A disgraced journalist (Lily Sullivan) housesits her affluent parent’s home while they are away to concentrate on producing a podcast in the hope of salvaging her career. Soon, an email comes through, compelling the ‘Interviewer’ to investigate the strange appearances of mysterious little black bricks.

Shot in the Adelaide Hills, the movie is a psychological sci-thriller in the mould of classic H.P. Lovecraft. Our Interviewer embarks on a journey that takes her to the edge of her sanity, investigating cases of mysterious appearances of small black bricks that cause their owners to experience existential feelings of dread, nausea and possibly disturbing hallucinations. Like the podcast Video Palace and the series Archive 81, electronic audio is used as a lo-fi device for the transmission of horror and for isolating our protagonist, and their audience, further, forcing them to turn inward and more paranoid with each passing episode.

Lead Lily Sullivan dominates the frame as the only actor present throughout. Starting off uneasy due to her recent professional disgrace, the Interviewer progressively invests more of herself into this new story in the hopes of re-establishing herself as a respected journalist in search of the truth, over her professional duty to procedure. At first, confined to a podcaster’s desk, Lily soon uses the sparse setting as a stage as the movie becomes increasingly more cinematic using mixed media and sound design to their full creative potential.

Verdict: An incredibly intriguing chiller that keeps you on the edge of your seat like a good episodic podcast should. 4.5 stars.

Luke McWilliams, themovieclub.net. Viewed at Dendy Cinemas.