There's Something Wrong with the Children

Horror movies in general lack a lot these days. Whether it be a sense of originality, good acting, or genuine spook factor... but it's been a while since I've encountered a movie that lacks this...

There is almost no semblance of a story here. Sure, they gave us a vague background on the characters and it gives us spooky snippets here and there, but... what exactly was the story? What was the plot here? As previously stated, you guessed it... there wasn't one. It kind of blows my mind that this could fully go into production and distributed with such a lack of storytelling. It felt super lazy like someone came up with a proof of concept but had no will or desire to elaborate on anything.

Now, with that being said, it was still a generally entertaining movie. I was intrigued throughout, it just didn't bring me anywhere. I think that said partial success mostly has to do with the acting. I thought the ensemble of the four adults did an excellent job and provided down to earth and relatable performances in a way that I feel like I haven't seen much of. They have a group argument moment at one point and it was *chefs kiss*.

At the end of the day they just wasted some solid potential with lazy storytelling, landing the movie at solidly mediocre. Also a side note, idk what they were doing with the score/sound design... but it wasn't successful... 4.5 rounding up to a 5. As far as the recommendation goes, I'm indifferent.

Of a blumhouse production this was. Its 2 families going on cabin trip, something is wrong with the kids of one of the couples, its all blurred into some building ruins in the woods that has an endless pit that hypnotize the children, and that screws around with their uncles mental health, that hallucinates and dives into paranoia at any given time...

there are loads of signs and hints to this horror mystery tail, among those are lithium , noseblood and bombdiving and a secret tunnel between the ruins and the huts. Its not much originality in the plot, the rush of scare is forced ahead by the score, more than the acting efforts. They use long stocks of ''one take'' shoots, so its well planned and panned out , but it is not enough.

The script is a real downer, and it ruins the trip for the senior horror geeks, suits better a sofa-tv fanatic with its silky touch. So its just a 5 from the grumpy old man.

Movie is a standard low budget horror film. Concept is pretty straight forward, kids come back from the woods yada yada yada.

I don't really know what to say about it. I'll forget this movie in an hour or two. I mean I did finish it and it was somewhat interesting overall. The acting and dynamics between the adult characters is well done. The kids also performed well given the material.

I guess I would say if you're looking to online shop or you want to zonk out on the couch and watch something that's not too complicated but somewhat entertaining than this would fit the bill. Not much more to say. 5/10.

Okay but why ? When the movie started I was like okay this looks kind of interesting but as the film progressed and then ended it left me with so many questions that I couldn't even enjoyed what I saw... The atmosphere was missing here and many things seemed not to connect with each other... I would have liked the film to end somewhere interesting and not just end without any explanation this shows the lack of inspiration and the dryness of their work. It could have been interesting if they had worked on it more or if they had a bigger budget.

I would love it if there was a sequel to explain what happened.

The film can also be characterized as psycho horror. Many criticisms are due to the bad acting of the children, but it was not a problem for me in general. The only problem is the very end of the film, which was done "hastily" as if the director had no idea how the film should end, so they did the first thing that came to their mind.

It can be assumed that the film did not have a very big budget, but it deviates from jumpscares and boring horror elements that have already been "used up" through years and years of making horror films. The movie is excellent if you like mysticism, adventure, drama, horror, psychothriller, action. The film has a little bit of every genre. I rated it 7/10 only because of the ending, which in my opinion is the most important for horror films, because I think that in horror films the viewer should not be left to come up with the final event, but that it should be completely clear and determined. I advise everyone who makes horror films to analyze Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, because it is the core of horror as it should have been.