This is a bad movie, bad acting coming from a horror movie fan..just what the hell were they thinking
shareThe Movie wasn't bad at all. It was Great. Tremendous performances by everyone. And good direction. I'm sure You'll love it when you see ahead of the movie. It gave me chills! :)
shareI agree. I watched about 2/3 of the movie and thought it MIGHT get better, but it was just crap from the get go. That is when I had to just turn it off and find something else to watch. So glad I did not pay for it ( I watched on Netflix' Watch Instantly).
You know, 10 minutes in, it was still an introduction to the film and the characters in a 'documentary interview' parts. Do you want it to start off straight away all scary? Because nothing scary happened in the first ten minutes of The Blair Witch Project, or Paranormal Activity.
shareFace it the movie was rubbish. I watched 2/3 of it and found it so predictable, the dialogue atrocious and the acting so bad that I could not put up with the rest.
Usually when a movie sucks, I try to find something to finish it for, just so I can say I tried to like it. But this movie was just too hard to sit through that I could not do it. There was just not ONE thing I wanted to finish the movie for.
I'm struggling through it, it's difficult. As far as I can see, everyone in it is pretty unlikable, particularly the minister. I mean, I get it, it's a documentary with a behind-the-scenes feel and, from what I've been able to gleam from the board, a (predictable) twist at the end. But the acting IS bad, and I'm going to put this out there half way through, the story is predictable.
It's a shame. I remember how great Rosemary's Baby was/is, why do they struggle to make good horror films these days.
Oh, and as for the 'it's a documentary'. Well, it's not, because it has 'scary music', which is just rubbish and self-defeating.
(oh, and the answer to the thread 'the devil is a man made invention' - firstly, that doesn't make sense, and secondly, the reason these films are still made is because, if they are done well, they can be truely unnerving. Unlike this one).
ps. oh look, I was right. Sigh.
I concur. It was terrible. I can't believe I bought the blu ray!
shareI can usually manage to find something at least a little redeeming in most horror flicks I see (even such pap as the formulaic Saw franchise) but in all honestly after watching TLE I just feel cheated.
I was really looking forward to this movie and from the previews and clips I'd seen, we were going to be wowed by an actor who could naturally contort her body in the most scary ways imaginable. It turned out that the tantalising clips of her cricking her neck and sitting on a wardrobe was actually the extent of her repertoire. Wow.
For me about the creepiest part of the film was an almost imperceptible smile from Nell as she was shut in her bedroom.
As for the ending, I wish the disappointingly amateurish final 10 minutes had been left off, and they'd just gone home after discovering that they had all been taken in by extremely disturbed teen.
I'm with you. I went to see it not too long after it came out, at the time a couple of years ago.
I had to leave the theater all together. Litterally, walked out of the movie. Not only was it a bad documentry, but a bad movie, with bad acting. I couldn't believe I stayed longer than 20 minutes. lol
You are right. The movie was pretty bad. Shame on Eli Roth.
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