+1 (film)

2013 film by Dennis Iliadis Plus One (2019 film) February 2026 +1 +1MoviePoster2013.jpg Plus One Dennis Iliadis Guy Botham Bill Gullo Dennis Iliadis Rhys Wakefield Logan Miller Ashley Hinshaw Natalie Hall Nathan Larson Mihai Mălaimare Jr. Yorgos Mavropsaridis Process Films Process Productions IFC Midnight 2013 03 10 SXSW 2013 09 20 96 minutes United States English +1 (also known as Plus One and Shadow Walkers) is a 2013 American science fiction horror filmShadow Walkers (2013) https://bbfc.co.uk/releases/shadow-walkers-2013 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20141024104717/https://bbfc.co.uk/releases/shadow-walkers-2013 October 24, 2014 British Board of Film Classification directed by Dennis Iliadis and starring Rhys Wakefield, Logan Miller, Ashley Hinshaw, and Natalie Hall.5 Questions With Ashley Hinshaw From '+1'! https://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3254927/5-questions-with-ashley-hinshaw-from-1/ Bloody Disgusting 23 September 2013 The film is about four college students, David, Jill, Teddy, and Allison, who attend a party. When the clocks at the party are set back in time an hour, there appears a duplicate of every single person in the party doing what they were doing an hour ago. The plot revolves around the characters' unique actions. Dennis Iliadis and Bill Gullo wrote the script after Dennis asked himself three questions. He hired Lola Visual Effects to edit the film and introduce the duplicate effect at the end of the film. It was done using computer-generated animation, LED displays, actors, and footage editing. The film first premiered at the South by Southwest film festival on March 10, 2013. On July 27, 2013, IFC Films acquired the U.S. rights to +1. On January 14, 2014, IFC released the film on DVD for the first time. Plot While on the phone with his girlfriend Jill, who has moved away to attend college, David prompts her to explicitly wish that he were there to see her compete in a fencing tournament, only to surprise her with an unplanned visit. After the competition, David approaches Jill's similarly attired opponent from behind and flirts with her, thinking she is his girlfriend. Intrigued, she kisses David, and Jill storms off angrily after walking in on them. Later, David meets with his friend Teddy, a sex-obsessed student who tells him that Jill will attend a house party later. Hoping that she will speak with him in person, David attends the party, too. A meteor lands near the site of the party, and electrical arcs cause a momentary blackout. The wild revelers do not notice brief, anomalous phenomena that occur during the blackout, such as a mirror image out of sync, but a drug dealer's girlfriend outside the party becomes spooked. As the raucous party proceeds, David searches the house for Jill, and Teddy attempts to charm Melanie. To Teddy's surprise, Melanie invites him to join her upstairs in ten minutes. Meanwhile, David spies on Jill as she flirts with a friend, and Allison, an outsider, unsuccessfully attempts to fit in. David attempts to apologize to Jill, but she becomes angrier with his fumbled apology and says that he makes her feel replaceable. The party moves outside, and the house empties except for David, Teddy, Allison, and Melanie. When Teddy joins Melanie upstairs, he finds her naked on a bed. They proceed to have sex, and she steps into the shower afterward. During a second blackout, a duplicate of Melanie appears on the bed, surprised to find Teddy in the room. When the original Melanie exits the shower, the two Melanies come face-to-face, and Teddy flees the room in a panic. David confirms that the house has filled with duplicates of the partygoers, who repeat the actions their originals took ten minutes ago. Outside, the drug dealer and his duplicate get into a violent confrontation, and David watches as one of them murders the other. Worried that the duplicates may be hostile, the originals attempt to hide. Eventually, the duplicates disappear. With each blackout, the duplicates momentarily reappear and reenact increasingly more recent actions. David becomes convinced that he can save his relationship if he crafts a better apology to Jill's duplicate, Allison befriends her duplicate, and Teddy accidentally ruins the rendez-vous between his and Melanie's duplicates. Teddy warns the others that his duplicate will now become belligerent, and he convinces the partygoers, most of whom are still skeptical, to hide from their duplicates in a pool house. When the duplicates reappear, David knocks his own duplicate unconscious and charms Jill's duplicate, and Teddy's duplicate attempts to convince the skeptical crowd of duplicates to attack the originals. Worried about their safety, several of the originals sneak out and murder their duplicates, which turns the enraged duplicates hostile. The originals retreat to the pool house, and the duplicates lay siege. The next blackout causes the duplicates to appear inside the pool house. The crowded room erupts in violence, and several people die, including Teddy. David tracks down the original Jill, who had wandered back to the house, and he murders her so that he can be with her duplicate. Allison seduces her duplicate, and they share a kiss. The final blackout causes the duplicates and originals to merge. David and Jill leave together and make their way to the pool house and have a make-out session. The confused partygoers stagger out of the pool house, and they begin to disperse. Two meteors, like the original, are shown passing through the sky and appear to be leaving Earth. Cast Rhys Wakefield as DavidBerkshire Geoffrey 24 September 2013 Film Review: '+1' https://variety.com/2013/film/reviews/film-review-plus-one-1200665804/ 5 April 2014 Variety Logan Miller as Teddy Ashley Hinshaw as Jill Natalie Hall as Melanie Rohan Kymal as Angad Suzanne and Colleen Dengel as Alison Adam David Thompson as Kyle Additionally, Chrissy Chambers and Ronke Shonibare portray strippers Kitty and Katty, respectively.Chrissy Chambers https://www.metacritic.com/person/chrissy-chambers 18 October 2020 Metacritic ViacomCBS Hannah Kasulka appears as Jill's fencing opponent. Themes Meredith McLean from The Au Review pointed out that the film had the theme of identity, identity crisis (specifically youth identity) and narcissism. She compared the film to the mindlessness of the adolescence and claimed the film wanted the viewer to be themselves.McLean Meredith 2015-03-02 DVD Review: Plus One (USA, 2013) https://www.theaureview.com/watch/dvd-review-plus-one-usa-2013/ 2020-10-18 The AU Review Genre Iliadis denies that the film was ever a horror film. He said it is a science fiction film in an interview with indienyc.com.2013-09-20 Interview: Dennis Iliadis (Director – '+1') http://indienyc.com/interview-dennis-iliadis-director-1/ 2020-10-13 Indiewood/Hollywoodn't 2020-11-03 https://web.archive.org/web/20201103210827/http://indienyc.com/interview-dennis-iliadis-director-1/ dead However, in another interview with Icon vs. Icon, he explained that he attempted to make the movie interesting while combining several genres. In that same interview, he explained that some scenes of the film were horror and the other scenes were tender.Price Jason 2013-09-17 Director Dennis Iliadis Discusses The Challenges of Making 'Plus One' https://www.iconvsicon.com/2013/09/17/director-dennis-iliadis-discusses-the-challenges-of-making-plus-one/ 2020-10-13 Icon Vs. Icon Production Script In an interview, Dennis Iliadis said that he asked himself three questions: "what would happen if you could meet yourself?" "What would happen if you were in the same space with yourself and both versions of you were going after the same thing?" "what if this space was a wild party where all of the emotions are raw and "there's no time to be intellectual and process things?"Webb Charles Interview: Director Dennis Iliadis Breaks The Timeline In '+1' http://www.mtv.com/news/2630352/interview-director-dennis-iliadis-breaks-the-timeline-in-1/ https://web.archive.org/web/20180502064421/http://www.mtv.com/news/2630352/interview-director-dennis-iliadis-breaks-the-timeline-in-1/ dead May 2, 2018 2013-09-20 2020-10-13 MTV News I don't think the key word is "horror". I think the film is more of a science fiction thriller. At the same time, these things help me take this science fiction idea and bring it into the horror genre once things get out of control. It's definitely a genre bender in the sense that it combines a lot of different elements. I think it belongs in the science fiction thriller mold, but it's a genre film that combines a few things.Hanley Ken W. 20 September 2013 Interview: Dennis Iliadis on "+1" https://diaboliquemagazine.com/interview-dennis-iliadis-1/ Diabolique Magazine 12 October 2020 — Dennis Iliadis interview with Diabolique Magazine right 400px Dennis chose to set the story at a teen house party because of the risk. He wanted it specifically because it was "fun, raunchy, and messy". He then wrote a short paragraph and presented it to Bill Gullo. He converted it into a full script. Visual effects Lola Visual Effects helped produce the images of the duplicates interacting with one another by using visual effects and CGI. They used their own facial rig (which they made specifically for The Social Network) to make the duplicates. They recorded a person interacting with another person wearing the same clothes, and then they would recreate the scene in another facility with a rigid chair inside a bank of LED panels that surround the actor. They then merged the footage together in order to create the duplicate interaction footage.Astle Randy "We Treat the De-Aging Process Like Plastic Surgery": Edson Williams on +1's Visual Effects https://filmmakermagazine.com/76238-we-treat-the-de-aging-process-like-plastic-surgery-edson-williams-on-1s-visual-effects/ 2020-10-13 Filmmaker Magazine Release Premiere It premiered on March 10, 2013, at SXSW. +1 was released in theaters, iTunes, and VOD on September 20, 2013.Hall Jacob EXCLUSIVE: '+1' PICS SHOW OFF THE FILM'S SEXY, CREEPY SIDE https://screencrush.com/exclusive-plus-1-pics/ 23 September 2013 Screen Crush For the VOD release Iliadis worked on fine-tuning elements of the film, as he felt that the SXSW release was too "rushed".5 Questions With '+1' Director Dennis Iliadis!! https://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3255116/5-questions-with-1-director-dennis-iliadis/ 23 September 2013 Bloody Disgusting DVD IFC released +1 on DVD on 14 January 2014. The special features include a commentary track, visual effects behind-the-scenes featurette, deleted scenes, interviews with cast & crew, poster gallery, cast auditions, and trailers.Coffman Jason +1 (Plus One) https://www.filmmonthly.com/film/1-plus-one 2020-10-30 FilmMonthly Reception Rotten Tomatoes reports that 82% of 11 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating was 6.6/10.https://rottentomatoes.com/m/1_2013/ +1 (2013) Rotten Tomatoes 30 June 2017 Metacritic rated it 60/100 based on six reviews.https://metacritic.com/movie/plus-one +1 Metacritic 5 April 2014 Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times made it a NYT Critics' Pick and called it "a fleet and frenzied sci-fi tale with more on its mind than alien gate-crashers."Catsoulis Jeannette Revelers, Pause to Meet Yourselves https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/20/movies/1-a-sci-fi-party-film-from-dennis-iliadis.html 23 September 2013 The New York Times September 19, 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20190703194653/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/20/movies/1-a-sci-fi-party-film-from-dennis-iliadis.html 3 July 2019 live limited Chuck Bowen of Slant Magazine gave the film three out of four stars, commenting that Iliadis did a good job of showing the "existential despair" of narcissism and detachment.Bowen Chuck Film Review: +1 https://slantmagazine.com/film/review/plus-one Slant Magazine 23 September 2013 Scott Weinberg of Fearnet gave a more mixed review, saying that the film was a "decent, uneven, well-made spin on a very standard horror story".Weinberg Scott FEARnet Movie Review: '+1' (aka 'Plus One') http://www.fearnet.com/news/review/fearnet-movie-review-1-aka-plus-one Fearnet 23 September 2013 In a mixed review, Geoff Berkshire of Variety called it a "trippy oddity" with "a tantalizing visual puzzle that demands full attention, even as the flavorless characters and largely so-so performances risk audience indifference." Berkshire states the film's "overriding misogyny" may be intentional satire. Acquisition by IFC Films On July 27, 2013, IFC Films acquired the U.S. rights to +1. Jonathan Sehring, the president of IFC films, claimed that the company intended to introduce the film to a wider audience.IFC Midnight Picks Up U.S. Rights to Dennis Iliadis' Supernatural Thriller '+1' https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ifc-midnight-picks-up-us-576498 2020-10-17 The Hollywood Reporter References External links Category:2013 films Category:2013 independent films Category:2013 science fiction horror films Category:2013 horror thriller films Category:American horror thriller films Category:American independent films Category:American science fiction horror films Category:American science fiction thriller films Category:2013 English-language films Category:Films about parallel universes Category:Films directed by Dennis Iliadis Category:Films about meteoroids Category:Films about time loops Category:2013 science fiction thriller films Category:2013 American films Category:English-language independent films Category:Films scored by Nathan Larson Category:English-language horror thriller films Category:English-language science fiction horror films Category:English-language science fiction thriller films Category:2010s films about time travel Category:American films about time travel