I was really looking forward to watching this movie and I must say it kinda let me down.The rumors had it to be one of the scariest movies of the year.
The concept is original and quite catchy.The beginning leaves you no room to sit around and chatter.It throws at you right off the bat,what you will realize to be,the main event.
Creepy figures in the dark,hollow eyes starring at the core of your soul and great visual effects that allows you no time to think if you like what you see or not.You immediately feel the threat and the cold shivers running down your spine.
Unfortunately,the atmosphere that is so easily established- something very hard with most movies-dies out and gets replaced by many chitchat moments and what was supposed to be jump scares,I guess.The villain of the film,this evil spirit is thrown at you again and again and again and after some point you just get used to it's creepiness.And what could have been great for jump scares or spooky atmosphere of anxiety,nervousness and horror is taken apart by blatantly put hasty scenes of forced to feel fear.No time and story between the parts,just family stuff.
It really disappointed me when I found out about the villain.They had so many options....A curse,an evil spirit with a grudge,a haunting,a spell by a deranged mother but no....It turns out it was the spirit of an overly attached crazy girlfriend who died during treatment in the mental hospital that the mother was submitted when she was a kid.After that,for no apparent reason,the crazed girlfriend formed a bond with the mother and returned from the grave,to forever claim her company by killing husbands and leading away the children....Yep,that is what they came up with!
The saddest part is the end.After many efforts to survive the spirit's senseless carnage,the mother realized she had to kill herself in order for the spirit to lose all connection to our world,so she smiled and killed herself in front of her daughter in a very unconvincing act.
To be fair,the idea was very original,the acting of some of the cast was good,the visual effects were excellent and the creature was as creepy as it could be!On the downhill,it lacked emotion in some places that to me it seemed essential,the rest of the cast was mostly "ew" and the story was also lacking.There was no depth in the background story,no explanations of the paranormal,no real ending.It was a bit rushed and superficial.
All in all,we have a very nice start with a lot of creepiness and a lot of mystery,but instead of answers and suspense we got more creepiness and some more of the same,resulting in a kind of predictable,boring and simpleminded film.Gets a 6/10 cause it was a decent effort,but had a lot of room-and need-for improvement.Even though I expected more from this movie,it made me stay and watch until the end,if that matters for something.
The concept is original and quite catchy.The beginning leaves you no room to sit around and chatter.It throws at you right off the bat,what you will realize to be,the main event.
Creepy figures in the dark,hollow eyes starring at the core of your soul and great visual effects that allows you no time to think if you like what you see or not.You immediately feel the threat and the cold shivers running down your spine.
Unfortunately,the atmosphere that is so easily established- something very hard with most movies-dies out and gets replaced by many chitchat moments and what was supposed to be jump scares,I guess.The villain of the film,this evil spirit is thrown at you again and again and again and after some point you just get used to it's creepiness.And what could have been great for jump scares or spooky atmosphere of anxiety,nervousness and horror is taken apart by blatantly put hasty scenes of forced to feel fear.No time and story between the parts,just family stuff.
It really disappointed me when I found out about the villain.They had so many options....A curse,an evil spirit with a grudge,a haunting,a spell by a deranged mother but no....It turns out it was the spirit of an overly attached crazy girlfriend who died during treatment in the mental hospital that the mother was submitted when she was a kid.After that,for no apparent reason,the crazed girlfriend formed a bond with the mother and returned from the grave,to forever claim her company by killing husbands and leading away the children....Yep,that is what they came up with!
The saddest part is the end.After many efforts to survive the spirit's senseless carnage,the mother realized she had to kill herself in order for the spirit to lose all connection to our world,so she smiled and killed herself in front of her daughter in a very unconvincing act.
To be fair,the idea was very original,the acting of some of the cast was good,the visual effects were excellent and the creature was as creepy as it could be!On the downhill,it lacked emotion in some places that to me it seemed essential,the rest of the cast was mostly "ew" and the story was also lacking.There was no depth in the background story,no explanations of the paranormal,no real ending.It was a bit rushed and superficial.
All in all,we have a very nice start with a lot of creepiness and a lot of mystery,but instead of answers and suspense we got more creepiness and some more of the same,resulting in a kind of predictable,boring and simpleminded film.Gets a 6/10 cause it was a decent effort,but had a lot of room-and need-for improvement.Even though I expected more from this movie,it made me stay and watch until the end,if that matters for something.