Anomaly

This movie is so gawddog awful. The effects are preschool and the acting is a disgrace to the profession. The father's character is unbelievably terrible to the point where I was experiencing uncomfortable squeamishes. There is one thing going for it. It's so bad it could probably be, with a lot of tweaking, a pretty good comedy.

Terrible. Especially the young actors (Hunter Alexes Parker and Mason Parker) and the dad (Matt Holbrook). Lara Jean Mummert did pretty well, but she is too much of a stage and theater actor to work well on screen.

In the actors' defense, the writing can take a lot of the blame for the disjointed and unnatural dialogue. No one says things like, "looking...right at myself." Or, "...without knowing the background of it." I know Batista was born in the DR but no one proofread the work at all to remove any rigidity or colloquial missteps.

This move was so bad I created an IMDb account to prevent others from Suffering as I have through it. It is quite obvious to me that the individuals who gave this flying turd Taco a 10/10 have either been paid to, or are direct relatives of the individuals in this film. There were many scenes where the sound didn't sync up to the action (think 70's dubbed kung fu), in addition to the horrendous editing which appeared to be done by a severely ADHD seven year old who hadn't had his daily dose of adderall. If that isn't alliterative enough for you, then try to imagine a demon possession movie where the main "scary" character is simply a man in a Walmart grim reaper hood with a 5 dollar face paint job. Seriously folks, my Niece can paint a better scary face, and she's only 8. Nothing original, a rehash of other horror movies all coalesced into one garbled, unimaginative piece of garbage. }:-\

Even if I don't like a movie. But. This is the dumbest movie I've seen in a while. The acting is laughable. The writing is laughable. I would have laughed throughout except I think it was meant to be taken seriously. It had the potential to be scary but fell so short because the writing and acting was horrible. It's a shame because I really think they meant to make a legitimately scary movie.

The moment I saw Charles what's his name in this I knew it was going to be terrible. The last movie I saw him in, he played a psychologist that took his patients to a cabin for the weekend and someone was killing them off. That movie was bad. This is worse.

Let's start with the production. I had to check several times to make sure this wasn't a dub. The dialogue never seemed to match up with the lip movement. It also had the sound quality of those dubbed European shows on Netflix. But, alas, it was made in America and the actors were American.

Next is the actors. I guess acting school/lessons is a thing of the past. No one had any presence at all. The girl telling the story was so droll I wished I was deaf. The father spoke like he didn't know how to construct sentences. And the mother just whined the whole time. There was also a son and daughter, but like I said, had no presence and I dismissed them easily. Then there's the pastor. Just why? He was so over the top yet underwhelming at the same time I had to rewind a few times.

The ending was not a shocker. I figured it out in the first 5 minutes of the film. If you need to put someone to sleep, this film will do it for you.