Dark Resonance (2016) User Reviews (3)

I see shadow people

[nogodnomasters · 4/10 · 5 August 2017]

Three friends engage in geek experiments in 1966 while the sound track plays Orleans riffs (1976) to set the era. It then jumps 15 years later when Eric (Jeremy Carr) is helping Benjamin, a young boy (Lawson Cross) visited by aliens at 3:33 AM. He enlists the help of his two mates Frank (Joseph Gray) a geek and Dana (Vanessa Ore) who supplies us with a nude torso painting with alien hands on it. They end up in a warehouse, and Benjamin? The film was low budget, and struggled with special effects, but managed. The acting wasn't there and the plot didn't give closure. The clip after the credit run proved interesting, letting us know the best part of the film was to come and was cut out. That is where the film should have been at 30 minutes, instead of wasting time over developing character. Was those Elwood Blues looking guys supposed to be androids or Elwood Blues? The dialogue was tired. The piano in the sound track didn't make it. On the plus side I never saw a microphone and they seemed to have beaten the sound issues that plague small indie.

The production was filmed in North Carolina. There was a store owner that had an thick accent, the rest of the actors did not.

Guide: No swearing, sex, or nudity.

If You Know Statesville, NC, You Might. . . .

[markkbranson · 3/10 · 30 October 2017]

My "3" score is due to the fact that I do know Statesville and I am a current resident in NC. These two facts are the only reason I scored this a three. The acting is uniformly bad. The SFX are cheesy or absent. The directing seems aimless, e.g. what is the point of this film? And the sound is not aligned with the action (or I should say, non-action, on screen.

I did not bother to research the actors here because I can't imagine they have a huge filmography. One guy, Jeremy Carr (he plays Eric), looks familiar but I can't place him in any movie I've seen. Vanessa Orr (Dana) I seem to recall from "Vampire Diaries," but one more her acting is imminently forgettable. Thus the acting does not recommend this film.

The SFX simply consists of bright lights, electronic sounds, a blue tinted severed arm (which would be nice with my Halloween decor), and an exploding head which looks like a rubber mask afterwards. Once more, the effects do not recommend this film.

The direction and writing seem to remind more of Pirandello than a movie worth your time. There is a plot--but why? What is the take away? What does the director/screenwriter want me to see as the theme here? Or is this entire film designed as parody (think "Return of the Killer Tomatoes" )? It does not use the product reference as "Tomatoes" did, but this film seems so aimless, I don't know what else to make of it.

Lastly, the soundtrack. Jeremy Carr (the same guy who plays Eric in this film) is credited being involved with the film under the heading of "The New Disruptor." Perhaps his acting influenced his time so he just threw some musicians together and they jammed and then happenstance the music appears in the film. I have to confess I don't see much of a creative hand in the scoring. So don't think you will find any thing enjoyable with the music.

Bottom line: if you are from NC and certainly if you live in Statesville, NC, you might want to check this film out to see if you recognize any one or any of the locations. However, if you live anywhere else on planet earth (or in some parallel universe which is one suggestion from this film)--don't bother wasting your time. Nothing else recommends this movie to you!

Sci-fi concepts without a budget

[Leofwine_draca · 2/10 · 19 May 2018]

DARK RESONANCE is another local sci-fi flick shot on an indie budget. The concepts covered are big, but the story is entirely small scale and the lack of money means that there's no proper story, special effects, or any kind of incident. The subject matter is certainly esoteric but the execution is very poor, all talk, talk, and more talk in the form of boring exposition. The lack of character development hurts it too.