Starring Mary Stockley, Felix Scott, Max Digby, Jason Morrell
Directed by Giles Daoust and Emmanuel Jespers
Distributed by Lionsgate Home Entertainment
Imagine if you will that one day you pick up the phone and on the other end of the line you hear a very familiar voice … your own. Shaken, you turn on your computer, and there sitting in front of you via webcam is yourself. Staring. Smiling. The thought alone is pretty friggin’ scary, and those are the scenarios you can expect to find riddled within Lionsgate’s newest release, Artifacts.
The film tells the story of Kate (Stockley), who finds herself on the run from, well, herself. It’s not just her though. It’s all of her friends, too. Each of them has his or her own murderous doppelganger to contend with. What do these other-selves want? And why is each corpse found with a small metal artifact tucked under its ribcage?
In terms of DVD extras all we get is a featurette called 100k12D: The Guerilla Filmmaking of Artifacts, and the title is pretty much self explanatory in terms of content. Sadly it always seems that movies that would benefit from having a commentary never end up getting one. Why this is, is anyone’s guess, but one definitely would have helped here.
Artifacts is a sufficient little spooker that unfortunately will have you scratching your head far more than it will covering your eyes. It’s good for a quick watch but is ultimately pretty forgettable.
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3 out of 5
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