[Magreaux]

I believe most of the budget went into the cameras because the picture quality is crisp and filmic (though more modern filmic, not at all like 20's film), which works for the most part since there's a lot of dialogue-heavy buildup between various characters, must like the story. Towards the end, when the "action" kicks in, the few special effects they used are very gaudy and it seems like nobody made an effort to make them appear anything but gaudy (horrible green-screen, a decent stop-motion animated monster that blatantly becomes a piece of static foam rubber when something has to interact with it in real time, etc). For a while it evokes the 20's style of atmospheric horror but it turns into a 60's style giant monster movie that just happens to be silent. It's like the creators couldn't decide whether to play it straight or play it for camp. Get a used copy if you can, or just rent it.

The music's not memorable but it gets the job done well enough.