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Went in with an open mind...SPOILERS!

posted 12 years ago by thesavants08
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Still disappointed! I come to IMDB for all my movie recommendations and have never been let down. So when I saw the rave reviews for this I couldn't wait to watch it. Such a let down!! I watched the entire thing, and there is only 1 creepy scene with the cell footage. All the rest of them are scams in the movie by the brother. Yeah I know at the end they go back and quickly show she really was in all the scenes, but it was too late by then. I mean it was the credits. Me and my husband kept waiting and waiting and waiting for something, ANYTHING creepy or scary to happen. The only thing that was scary was how much the parents knew nothing about their daughter, and even though they knew she was distressed didn't even talk to her. Don't come on here saying oh well you are not smart enough to understand it or don't get how scary it was because you are not 'artsy' enough. There was nothing artistic about this film, and nothing scary at all. I love a good pop out at you horror film, but find the psychological slow creep up on you ones better...like Session 9. I was so looking forward to a sleepless night from a good scary film. This movie has nothing going for it except the last scene and they could build an entire movie around that, but they failed. I knew when After Dark came up before it that I had never liked one of their films, but I thought I could trust IMDB.
IMDB let me down with this one!
PLEASE recommend something next time that is actually creepy and scary. Not boring till the last 15 minutes with one good scene.

[–] cutprintreview 12 years ago

If you appreciate character, story, atmosphere, nuance and originality, then you might have actually enjoyed this excellent film. If all you're after is trite jump scares, gore and cheap thrills, then yes, look elsewhere.

[–] thesavants08 12 years ago

Of course this is the typical fan response. If you don't like a movie you must hate good stories! Give me a break! We don't have to LOVE every movie you do! I actually hate gore movies and walked out of the collector years ago because it was disturbing! AND I think they contribute to our crazy society as a whole.
As I stated in my previous post I love a good story and in fact am a huge fan of foreign horror as they seem to actually have great stories/atmosphere. They have it down and I can not understand why America can't. This film had a story, but what was scary about it? It was more sad then anything about the parents not even knowing who their daughter was. Everything they built horror related in the beginning fell away to the brother admitting he did it. I do realize that they showed it in the credits, but the credits is way too late to try to build a horror story. I wanted to be chilled to the bone and love a good subtle horror film that makes me lose sleep. This was nothing like that as I heard it was. It was more of a family drama with a horror ending. As a parent myself the most disturbing part was a mother who knew something was wrong with their teenage daughter and wouldn't speak to her. It was just depressing, but not scary.

[–] DaliParton 12 years ago

You didn't like it and all of your complaints are entirely subjective.
Cool story bro!

[–] ajnemajrje 12 years ago

I agree with the OP.

All lead up and any progress they made with the creepy factor was destroyed by the fact that the brother doctored most of the scary stuff.

They did not go too much into character developement other than to say that the teenaged girl kept things to herself, much like her mother and her grandmother but they didn;'t show any examples of them showing that was the way she was. They could have thrown in a scene where the parents confronted her about her depression.

As they say in writing - Show don't tell.

And I know that the format made it harder not to just have many scenes that were "telling" scenes, but still they could have tried a little.

[–] basketcasebelial 12 years ago

Watch the changeling with George C. Scott. I'm also a huge fan of session 9 so I think you'd enjoy it.

[–] cheekyfilm 11 years ago

FACT: if this film was exactly the same, but an american b-movie, it would have 50% less hype.