Sevens the director of girl on the third floor and stars barbara crampton as a woman trapped in a pretty boring marriage with a minister played by larry fezenden she feels like her life has been shrinking over the past 30 years but encountering the master brings her
a new sense of power and an appetite to live bolder however the change comes with a heavy body count i've been looking forward to this movie for a while girl on the third floor wasn't necessarily for everyone but i found a lot of enjoyment in that movie i thought it was extremely well directed and very unique and i wanted to see what travis stevens did with this movie also barbara crampton is a genre legend she's been in great horror films since the 1980s and i love that she has been given a lead role here and given a huge opportunity to flex her comedic muscles as well as her dramatic ones she's easily the best part of the movie this is a script that she championed for many years she read it a few years back and tried to get it made for a long time her and larry fezenden play off each other really well because at the core of the movie it's it's sort of about a relationship that's crumbling to older people who just don't really feel the passion anymore and one of them the husband doesn't really notice just how much his wife is suffering how much she feels like her life isn't worth anything she's really under his thumb and he doesn't even really notice it's one of those relationships where you can't really call him abusive but he's just not really there he doesn't understand just how much she needs and he's pretty okay with constantly talking over her interrupting her all the time so in a moment of relative weakness when she encounters an actual vampire she sees an opportunity to take hold of her life this is something i've seen a lot of directors do lately in writers is that they've basically taken something that is essentially a domestic dispute of some kind a film in which characters
just aren't getting along whether their boyfriend girlfriend or married or whatever the and introduce a genre element in fact that's how you really do the best horror movies the best horror movies are dramas that were compelling stories and you can maybe make a whole movie out of it but you're introducing a genre element to it whether it's a vampire or a ghost or a possession or some kind of thing and jacob's wife does that very well but it also wisely understands how funny it could be to see a couple that's been married for a long time suddenly feel like they have to stake people through the heart because the wife is craving blood and larry phezenden in particular does a really great job with the humor in the movie sometimes the comedic tone shifts don't always feel natural there are scenes that feel very serious and kind of important and suddenly there's a joke and it doesn't always work and sometimes it's so jarring that it actually does work and you get the laugh because you just weren't expecting it in a scene like this and it's pretty much impossible to not notice how cool it is that two older actors are getting the showcase in a horror movie where hollywood is so dominated with 20-somethings in these movies it's awesome to see these seasoned pros staking vampires through the heart and sucking the blood off of a torn off head that being said not everything about
The movie worked for me sometimes as i said those tonal shifts weren't as polished as they could be and the genre stuff that the characters do you know sneaking into an old place where there's rats and maybe two wooden crates it feels like they're limited a little bit by their budget here and trying to figure out exactly what they want to have on screen and there were a few performances from some supporting characters that weren't quite there yet just not quite up to speed yet but for the most part i really enjoyed jacob's wife because of the commentary that it presented about how a woman in marriage for so many years can feel trapped and see an opportunity to really flourish and take hold of a life that she never had before and the film is smart and that this married couple don't immediately solve all of their problems nor does one of them just immediately end their relationship they both feel like well we're at an age where we kind of have to figure this out we can't just like move on with like what are we gonna do about this and so that was interesting because it forced the husband to come to terms with how he treated her in the past a lot of times in in movies where they have messages like this whoever was being wrong is is killed or is immediately out of the picture this movie says no try to fix it make an attempt at fixing it i'm gonna give jacob's wife a b-minus yeah there's vampire stuff and blood and gore which you want to see but there was actually a surprising amount of substance and depth to the characters although the tonal shifts didn't always work and i think that could have been polished a little bit more i think this is definitely worth seeing so i took a couple weeks off uh it's been a long time since i've actually done that i've i've usually done at least a video a week for uh forever but i've actually been working on some film projects on the side and i'm really happy about that and i'm looking forward to being able to share more info with you in the future i'm sorry i can't really give you any details it's just fun stuff that i've been able to do and i'm moving in the direction i want to move in and it's it's really exciting for me
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