Click here to read the review from Free Press Houston.
Fissure has a compelling plot, and once you get drawn into its maze like plot you know you’re watching something different than a run of the mill indie thriller.
Take a listen to an audio interview at Pearl Snap Discount, where James Macdonald and Russ Pond were interviewed.
Fissure was reviewed by the Dallas Movie Examiner. Click here to read the review.
Fissure definitely holds good entertainment value, especially if you want to watch something new and different. It isn’t very predictable or so void of clues that it makes it hard to engage you in trying to figure out the mysteries. Any hardcore sci-fi fan, however, likely won’t find it too difficult to piece it all together once some of the final clues are revealed. Fissure had its fun moments after it started intertwining realities using some very good special effects and editing techniques, especially during the portions of the movie where both the audience and the detective are aware of what’s really going on in the house. Finally, Fissure’s engaging factor is increased throughout the movie as you are slowly introduced to the details of Grunning’s condition. Effectively making the movie become more about healing the inner heartbreaks of his past, than it is about solving the mystery.
The Sci Fi Scoop website and blog has followed Fissure through all of the webisodes. Thanks guys for helping us get the word out!
Fissure follows Detective Paul Grunning (James MacDonald), a man with a tragic past who finds himself on what is meant to be a routine call out – only it is far from routine. Instead he finds himself investigating a possible murder amongst strange circumstances that force him to question his perception of reality.
We received another excellent review from Oxford Film Freak. Click here to read the article.
From the review:
What I like most about the film is that I found myself struggling to solve the mystery, no small feat as most films today are quite predictable. For Grunning, it is about second chances and suffering, as he struggles to fight his desire to focus on the past.
“Taking off the gloves.”
As part of our Fissure press gearing up for our launch of the Fissure DVD yesterday, I (Russ Pond) have been interviewed by a variety of press and news outlets. It’s been fun! I enjoy reading all the reviews, both good and bad.
This morning, I was reading a review from Casanova Shrugged. In Rene’s review, he makes this comment about me:
In a press roundtable interview at Hotel ZaZa last month I asked director Russ Pond what his follow-up project would be and he said that a children’s film was next in consideration. It didn’t surprise me in the least. Children’s films have the highest percentage of return on investment. Of course, making films is a business and you have to sell product to stay in the market, but I half-hoped Russ would have chosen to stay in the thriller genre and try to raise everything up a notch. I think Russ is a talented director and would love to see what he could do if the gloves were off, there were no punches pulled and he attacked a project without the hindrances of investor expectations, ratings, and budgetary concessions… That, I think, would be an amazing film.
I want to take the gloves off that would be fun!
Sci Fi Scoop has done a wonderful job of tracking the Fissure webisodes and providing information along our nine-week journey. As we get closer to our DVD launch date next week, you can go back and watch all of the webisodes and review the storyline. Click here to see all of the Fissure-related posts on Sci Fi Scoop.
We received a nice review of Fissure from BVS Reviews. Click here to read it.
Fissure is an intense psychological drama. I think that most viewers will react as I did; that Grunning has really lost it. Was there really a murder or not? If so, who was the killer and why? And if not, how was Grunning going to get right with himself and the world? At first I was ready to dismiss this film as so much pop psych mumbo jumbo. But by the end, I was both intrigued and entertained by the twists and turns that the film had taken. For a good murder mystery / psychological drama, Fissure is well worth watching.
Fissure was listed in the Dallas Morning News. Check out the article here.
Fissure received another excellent review from Last Stop Comic. You can read the review here.
