LewisAugustine

I was looking for a horror movie to stream, and settled on this without high expectations. Then I was pleasantly surprised to find I was intrigued and wanted to keep watching this under rated find. This is pretty decent story. Far better than the usual slasher with a chainsaw, or me too haunted house with footsteps upstairs and curtains blowing in the breeze. Surprisingly good acting all around, though I wasn't familiar most of the cast. DeBose did a fine job here. Very little blood, gore, or even special effects. Which says something about a story that can stand on it's own without them. Recommended, for something more chill and subtle in the horror genre.

This is one of those movies that would be good if it was a 15 minute segment in a "creep show" type collection of shorts.

As a full length movie it drags on very very badly with tons of pointless, and quite frankly repetitive, dialog between the main characters.

There's virtually no gore or effects. The movie mostly tries to be a suspense thriller with a slow leadup. But they took slow to unnecessary extremes. I nearly quit somewhere around the 1 hour mark during yet another uninteresting dialog. But I stuck it out to the end to see if there was some brilliant twist and regretted that investment of time.

Sulky emo Batman with Bieber hair hanging in his eyes didn't really work for me. Sulky and emo isn't the same as dark. The movie was slow paced. I watched this at home, and kept checking the remaining runtime about halfway through, wondering when it would end.

The script was more like a daytime soap opera with long weepy self-indulgent conversations, than a comic hero action movie. And some plot elements didn't make any sense, which I won't go into because that would involve heavy spoilers.

I honestly don't understand the high rating for this schlock. The one highlight was Colin Farrell giving an amazing Penguin portrayal.