Exam is a quite enjoyable closed-room thriller with some scifi murmurings. 8 candidates have nearly completed the selection process for a vacancy at a shadowy bio-chem firm and are lead into a room to complete their final exam, as you'd expect it's not a multiple choice quiz so they tentatively start working together but as the clock ticks down tensions and paranoia come to the fore. It's not exactly an original plot & the pandemic background story felt a little shoehorned in but otherwise it's a reasonably acted, intelligent thriller that eschews gore for the brains.
Let's Scare Jessica to Death is a nice little chiller from '72. Fresh from the funny farm Jessica & husband move to island fruit farm? but she soon struggles to maintain her sanity faced with strange whisperings, scarred local types, a slutty squatter and a house that's a touch spooky in this cheap but atmospheric film - I guess the obvious comparison would be Salem's Lot but it's more about the ambiguity of her experiences, helped by a strange zonked out performance by the lead.
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