I’m not sure I can be unbiased. Watch on Prime Video rent/buy from $1.99. Scott sees that there is a basement, and a sub-basement, and wants to explore more, but Penny persuades him to leave. "[4], Critical reception for Mr. Jones has been predominantly negative and the movie holds a rating of 38% on Rotten Tomatoes (based on eight reviews) and 38 on Metacritic (based on five reviews). Scott (Jon Foster) is a filmmaker in need of inspiration. Your email address will not be published. Unfortunately, “Mr. One tells him that he should stop his investigation of Mr. Jones, and if he sees him, he should just run away. I started watching Cam2Cam and got so bored in the first 5 minutes that I had to bail — and I never do that. All Rights Reserved. Movie Review: Blu-ray/DVD New Releases - November/December 2020. [3] While filming, Mueller was inspired by director David Lynch and the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and wanted to design the film's soundtrack to "make it feel like you’re under water, or in somebody’s head and they have a bad cold. She wants him to forget about the doll and just leave. Jones” gives rise to the debate about whether its narrative gains anything from the first-person angle, or if it might have been better served by traditional storytelling.

Scott and Penny decide to make Mr. Jones the subject of their documentary. Following a psychological attack of strange visions, Penny discovers the child totem that Scott took from Mr. Jones’ basement. She asks him for an interview but is startled when he looks a little like one of his scarecrows. The pair then finds a strange video playing on their computer that recaps their experience at the cabin from impossible camera angles. While Scott is away, Penny goes out to photograph Mr. Jones' figures. As the strange occurrences continue, Penny realizes that the nightmare world hidden in the forest is bleeding into their reality.

Day 61 – Penny has an encounter with Mr. Jones while taking photographs of his creations, but he avoids her advancements when she attempts to get closer for an on-camera interview. The scarecrows are gone from the woods. View production, box office, & … I feel vindicated in fleeing Cam2Cam. The old night never becoming day trope is one of my favorites, but it just does nothing for me here. It had its world debut on April 19, 2013, at the Tribeca Film Festival and was released to DVD on May 2, 2014. Penny tries to ask Mr. Jones for an interview but he does not respond. What he does find is that there are now stick figures in his front lawn, and even inside of his cabin. Rebirth Trailer: "Some of You Will Find This Highly Disturbing", 29 October 2015 Scott is a filmmaker in crisis. Time-lapse montages of animals in the fields and insects on the rocks are pushed to the side however, when Scott discovers strange sculptures of sinister scarecrows belonging to a masked man residing in a mysterious house in the nearby woods. She and Scott have sex before resolving to flee at first light. They go into the cabin and retrieve his backpack. After a few weeks tensions rise as it becomes obvious that the project isn't as well thought out as they had intended. PG-13 Yet for all the style that “Mr.

A flock of birds dies after thudding into the side of their cabin. Penny realizes that the elaborate totems are actually the handiwork of Mr. Jones, an urban legend amalgamation of elusive street artist Banksy and fictional apparition The Slender Man. 84 min “Mr. Scott follows the mysterious man back to a ramshackle cabin. They have come to the woods for a year to “work on their relationship,” or was it to make a documentary? The picture quality is among the best the subgenre has ever seen for a handheld camera, and sets like Mr. Jones’ secret lair are cool looking and creative with their gnarled branch scarecrows and candlelit oddities. Scott and Penny are on a road trip, and I am encouraged by the fact that they are lost. Mystery Novels and Short Stories Magazine. Time is also distorted as they experience a night that doesn't seem to end, even though their clocks indicate it should be mid-morning. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. [11] Twitch Film also gave a mostly positive review, noting that the film would not appeal to all audiences. Maybe he just ran out of of meds, having doubled up listening to 51 days of that shit. He then puts on the mask he was left with earlier and pulls up his hood, making him look quite strange and bizarre. He's uninspired, and his relationship with his wife, Penny, is not at its best. Over the years, nine random people have received packages from Mr. Jones containing his artwork. Mr. Jones (2013) Posted on April 3, 2015 by don. Jones” crushes its initially tangible concept underfoot by developing into an interpretive psychological dreamscape about a blurred line between reality and nightmare. Scott quickly finds his pack, but now it is Penny that wants to stick around and look at the grotesque figures handing in the cellar. A couple escapes to a cabin in the woods where their disturbance of strange scarecrow totems blurs the lines between reality and nightmare. Possibly some of the last act could be attributed to that, but it really only seems to cloud an ending that wasn’t sky-blue to begin with. Scott and Penny are killing two birds with one stone by doubling up their self-prescribed therapy session with Scott’s plan of filming a nature documentary in the meanwhile. Getting no answer, they go in and find a very junky house with parts of walls and the ceiling missing. Added to Watchlist. Things begin to look up when Scott's backpack is stolen and they trace the thief to a cabin not far from the one that they are staying in. | Scott confronts his evil doppelganger before he and Penny escape into the woods and confront Penny’s doppelganger, as well. NYC – While Penny stays at the cabin, Scott travels to New York to interview art scholars and other personalities about the urban legend of Mr. Jones.

At 8am, the couple realizes that it is still nighttime outside. So, decent couple, nice set-up, huge let-down in the final act. They decide to make a run for it in the morning, but by 9:30, it still is not light. Frankly, they would have been better off keeping it simple and making the sub-basement with the flaming dolls and shifting passageways be the final act. The film stars Jon Foster and Sarah Jones as a couple who go out to the woods to work on a film, but end up being terrorized by a series of increasingly strange events.[2]. He returns the doll and relights the candles in its eyes. The belt buckle on forest-set survival/slashing setups is fixing to burst and blind horror fans in one eye from the force of its flight. Scott discovers a cellar door and asks Penny to be his lookout. He was the boogieman we made up stories about to scare ourselves at night. I am again encouraged by a title card which says “DAY 1” as that always means the characters are going to start ramping up (or is it down) to Hell in a day or two. It takes more than witches to make the movie read like it wasn’t inspired by an average afternoon of “Rawhide” and “The Rifleman” reruns on MeTV. Those receiving the gifts seem to have nothing in common, but the works are valued in the six figures. Day 63 – Scott returns to Mr. Jones’ house and investigates a hatch in the basement. I’m not sure why just knocking on the guy’s door is not an option.

She runs around disoriented until she sees Mr. Jones in the distance holding a lantern. In one of the rooms he finds a figure the size of a doll, with candles for eyes. She can't reach him though, and her camera crashes to the ground.   |  Mr. Jones (2013) PG-13 | 84 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller.