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A mute photographer - and serial killer - is trapped in his own house with ghosts and his guilt, but Film Brain has some words about this middling effort.

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00:00A murderer is tormented by his guilt in the horror film The Deserving, directed by S.S.

00:05Aurora.

00:06Venkat Saigunda is a mute photographer, but he's also a serial killer, and he finds

00:11himself trapped in a time warp alongside the ghosts of his victims and his own past.

00:17The decision to make the main character non-verbal is a very peculiar one that the movie doesn't

00:21properly explain.

00:23He speaks throughout the entire film using sign language, but he himself is not deaf.

00:28This actually introduces more problems because it puts far too much weight on the physicality

00:32of his performance, and the dialogue from the other characters is largely exposition

00:36to explain things that he can't say.

00:39The house effectively becomes his prison, and this no-budget movie makes effective use

00:44out of camera and editing tricks to disorientate the audience.

00:47But even at just 74 minutes, this feels like an overstretched short film not helped by

00:52pedestrian scares, as well as the fact that the ending was so obvious I literally guessed

00:57it almost instantly.

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