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Well-made psychological horror flick with a great performance by Rebecca Hall. It can be considered a slow burn but I was fully invested and never bored. Very atmospheric. Lots of beautiful shots. Some effective scares. Great movie overall and I would definitely watch it again.
(2 viewings, 2/7/2022, 4/21/2024)
(2 viewings, 2/7/2022, 4/21/2024)
For the first hour of the movie I was very much intrigued by this slowly but effectively unfolding story, getting more and more bewildered, just like main character Beth, by the weird and scary goings-on. The photography is great, and beside a nice sinister atmosphere, there are multiple jump-scares to keep you on the edge of your chair. Rebecca Hall carries the whole movie admirably, she's totally convincing, first as the grieved and forlorn widow of a husband that out of the blue committed suicide, subsequently as the exasperated woman who thinks she's losing her mind. She's not trying to win our sympathy with her aggrieved and angry behavior and her heavy drinking, but you do team up with her when her world turns upside down on her.
Unfortunately in the last half hour, when you expect that all loose ends finally will come together, the story went totally overboard, every other new thing that Beth finds out about her husband only made the narrative get more and more incomprehensible, and at last the weirdness and confusion escalated into a conclusion that was really too mind-boggling, at least for my simple brain.
But maybe expecting some logic in a supernatural ghost story is a bit naive anyway.
Unfortunately in the last half hour, when you expect that all loose ends finally will come together, the story went totally overboard, every other new thing that Beth finds out about her husband only made the narrative get more and more incomprehensible, and at last the weirdness and confusion escalated into a conclusion that was really too mind-boggling, at least for my simple brain.
But maybe expecting some logic in a supernatural ghost story is a bit naive anyway.
THE NIGHT HOUSE (2021) *** Rebecca Hall, Sarah Goldberg, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Evan Jonigkeit, Stacy Martin. Compelling supernatural drama about a recently widowed woman (Hall in a remarkable performance) who begins to question her sanity when she begins to make discoveries of her late husband's past as well as their home which seems to house a sinister presence. Well directed by David Bruckner with just the amount of dread and genuine jolts thanks also to a shrewd screenplay by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowsk. The pin-pricking score by Ben Lovett & handsomely shot cinematography by Elisha Christian makes all the difference in this modern day ghost story.
First there is Hall who, until now, has been punching below her weight class and finally gets to show she can carry a film. A tight script, nicely directed. And some genuinely scary scenes.
Good pace, Brilliantly acted, and above all intense and genuinely creepy......
But,
And this is where it looses me...
Being Vague isn't intelligent.
So many films these days just skip over that little part where it all comes together. Where the plot thickens. They avoid massive plot holes And just look the other way.
There are whole scenes in this movie that have absolutely nothing to do with anything, they are only there to be scary and mysterious, but don't further the plot or are even explained in anyway.
It's A Mystery if the Writer clearly has no idea how to end it?
Would "Seven" have been a better film if we never found out "Whats in The Box"?
Anticlimactic
Leaving the viewer to fill in the voids is lazy storytelling.
Rant over.
But,
And this is where it looses me...
Being Vague isn't intelligent.
So many films these days just skip over that little part where it all comes together. Where the plot thickens. They avoid massive plot holes And just look the other way.
There are whole scenes in this movie that have absolutely nothing to do with anything, they are only there to be scary and mysterious, but don't further the plot or are even explained in anyway.
It's A Mystery if the Writer clearly has no idea how to end it?
Would "Seven" have been a better film if we never found out "Whats in The Box"?
Anticlimactic
Leaving the viewer to fill in the voids is lazy storytelling.
Rant over.
Did you know
- TriviaWhen Beth flips through photos on Owen's phone, one of the first photos shown is of two men laughing. The photo is of the film's screenwriters, Luke Piotrowski and Ben Collins, who met in high school in Georgia and began writing together in college.
- GoofsWhenever the stereo switches on to show a presence, it plays the same CD. However, the screen on the stereo always shows that FM is selected and it's tuned to 87.4, the starting point of the FM tuning spectrum where no channels exist.
Not necessarily an error: it could just as easily be part of the mystery of supernatural occurrences.
- ConnectionsFeatured in How Sound Is Used to Create Suspense in Horror Movies (2021)
- SoundtracksThe Calvary Cross
Written by Richard Thompson
Performed by Richard Thompson & Linda Thompson
Courtesy of Universal-Island Records Ltd
Under License from Universal Music Enterprises
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- Gross US & Canada
- $7,100,581
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,859,409
- Aug 22, 2021
- Gross worldwide
- $15,437,703
- Runtime
- 1h 47m(107 min)
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- 2.39 : 1
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