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A pregnant woman on bed rest begins to wonder if her house is haunted or if it's all in her head.A pregnant woman on bed rest begins to wonder if her house is haunted or if it's all in her head.A pregnant woman on bed rest begins to wonder if her house is haunted or if it's all in her head.
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Bed Rest" is a horror movie that had its moments of suspense and thrills, but it also had its fair share of slow and uneventful parts. The acting of Melissa Barrera was a standout for me, and her performance helped to keep me engaged in the story. The themes explored in the movie, such as pregnancy, lost pregnancy and lost children trauma, trust issues and mental health issues, made it more adult oriented and added depth to the story. However, the movie's reliance on cheap jump scares and strange whispering voices and sounds felt overused and detracted from the overall experience. The ending was not as satisfying as I hoped it would be, leaving me feeling a bit underwhelmed. Overall, while "Bed Rest" has its merits, it is not a movie that I would highly recommend.
I will be honest, this movie looked mediocre to me and my thoughts were confirmed after watching the first few minutes. It looked to be an average haunted house movie where a happy family is torn down towards the end. The only thing slightly different was that the wife is pregnant. I stuck with it to see if there was any uniqueness due to that and I'm actually glad I did. Despite the run of the mill introduction, there was actually some intelligence here and there was a lot of substance towards the end. The main actress was very good and she sort of carried this movie on her back. If this movie had the pacing it did towards the last half hour, a lot of people would stick around and enjoy it. The scare factor could have been upped for sure and should have been executed better to be really effective but overall, I would recommend it for a simple horror movie night.
The actress was horrible! Character decision was ugh, stubborn unreasonable teenager way of thinking , her reactions to multiple incidents and scenes were so off, her priorities doesn't make any sense (well that's on the director, not her, still bad execution ).
Dialogues are just forgettable. Just like some characters that the director has forgotten at the end lol Then the last act and other character's reactions? Was plain, numb and senseless .. The funny part is, the ending doesn't make sense either, you will think : "what was all this about then? What in heavens has happened?" But, is it watchable in bed while trying to sleep ? I guess yeah.
Dialogues are just forgettable. Just like some characters that the director has forgotten at the end lol Then the last act and other character's reactions? Was plain, numb and senseless .. The funny part is, the ending doesn't make sense either, you will think : "what was all this about then? What in heavens has happened?" But, is it watchable in bed while trying to sleep ? I guess yeah.
Trailer looked alright and I liked the premise. I saw reviews before watching and they were mainly negative and the ones that were positive said to wait till the end - which made me hopeful that this incredibly generic, made for tv movie would have a pay off and unfortunately it absolutely didn't.
It had all the beats and tropes of a generic horror movie you could find anywhere. There is nothing nuanced about any part of it: the script, direction, acting, story, is it in the protagonists head or real - it's all just very basic.
If you're not a fan of horror and you might enjoy this but anyone who's seen more then 10 horror films will roll there eyes at this. And anyones who loves horror or is a huge horror buff or cinefile and expects something extra will find this an utter waste of time like I did.
It had all the beats and tropes of a generic horror movie you could find anywhere. There is nothing nuanced about any part of it: the script, direction, acting, story, is it in the protagonists head or real - it's all just very basic.
If you're not a fan of horror and you might enjoy this but anyone who's seen more then 10 horror films will roll there eyes at this. And anyones who loves horror or is a huge horror buff or cinefile and expects something extra will find this an utter waste of time like I did.
Tldr; don't waste your time with this submid movie.
I cannot understand why anyone was raving about this lukewarm mess or why it garnered any high reviews here, unless someone paid for them. A grotesque lack of explanation for a series of illogical setup decisions, coupled with a last-minute plot twist that felt like it wasn't even in the script until halfway through filming because it had zero foreshadowing whatsoever, all amount to an uninteresting slog of a film that's barely worth the talent of the main cast. The jump scares are few, unimpactful and badly timed, there's barely any suspense and what little drama there is comes strictly from a cliché stereotype of a strained marriage. Trying to shoehorn some kind of "letting go" moral into the narrative just made it even clumsier and obnoxious, especially since said moral barely gets referenced again when the supernatural elements actually start playing out. One could easily cut off the first two thirds of the movie and make a much better short film out of just the last twenty minutes or so, since everything relevant to the climax of the plot only comes out at that point. Worse still, it's not bad -enough- to be entertainingly bad, no horrifically bad acting or overly ridiculous practical effects to laugh at, no scenery-chewing or overacting to give it any charm. Overall, the movie just feels like it was thrown together as they were filming by someone too convinced of their own brilliance to accept that they had no clue what they were doing and released with an unironic "nailed it" afterward like a cinematic cake wreck. It's not awful but it's simply not good at all.
I cannot understand why anyone was raving about this lukewarm mess or why it garnered any high reviews here, unless someone paid for them. A grotesque lack of explanation for a series of illogical setup decisions, coupled with a last-minute plot twist that felt like it wasn't even in the script until halfway through filming because it had zero foreshadowing whatsoever, all amount to an uninteresting slog of a film that's barely worth the talent of the main cast. The jump scares are few, unimpactful and badly timed, there's barely any suspense and what little drama there is comes strictly from a cliché stereotype of a strained marriage. Trying to shoehorn some kind of "letting go" moral into the narrative just made it even clumsier and obnoxious, especially since said moral barely gets referenced again when the supernatural elements actually start playing out. One could easily cut off the first two thirds of the movie and make a much better short film out of just the last twenty minutes or so, since everything relevant to the climax of the plot only comes out at that point. Worse still, it's not bad -enough- to be entertainingly bad, no horrifically bad acting or overly ridiculous practical effects to laugh at, no scenery-chewing or overacting to give it any charm. Overall, the movie just feels like it was thrown together as they were filming by someone too convinced of their own brilliance to accept that they had no clue what they were doing and released with an unironic "nailed it" afterward like a cinematic cake wreck. It's not awful but it's simply not good at all.
Did you know
- TriviaIn one of the scenes where Melissa Barrera is in bed, she appears to be reading "Impresiones y Paisajes", a 1918 travel book written by Federico García Lorca, a Spanish poet and playwright, one of the great writers in the Spanish language. The title of the book is in Spanish.
- GoofsOn the cover of the book by Federico García Lorca that Melissa Barrera is reading, both the name and the title are wrong: it says Frederico Garcia Lorca "Impresiones y Paisanjes", when the name is Federico and the word in the title is "...Paisajes."
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- No descansarás
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- Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada(on location)
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- $1,628,851
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- 1h 30m(90 min)
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- 1.85 : 1
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