Winifred Meeks Review

Winifred Meeks is a 2021 feature film written and directed by Jaosn Figgis. This film was screened for review as part of the Free Independent Film Weekend Fright Night 2021.

A film that at every step moves at a glacial pace, that seems only to want to test your patience, rather than present vignettes of interesting tension, Winifred Meeks never grabs the attention of the viewer at any turn.

As mentioned, the thing that hurts this film the most is the slow, plodding pace of the film. To start it feels as if the story proper isn’t really even introduced until past the 20-minute mark. Everything to this point as well is just dreadfully dull. We have no proper character introduction, no story beat to introduce us to the theme of the film, no proper sense of why we should care, unfortunately.

It all just feels like time is stretched incredibly thin to reach a feature film length run time. Each moment could be tightened up and the same story beats delivered in a more efficient manner. Taking all that into consideration, this could easily be a much more enjoyable to watch 30-minute short film.

In taking the forced feature route though we have instead a case of too little to show, with the dread not really ever fully settling in.

From a technical standpoint, everything here is serviceable enough. The scenes are lit decently well, although there are instances of color correction not matching between scenes happening at the same time. The audio mix as well gets the job done, again not being terrible but not great either.

It is a shame since there are some interesting ideas, and a few decent jump scares. It is just muddled against a film that is almost honestly downright boring in some spots.

There is an incarnation of Winifred Meeks that cuts out all the fluff, making for a much more tightly paced narrative, but in the feature length state it is in, it just doesn’t work well at all. One that will test your patience, and unfortunately leave you drifting off to sleep much as the main character does all too often throughout the film.

This film was screened for review as part of the Free Independent Film Weekend Fright Night 2021.

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