Far Horizons: Tales of Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror. Issue #22 January 2016 | Page 29

Cinema Obscura - The
Overlooked Gems of Cinema

Spring (2014)
ByJeff Durkin
Spring is a great movie. It is blessed with
actual on-screen chemistry between the leads, Lou
Taylor Pucci (Evan) and the luminous Nadia Hilker
(Louise). It has a story that is genuinely creepy,
at least until the end when there is a bit too much
exposition about what the not-quite-human Louise
is going through. The effects are good, if at times
a bit cartoonish. The cinematography is clean and
attractive and the script is well written. Add to this a
well-essayed meet-cute style romance and you have an
engaging and unique horror film.

“I’d still like to grab coffee or something,
sometime. Because I think you’re the most attractive
person I’ve ever seen. But that doesn’t outweigh that
you might be a mental patient and I gotta make sure
that you’re the kind of crazy I can deal with.” - Evan
Evan is a mid-twenty-something that life has
handed one disaster after another. The opening scene
sees him at his mother’s deathbed, as she wastes away
from cancer. It is later revealed that his father died a
few years earlier from heart failure and that Even had
to leave college to take care of his mom. On the night

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