![]() In Saw, when we first met Hoffman, there was something that felt off about him, but his status as a detective threw a red herring at us and it wasn’t until the end that we realised how awful he was. In case the surname didn’t make it obvious, Louis is the brother of Saw series actor Costas Mandylor, and with some of the scenes of torture on display, it feels very much that this was his own attempt at Saw, but once again, it doesn’t quite work. The acting however, is fine, Ashlynn Yennie does a great job at shouldering the role, and Louis Mandylor clearly relishes playing the baddie. This tedium could be an intentional move from Daskaloff to tie into some aspects of his story, but that feels unlikely. ![]() It doesn’t present much scope for imaginative camerawork and we are left with a never ending sequence of walks up and down the same corridor. ![]() In terms of design, the set is just a couple of rooms and corridors. This means that there have already been a multitude of other films set within the walls of a hospital, and as such Antidote feels old before it has even begun. It’s common practice for independent filmmakers to keep set changes to a minimum and fashion an idea around the one place to keep costs down. It’s clear that the project was made on a modest budget with limited resources, both being likely reasons for the single location setting.
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