Cieśnina Block Island

This promising mystery with an interesting location unfortunately ends up making a worn-out X-Files point. Even the characters behave like those in the debut works of less attentive and less detail-oriented filmmakers. The names in the closing credits will bring you the realisation that this is a matter of friends and family getting together to make a movie. A weaker three stars. (30.06.2021)

A nice little island mystery and a very good debut by the McManus brothers. An interesting premise about the mysterious mass deaths of birds and fish, spiced up with a pinch of conspiracy theories and paranoid blather, and a mentally broken protagonist, all leading to a nicely escalated climax through a few creepy horror scenes with a dad. I like this mysterious stuff set in remote places, and I also like what came out of this one. The ending is a bit too literal perhaps, but nicely put together. (11.03.2021)

Unfortunately, The Block Island Sound is another drama playing at horror that is so dreadfully dull and uninteresting that it downright hurts to watch. The story takes place on an island where strange things start happening, but strange doesn't necessarily mean interesting. Fish and birds are dying massively and people don't know what to do. It's kind of mysterious and about two scenes are a slightly creepy, but it's more about family relationships, conspiracy theories, and all sorts of mumbo jumbo that ultimately annoyed me more than interested me. If at least Ctulhu or some other Lovecraftian monster came out of the sea, but in the end nothing happens, and proof of that is the body-count of one. When I looked at the timer thinking it would be over in ten minutes and learned that I still had forty-five minutes left, it was really hard no to go cook something or sleep instead. Anyone who likes slow cheap movies where nothing happens but has atmosphere will be satisfied. 4/10. (12.03.2021)