
Bird later throws the Polaroid camera into a nearby bay.
production
The film is based on the short film Polaroid from 2015 by Norwegian director Lars Klevberg, who also directed this film.
The release, which was originally planned for the end of 2017, was postponed due to the scandal surrounding producer Harvey Weinstein - Dimension Films belongs to the production company The Weinstein Company - so that the film did not open in German cinemas until January 10, 2019, but as a world premiere. The film was only shown in US cinemas from September 17, 2019.
reception
Polaroid was received mostly negatively. Alexandra Seitz from epd-film.de strongly criticizes the film, judging the actors of the film as "0815-staff" and the action as "running according to the scheme". Even Christopher Diekhaus of kino-zeit.de awards Polaroid not a good note. The film seems "like a clumsy copy of the premise from the modern horror classic Ring - The Original ". Anja Wessels from filmstarts.de also criticizes the film because of "almost exclusively worn-out clichés" and a lack of "staging finesse".
synchronization
The German-language synchronization was created by RRP Media based on the dialogue book by Ralf Pel under the dialogue direction by Torsten Sense .
| actor | Voice actor | role |
|---|---|---|
| Katie Steven | Nell Pietrzyk | Avery |
| Kathryn Prescott | Pegah Ferydoni | Bird Fitcher |
| Shauna MacDonald | Daniela Thuar | Kim Fitcher |
| Tyler Young | Jannik Endemann | Connor Bell |
| Keenan Tracey | Sebastian Fitzner | Devin |
| Samantha Logan | Maximiliane Häcke | Kasey |
| Grace Zabriskie | Sabine Walkenbach | Lena Sable |
| Erika Prevost | Aliana Schmitz | Linda |
| Priscilla Quintana | Magdalena Höfner | Mina |
| Madelaine Petsch | Victoria Frenz | Sarah |
| Mitch Pileggi | Klaus-Dieter Klebsch | Sheriff Pembroke |
| Javier Botet | Jan Kurbjuweit | The Entity |
| Davi Santos | Philip Sweet | Tyler |
Web links
- Polaroid in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Certificate of Release for Polaroid . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 185330 / K).
- ↑ Age rating for Polaroid . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Polaroid. Retrieved February 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Film starts: "Polaroid": German cinema release of the horror film postponed after the Weinstein scandal. Retrieved April 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Kindly please: Horror film "Polaroid" has a German release date again. Retrieved April 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Polaroid - Coming to German cinemas in early 2019: posters and trailers - BlairWitch.de. Retrieved April 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Long-Awaited 'Polaroid' will Finally be Released in September. August 21, 2019, Retrieved April 14, 2020 (American English).
- ↑ Critique of Polaroid | epd film. Retrieved April 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Polaroid (2017) | Film, trailer, review. Retrieved April 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Filmstarts: The Filmstarts review of Polaroid. Retrieved April 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Polaroid. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous file , accessed on November 11, 2019 .