The Storm Chaser
2022 · 7m
Directed by Jack Pirie
Genres: action, fantasy, thriller
Tones: surreal, tense, theatrical
A man who seems able to harness the weather is pursued in an adrenaline-fuelled assault on the senses, following a fearless figure into the heart of the storm.
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The scouts
It's got the surreal theater and weather-god premise that should feel subversive, but the film plays it straight—all sensation, no bite. The adrenaline assault becomes white noise when there's nothing underneath to resist.
Pirie channels the kinetic maximalism of contemporary action cinema with compositional precision, though the film's theatrical surrealism sits uneasily between genre convention and formal experimentation without fully committing to either language.
The decision to let the storm become the protagonist's second body—matched breath-for-breath in the sound design and cutting rhythm—transforms what could've been a generic chase into something genuinely uncanny and controlled on what must be a modest budget.
Reviews
Whilst his previous film The Superman was a gentle reverie into another world, The Storm Chaser is an adrenaline fuelled assault on the senses.