Horror content reviewers are very selective in their choices and there is no way you would find something randomly on their watchlist. I know my taste and I know which ones don’t sit well. And even in this day and age of excessive cybernetic augmentation, you’d be wearing a time loop movie like repeatedly playing Groundhog Day over and over and over again? I certainly do not and I know how to keep my distance. And time difference love films like The Lake House? Let’s just say they number among my top ten pet dislikes. However, this does not mean that I shy away from watching films that fall under this category of films altogether. On the contrary, I try hard to find at least one that would be worth my time and effort. Similarly, when it came to attending Alice Lowe’s next film, a directorial follow-up to Prevenge, I was both eager and doubtful. Prevenge was adequately shocking and entertaining and the production and direction were impressive so of course, I had to find out what intriguing Alice Lowe made next.
Timestalker has Agnes (Alice Lowe) pacing through ages, lifetime after lifetime which includes the 1800s, the 1980s, and every grey decade in between to the current time. In each of her reincarnations, Agnes spots a familiar face: Alex (Aneurin Barnard). Their strained, and often one-sided affection, spanning their respective lives, is remarkably terrific. While in the search for affection, as expected, Agnes becomes the target of an embittered partner, this time thanks to Nick Frost. Are Agnes and Alex capable of finding a love that is almost like destiny for them?
Also, this aspect will be best appreciated if I point out that there’s been time travel of some sort in these dams than most. That is not to say, though, that this is a time travel movie in the more conventional sense: history revisal is usually only in verbal sloth. There’s an abundance of topics that concern Timestalker and narrative structure is one of the most interesting ones. Lowe continues by saying that normally, directors would create scenes enabling the audience to see the time that they’re in. Thus, some movies have issues like explaining the timeframe. Instead of making us giddy over something unusual but insignificant, viewers are allowed to accept one of the things Lowe states in the final third of the film. This is doubtful to many, but it is entirely feasible that directors who believe in love also believe in every other element in Lowe’s artistry.
Lowe struck gold with her casting and brought on board multiple British A-List actors. First and foremost: Alice Lowe. Lowe is brilliant in the lead role, a character which I imagine she wrote for herself, and quite right too. Her comedic timing is second to none, although she does love to be the punchline.
Scipio (Jacob Anderson) is very well developed as a character who nearly acts as the audience’s conscience. I must admit, Jacob Anderson is not only very handsome, but he is also very charismatic on screen and enjoyable to watch. He can play background roles and when required, stand out. Then there is Nick Frost. Despite the fact that he is chasing Agnes and getting out of breath or snarling like a dog, it is simply impossible to not laugh at his role at times or almost shout in surprise. Obviously, Kate Dickie in whatever she is presented is always fun.
A pair of people introduced Timestalker. One of them is Caryn Coleman, from The Future of Film is Female, who had something truly remarkable to say about Timestalker. As always in today’s world, there will be arguments if this one is a horror or a sci-fi movie but in Coleman’s words, ‘It’s a horror film about love.’ I could not say it any better.
This is not a standard horror movie by any means. It is a deconstruction of horror itself. If the desire to love or be loved were considered a ‘sin’, how desensitized have we become? In the current climate where vice-president nominees label you ‘less of a person’ for yonot having kids or being married by a certain age, ‘love’ feels like an insult. There is a statute of limitation, and if your love does not fall within that limitation, then you are wrong. Disgraceful.
Timestalker makes a delightful and entertaining decomposition of what is. I am not sure if this movie will work to everybody’s liking but I am around 80% sure certain groups (with the help of the vice-president nominee and her fans) will take the message in the entirely wrong context. But people who get this film. Would get this film. Those are the very people Alice Lowe wanted to make this film for.
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