This movie could've had so much potential, up there with A24 movies, but alas, it was wasted.
Unfortunately the writer / director must have never seen a horror movie in his life, because he thinks loud noises are what make a scene scary. There is no suspense, there is no tension, there is almost 0 action for the entirety of the movie. If it was supposed to be scary, they must've meant for any 3 year olds in the audience. There's also bad actors that think they're on a theatre stage ( a staple of romanian cinema ) with a monotone and LOUD way of reciting each line, like they're in the 1940s and microphones are still bad quality. They have no idea what it means to get lost in a character. Characters which by the way are absolutely paper thin. The story is inspired by a romanian folk story, but that doesn't mean they couldn't have fleshed them out at least a little bit. Or the story. Or do anything other than this absolute bore fest.
People at my showing were laughing and rolling their eyes instead of being tense and yelping, and I think that says it all. The 3 stars are for the archaic way of talking ( which was awfully interpreted though ) and the mountain views. That's it.
Unfortunately the writer / director must have never seen a horror movie in his life, because he thinks loud noises are what make a scene scary. There is no suspense, there is no tension, there is almost 0 action for the entirety of the movie. If it was supposed to be scary, they must've meant for any 3 year olds in the audience. There's also bad actors that think they're on a theatre stage ( a staple of romanian cinema ) with a monotone and LOUD way of reciting each line, like they're in the 1940s and microphones are still bad quality. They have no idea what it means to get lost in a character. Characters which by the way are absolutely paper thin. The story is inspired by a romanian folk story, but that doesn't mean they couldn't have fleshed them out at least a little bit. Or the story. Or do anything other than this absolute bore fest.
People at my showing were laughing and rolling their eyes instead of being tense and yelping, and I think that says it all. The 3 stars are for the archaic way of talking ( which was awfully interpreted though ) and the mountain views. That's it.