Fans of CW’s popular teen series Riverdale will know how good Madelaine Petsch (Cheryl Blossom) is as an actress. Well, she is coming to Netflix with her standalone movie “Sightless (2020).”
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Written and directed by Cooper Karl, Sightless is a psychological-thriller based on the short film of the same name. It follows a former violinist Ellen Ashland, who loses her sight after an attack and decides to draw out from the world to recover. Soon, she grows suspicious of the people around her, as she believes her mysterious assailant has returned to haunt her by hiding in plain sight.
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Madelaine Petsch has been remarkable with her acting in Sightless! Despite being in a monotonous setting for 90 percent of the movie, she masterfully displayed her state of terror— of not being able to see and being overwhelmed with other senses such as hearing—with the impressive use of acting skills and facial expressions, making viewers doubt their own senses for a while.
However, there’s nothing in the movie that you haven’t seen before. In fact, Sightless is a cross between Sandra Bullock’s Bird box and Elisabeth Moss’s The Invisible Man.
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The highlight of this movie is obviously Petsch’s character. She mostly relies on her caretaker Clayton (Alexander Koch) who is hired by her brother who lives abroad. He teaches her to adapt in a sightless world and urges her to increase her other sensory abilities, especially hearing.
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As she lives on with her reality, she starts to realize there’s something more to the current situation than she thinks. When she starts to communicate with her neighbors, she plunges into paranoia, believing that her other senses have started deceiving her. She begins to doubt the people around her after multiple attacks, which makes her believe that the people who are close to her are the ones manipulating the situation around her.
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Sightless features not one but two eye-treats from the popular series Riverdale. Alongside Petsch, Mathew Yang King also stars in the movie as Doctor Katsuro, who portrays a character Marty Mantle on the CW’s Riverdale.
Sightless (2020) Netflix is loaded with a lot of drama, twists and thrills, which are bound to make you question your own senses and reality! In the beginning, it makes us wonder if Ellen is getting crazy because of the situation she is currently in, or something is really going wrong with her.
With the aid of some impressive visuals and stunning camera angles, you will jump off your seat from a few jump scares here and there. The entertainment doesn’t end here; the director has tried to adapt some Hitchcockrian approaches from the likes of Rear Window and 1967’s Wait Until Dark – a psychological thriller starring Audrey Hepburn as a sightless woman being haunted by something.
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For those who have awful eyesight and rely mostly on glasses, this movie can actually be your nightmare coming to life! The movie will make you guess all the way through the ending, and keep you on your toes with all its twists and turns. You definitely don’t want to miss this one!
The spine-chilling movie Sightless is coming to our favorite online streaming platform Netflix on Wednesday, 20th January, 2021. If you’re too worn out after watching Joe Biden’s inauguration ceremony and want to see something different, you know what to stream next.
Check out the trailer here:
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