The Twin

Ok so, I don't think this was nearly as unsuccessful as a whole as a lot of the reviews are claiming... however their reasoning is accurate.

This is an amalgamation of many horror movies you have already seen, so nothing original. It was a little too long and was almost on the verge of being too slow but I personally was entertained and it kept my attention enough.

I found the mother character irritating but damn did that actress do a good job. People get those two confused a lot. The character annoyed me but that actress killed it, there's a difference lol great job. All other performances were fine.

I was confused by the poor reviews until about the third act when I felt that it went down hill. It started to feel repetitive and labored. I started to feel particularly displeased when the exposition was in the form of a spoon fed monologue/ montage. I mean, how lame right? Lol

Although this was nothing particularly original and slightly derivative I think that it was still moderately successful in its own right. While I was displeased with some major things, I was still pretty entertained for the majority. I was thinking 6 or maybe even 7 depending on the ending until the last chunk and knocked it down to a 5.5 but I'll give it a 6 for the leads performance. I would casually recommend, if you don't have something else in cue lol.

This film will feel very familiar due to an overused theme (grief). If you can somehow get around that...you may enjoy this. Beautifully filmed (CGI cemetery was weird though) and the acting was solid all around. Atmospheric, but not particularly frightening. Not a fast moving film, but no noticeable filler. I can't think of a reason not to recommend this. Might pair nicely with Wake Wood (2009) for a double feature and exercise in contrast and comparison.

So, here I go...Around the 32min mark I checked to see how much was left and was stunned it had an hour still to go! But I hung in there..indeed I did, went from being a story of grief to batching crazy! I Enjoyed the beginning and I liked the end..it was the middle 50 mins I almost turned off or fell asleep. I'd pass the 5 stars is for 2 female leads.

First of all, the athmosphere is nice. Teresa Palmer was pretty good as a grieving mother. But the story builds up to a massive let down. They could've skipped the whole Helen crazy woman story, that just feels like a filler afterwards. The kid is annoying, but they usually are in these kind of movies. 5,5/10.

My wife and I watched this in Shudder as she's a big Discovery of Witches fan and Teresa Palmer was in this. Unfortunately this was a mash up of several other films, with The Omen, Midsommar and Rosemary's Baby springing to mind, but without being anywhere near as good.

Palmer does a lot of the heavy lifting, and does reasonably well with quite thin material. The reveal was unsatisfactory, with a character basically reading the exposition.

On the whole, added nothing new to the genre.