I have a friend staying over this weekend (at the time of writing), so trying to keep my blog work to a minimum I decided to grab a random short horror film from YouTube to review. While Look Up 2 might not win any points for originality, it does however win points by me for not featuring the typical jump scare ending so many films of this type seem determined to include.
Confusingly, while it's titled Look Up, the actual short itself starts with the title card of Look Up 2. Not being able to locate this on IMDB I couldn't confirm the actual title of this one. One dark night a man discovers a strange photo in his apartment. It shows a strange creature squatting on top of a wardrobe, which the man realises with horror is his own wardrobe. Having to check, he is relieved to discover there is nothing there, and soon he falls asleep. Waking up at some point later, he is startled to see the creature has vanished from the photo...
At four minutes this tells a concise story effectively. I thought the protagonist came across as looking stoned rather than scared, but aside from that it was fun to follow where this was naturally leading up to. Personally I would have had the apartment have more detail to it, the wardrobe was white, as was the walls behind it, making it appear very nondescript, so I didn't immediately assume it was taken from his home. Still, the make-up on the somewhat generic looking creature was cool, and this did work well as a little slice of horror. Look Up 2 can be viewed on MKofficial, which is the YouTube channel of Murat Kiziroglu.
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