plummetingparadise

The title of this review might sound like I'm writing off the show, but the reality is when it comes to Julio Torres I think you really don't need much more. More to the point the worlds that live within him are so big in size and number they don't really leave too much space for anything else. His work is both hyper specific and so vague it could be and is about everything. If you've seen his stand up special where he plays with toys and tells you about them while being disarmingly charming and funny you'll have some idea what to expect. Ultimately his work isn't for everyone, but those who like it will really, really like it.

It's truly amazing that a film with the budget this one has can be built upon a script that is so fundamentally bad. For me a huge part of what makes a scary story is a well developed or thought-provoking monster. This film treats its main source of fear as a complete and total afterthought with little to no explanation of what it is or where it came from or why we should be afraid, even the image of the monster looks like a halloween costume someone put together at the last moment. The first insidious was mostly decent because there was a story behind the monster, and it was a pretty decent story. This movie almost feels like it's preparing us for movies written by AI - it's got all the ornaments of a horror film, but none of the substance, the story that actually makes it scary.

Good horror movie if you're sick of bad acting and poor story telling as Rebecca Hall really puts her heart into the film and the story is well paced and compelling. I highly recommend this to fans of horror and suspense.