When you get the Jitters…
There’s a new clown in town and it’s not bloated buffoon Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy, a man who thinks Liebfraumilch is a German girl who jumps over cows. Jitters sees DI Collymore ( Fabrizio Santiano) an American in London’s police and himself committing crimes against fashion by sporting a man bun. Having attended the scene of a young woman’s death his colleague DI Harding (Anto Sharp) explains his own case that he is investigating that involves a man live streaming himself as he nails guns himself to death which is surely only a series away from a I’m a Celebrity’s bush tucker trial
A case of the Jitters…
Seeing a similarity with his own case Collymore uncovers the game Jitters and it’s clown faced presenter, that for once is not Amanda Holden let loose with lipstick, and dresses like a satanic version of Ker-plunk. By channelling AI the character gets under the skin of whoever plays the game forcing them to face their own fears to catastrophic effect. It’s an online world that Collymore soon gets drawn into and worse still finds his own daughter at risk also.
Problems….
But despite its frequent London city scape bridging shots it confused by nods to a presumed US market that starts with its American accented cop albeit one which Santino convincingly pulls off. But added to the London based story are a number of factors that blurs it setting further – Collymore’s cop is routinely armed despite working in a unit that would not require it and even the police tape that marks off crimes scenes is that yellow US ‘do not cross’ type rather than the British blue and white police tape that is actually used such crime scenes. Like many other police based films there’s an obsession with characters harping on about warrants that suggest a misunderstanding as to when a warrant is required albeit like real life it is non police characters that erroneously tell officers they need a warrant to talks to them. And there’s a lack of awareness of procedure that sees a character sectioned in what looks like Madame Tussauds chamber of horrors rather than a contemporary mental health unit. And when its known that real life police officers are the ones who run towards danger, here, when a character that is drenched in petrol and holds a cigarette lighter in their hand, is confronted by two officers they decide to step back rather than saving the man by leaping on the unlit lighter.
Equally there are moments which don’t make sense – at one point Collymore drives off leaving his ex-wife and beloved daughter alone in an industrial estate in the middle of the night. And when the two detectives are carrying out initial investigation with the head of a games development company Collymore, rather than getting the owner onside, he instead chooses to aggravates him frustrating any hopes of co-operation to gain useful information.
And so…
.For horror fans the low budget effects will not excite and as a police procedural its taken its research from B-movies rather than actual protocol. Written by George Willcox and directed by Marc Zammit this is a horror film with its eyes set on being a franchise fronted by its clown faced killer of the title and its end title suggest that there is potential.
related feature : Pennywise at the IT Chapter 2 premiere / James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain & Bill Skarsgard / Secrets
related feature : A disc review of ‘Spawn’ – BLU RAY LIMITED EDITION
Here’s the Jitters trailer….
Jitters is on UK digital on 16th March and US on 17th March from Miracle Media
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