that pack a decent punch. Are they enough, though, for Pod to leave an indelible impression that lasts beyond its 76 minutes of screen time?
The film begins and ends in one snowy spot, with only a tiny detour in between to get all of our characters together: a maniacal military vet, Martin (Brian Morvant), who is holed up in a rural family cabin, and his brother and sister Ed and Lyla (Dean Cates, Lauren Ashley Carter) who come to his aid after a rambling voicemail alerts them to his deteriorating mental state. Martin has been in a hospital before, and is exhibiting behavior that is symptomatic of paranoid schizophrenia; his brother Ed sees this as an opportunity for an intervention and has plans to drag him back toperformance with the same frozen expression of horrified awe on her face for the entire film, which becomes a mild distraction from any semblance of importance her character might have had to offer. Genre regular Larry Fessenden, though billed first in the film’s credits, is criminally underutilized both as a seasoned veteran of horror as well as a crucial character in fleshing out the conspiracy angle of the story. His involvement, as well as the various plot threads that Keating only had time to tease at, leaves much to be desired by the film’s end.

Maybe she's got permanent shock face because it's so cold?

Had Keating been afforded a larger-scale budget and broadened his few good ideas, Pod might have risen above what ultimately feels like a slightly long,