Sutton's Case

Protagonist Edward Sutton's narration tells us that that he is a detective at the local police department; since an injury on the job he has been off work. He has also become addicted to the painkillers he takes to treat his injury. He lives in a rundown apartment with his wife who is away on business. On the TV he hears a report about a child being kidnapped and the weather forecast warns of an approaching storm. He starts to hear noises coming from the basement and starts to investigate; what he finds convinces him that an horrendous crime took place there.

The central plot of this seventy seven minute long film is intriguing. For most of the film we are with Officer Sutton and see the story as he narrates it... how reliable a narrator he is isn't clear. He may be telling the truth as it happened; he may be paranoid, delusional or just lying... which of these is the case doesn't become apparent till the end... my assumption as to which changed more than once. This plot kept me interested although there are clear problems; much of the film is overly dark and the acting is fairly average. There are plenty of twists as the story reaches its climax not all of which were expected. Overall I thought it was decent enough considering I've heard of nobody involved in the production and it is clearly very low budget... so, not great but had enough to keep me entertained.