Don’t Move | Review by: Benjamin Garrett
A survival thriller with a singular concept, Don’t Move makes solid use of its paralyzing plot device. It doesn’t quite reach the intensity or ingenuity its premise might have allowed for, but still delivers sufficient thrills throughout its lean 90 minute runtime. How horrifying would it be to suddenly lose control of your own body? To slowly become trapped inside yourself, unable to move, unable to speak, unable to escape from danger facing you head on? The movie does a very good job conveying the total helplessness our protagonist experiences after she’s paralyzed by her captor. This is a tense game of cat and mouse, where the mouse can’t just scurry away. Relatively early on, I thought to myself “how are they going to stretch this premise to feature length without it becoming completely implausible?”. To my pleasant surprise (save for some convenient plot devices and pure luck), they pulled it off. There could’ve been a little more creativity in the situations Iris finds herse
