A Taxi Driver

A Taxi Driver

Jack may not return home, a ghost story can be deadly. It is directed by Scott McMillan and stars Christopher Wallace and Susan Sims.

Fear is the most important part of watching any horror movie, hence ghost stories are always included in the genre. The best way to scare someone is to use his own imagination against him; this film taps into all possible fears of people by telling different stories with various endings. So it’s nice that Scott McMillan went back to basics with “The Bridge” an old-fashioned spooky tale told around campfires for centuries.

McMillan captures that see sawing between logic and fear perfectly when he has Jack (Christopher Wallace) walk right down the middle of believing it cannot possibly be true but still being scared out of his wits at even the slightest chance that maybe it could be. And it works really well, because Wallace plays it like that his performance is all cracked confidence, laughing things off while communicating just how much dread sits behind each chuckle. He helps create atmosphere; he cranks up tension.

For me personally, movies are at their scariest when they let my mind create half their world for them unfortunately though, as soon as “The Bridge” starts throwing everything intended to frighten you smack dab in your face well let’s just say it loses some points with me. It’s the same problem I have with monster flicks sometimes; once you show too much of something, that thing stops being scary because now we know exactly what it looks like you’ve taken away its most powerful weapon: mystery.

So yes indeed like pretty much every other ghost story ever told on screen before or after this one once its hauntings start happening they tend to hang around too long or dumb down the mood a little bit , which does take-away from those earlier established darker notes if truth must be told .

But then again it does try to counteract that transparency with its directorial style using angles and camera movement throughout both variety and frequency wise which definitely gives us an observer’s eye kind of feel. It is almost as if it is stalking Jack in the way that it follows him very quickly adding a sense of dread. The mix can be a little too chaotic at times but you can see what they were going for, wanting to ratchet up the atmosphere.

“The Bridge” is one of those nice ghost stories that throws back while still bringing forward visually because of how it was written; this film starts off strong by making us all terrified about what could happen next (and then making our imaginations do most of work from there), but then doesn’t hold anything back towards the end unfortunately. There are some good ingredients here though strong intention, variety in direction. I think those make great building blocks for future endeavors.

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