David Prior
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Directed by David Fincher
influenced The Empty Man (2020)
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To be fair, writer-director Prior (best known for his behind-the-scenes documentaries of David Fincher movies like Zodiac and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo ) demonstrates plenty of artistic flair, but he needed to channel another David – Lynch – in order to add the surreal-edge that might have lifted this wretched disaster.
Prior, who previously worked making short, behind-the-scenes documentaries for feature films like David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , seems to be channeling Fincher on The Empty Man .
To be fair, writer-director Prior (best known for his behind-the-scenes documentaries of David Fincher movies like Zodiac and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo ) demonstrates plenty of artistic flair, but he needed to channel another David – Lynch – in order to add the surreal-edge that might have lifted this wretched disaster.
The Empty Man somehow feels derivative—a terrifically terrifying scene in the woods certainly apes Ben Wheatley’s Kill List —while at the same time being unlike anything you’ve ever seen.
…makes him look a bit like the Empty Man (or Liam Gallagher at an Oasis gig)…
Running an overlong two hours and twenty minutes, “The Empty Man” – probably the bastard cousin twice removed from “The Bye Bye Man” or “Slenderman,” not good company – is a total bore.
Overall, the movie definitely rises above cheap quickies like The Bye Bye Man and Slender Man , which tried to cash in on similar "urban legends."
Films like 2002’s The Mothman Prophecies, 2014’s It Follows, or even David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows follow-up, 2018’s Under The Silver Lake.
A movie that makes Fox’s polarising and similarly-confounding A Cure For Wellness now look like a masterpiece and “almost” make you yearn for the simpler “delights” of the much-derided Slender Man , The Empty Man really emphasises how bare the Covid cinematic cupboard must be while the studios wait for the pandemic to die down.