antoniuswendy

SEASON 1 REVIEW. This review will change after the next seasons come out.

I'm surprised by many reviewers here giving low rating. Because I don't think "La Brea" is bad at all. In fact, I really love this serial. At least that's what Season 1 to me, so far.

There are many people complaining about the dumb cliché story ideas, such as a father who keeps getting visions of other world and tries to save his family when he realizes all the visions are real. There are so many mysteries that seemingly impossible to be answered, but you know what?

You know what?

The seemingly-impossible-to-be-answered are getting answers, one by one, with logical explanations that will blow your mind. This is the strongest aspect of "La Brea" that surely will crush all those negative reviews. I bet many of those reviewers don't finish watching the first season and blaming this series as an idiotic show.

Of course, by the end of Season 1, there are still so many questions left unanswered, but with some logical explanations we already get, I am very optimistic that we will get the answers on the next seasons.

This movie is particularly interesting, since the evil "play nice" for almost the entire time, before showing its true evil intentions when a major character tries to uncover the truth. That's when all hell break loose.

For a horror movie, it's not just the presence of the evil entity (or ghost, if you'd like to call it that way) that makes it scary. What's really scary is the philosophy behind it. This movie isn't all about the haunting, but the way behind how the evil acts, how they work, to make us believe that they're not a threat to us.

Because that's what evil does. They play nice at first, before we realize the danger. But when we do, it's already too late. And this doesn't just apply to horror movies, because this concept is real. It's all around us.

In my opinion, for a horror movie that doesn't have wide audience target as other movie genres, "Ouija: Origin of Evil" is really deep and thought-provoking. It's well made and deserves all the love from any horror fans.

If you watch this movie, you may: (a) notice logical errors, especially the lighting aspect and some sound aspects, (b) feeling confused because the video call layouts keeps changing, (c) the characters keep making punch-able faces when declaring stupid decisions, (d) the characters are supposed to be calm at some scary moments, but their annoying body language are so stupid which makes you wish them to be dead, (e) feeling entertained and satisfied when the characters you really hate finally get stabbed.

I feel satisfied after watching this movie. Not because it is a good movie or "moving my soul" or anything. I can't sympathize with any of the characters because I don't know much about them (the characters are so thinly written). But when they show stupidity, that's when I choose side with the villain.

That's not really what this movie wants, but what's stopping me from enjoying stupid people making stupid decisions and getting stupid consequences?