This is a pretty dumb horror movie where a psychopathic child and his clueless mother wonder around their haunted house trying to pretend like the little sister/daughter won't need therapy for the rest of her life. The house they live in is exactly the kind of place that I would prefer to watch Godzilla step on. But I watched this movie instead for some reason.
I don't like writing that has kids seem more evil than they are. The kid that gets badly beat up by the psycho that we are supposed to be rooting for says a bunch of stuff that kids never say. Sure he was a bully but I don't approve of any sort of violence towards children. Who's fault is it that I have to endure that in a movie? The jack ass that wrote the story. Thanks a lot dude, hope they forced you to write this mess and it wasn't a passion project.
I think the movie symbolizes how it can sometimes feel to be a single parent trying to make it in life. It's hard and there are constant worries and pressures. That's a pretty good subtext for a horror movie. But the movie doesn't match the subtext in quality. Showing us that you know how to pen down a good subtext but then showing us that you don't know how to make a good movie around it is like showing us your research on the effects of porn and then expecting us all to care. People like to get a nut and your movie is not that nut.
None of the movie is believable. Sometimes the monsters, which have a twist, but not a great one, just disappear and reappear out of nowhere. They have undefined powers and abilities so it's hard to know just how afraid we should be of them. The movie makes it's relatively short run time feel really long too. I'm sure if you saw it in theaters you probably felt like you had been robbed of your 20$ you spent on the whole evening. Except this robber hangs around to bite off the tip of your index finger as their calling card.
I didn't feel anything in this movie. I thought the character writing was a complete failure. The visuals of the monsters were pretty good at times. The did imply am intensity even if I didn't care if they ate the family or not. Watching this movie for scares is like going out with your friends to play ultimate Frisbee right before a hurricane makes landfall. It's futile.
This movie wasn't fun for me, but I would recommend it to someone that wants to get into horror but is afraid of being too scared. This movie would blend perfectly with that demographic. If making your first dive into horror is big life change for you then you would probably also consider deleting all the unread emails in your inbox a day's work. But I'm not here to criticize you am I? The movie is currently on Netflix if you want to check it out.
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