Aged

There is little to no consistency in the character's makeup between scenes. That's just one of my pet peeves. The main character misses so many red flags that it is absolutely absurd, and you just want to slap her across the face. Then the character of the Alzheimer's riddled Mother, just does not ring true at all. Her Alzheimer's behaviors do not come and go, in an organic way. She usually comes off as a nasty hateful person who has her witts about her, completely. There is literally only one scene where the patient has a fleeting moment of Dementia, then you never see it again. And it's not all due to the supposed effects of what is happening in the storyline. It appears to be bad story telling and bad editing. The story has so many gaping holes in the plot, that I don't understand how it got past an underwriter's desk.

The thing these days seems to be slow-burning, character-driven plot lines. Certainly have that here as the two main actresses engage throughout. Nice photography, hits all the marks of horror. Predictable in parts but when you're going with a classic structure, that's just going to happen. Those moments came with a nice pay-off. Reality v. Nightmare situations keep you guessing.

This is a psychological thriller with strong female leads. Using a low budget and limited locations, the filmmakers made the most of it all with the photography. The film has a palpable feel that its creators love and respect the genre and the cast was having a great time.

I was pleasantly surprised with what I got out of this film. Given the budget I never stopped being impressed by how well this movie was done. Any low budget film requires good casting and talented crew members and this one clearly has those elements. This is not a jump scare horror film, if you are looking for that you won't get it. This is a slow burn that the soundtrack does a great job of establishing the mood for throughout. The film is not without flaws but I sincerely believe this it could stand up to 90% of the big budget horror films currently coming out of Hollywood. Any true fan of horror films should thoroughly enjoy this one.

Warning, do not fast forward any part of this, you might miss something that explains what is going on and you will be forced to rewind it and watch it again.

Veronica Grey (Morgan Boss-Maltais) did play this part well, however, with the pace of the movie a little slow and the runtime too long for this story, I lost interest in the plot and the story itself became a "what" "huh" moment, more than once.

Mrs Bloom (Carla Kidd) play off against Miss Grey well, sometimes and other times her presence was like the "what" "huh" moments I mentioned above.

Joe (Adonis Ringo) brought nothing but "huh" moments to the story, he did this rather well. Perhaps he was only included because his name was Adonis.

I realised that while writing this, I dropped the rating down to 3 "what" says something about the movie. I'm hoping that Morgan Boss-Maltais gets some better roles. Would I recommend this? Nope.

Unoriginal, predictable, insipid, and worst of all, the acting is abysmal. Wish I could reclaim the time I spent on this garbage fire of a movie. I stuck with it, thinking, "No movie in 2023 could be this awful." Nope - I was wrong. This one is just terrible. PLEASE don't waste your time on this one. At best, it is a well-worn plot that could have been told in a 3-minute short. You find yourself hoping that the protagonist will be swallowed up by an earthbound hell-worm - anything to make the film end. I couldn't possibly spoil anything here, since, by reading the title of the movie, you already know exactly what is going to happen. Going to find my thesaurus to find more synonyms for "horrible" now . . .