No. 62 Night’s End (2022) 88 of 100
In the future there will be a whole genre of films that were made during lock down restrictions. Some are less obvious than other but this one is your poster boy for COVID. It’s more ‘crappy corona’ than ‘pumping pandemic’ however, and even at 80 odd minutes it was a struggle to get through it. If you have filming limitations what better central character to have than a recluse who never leaves his flat? We meet our protagonist Ken as he goes through his daily routine. He has identical bottles of drink and all his food is unlabelled apart from a tag noting what it is. He’s clearly OCD and also has a hobby of stuffing dead birds, which he receives through the post, strangely enough. He is a fledgling content creator too and we see him make several videos that give us an insight into his life, not least that he’s a divorced Dad. He’s not getting the hits however, but during a web chat with a friend he’s told that one of his dead birds fell off his shelf during a video. It’...