regonzalez-20510
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This limited series begins with a social gathering and a story being told. A good way to begin any ghost story.
The heart of this story is the au pair. She arrives at her new job haunted by memories and trauma of a recent death. We know nothing about this death and that takes time to unravel. Which is good. She steps into a job and place that has it's own trauma, which she is warned about. Exactly what that trauma is seems simple at first, two children shaken by the deaths of their parents. But the title of the limited series let's us know that there is more to this. This is a story with layers to it. Each layer interesting and each takes time to strip away. There is slow tension to this series. You begin to care for the main characters and don't want to see them come to harm. It has a sense like knowing that a loved one is in critical care in a hospital. But you can't go to see them. So each day you wait either for their death or their voice on the phone.
A weakness is the children, especially the boy. It's harder to care for them then it should be. Otherwise I may have given a higher rating.
On the whole this is a well made ghost story. The acting is good throughout. It avoids the main tropes of startling shocks and gore. It develops the characters, none of whom are standard fodder for horror flicks.
The heart of this story is the au pair. She arrives at her new job haunted by memories and trauma of a recent death. We know nothing about this death and that takes time to unravel. Which is good. She steps into a job and place that has it's own trauma, which she is warned about. Exactly what that trauma is seems simple at first, two children shaken by the deaths of their parents. But the title of the limited series let's us know that there is more to this. This is a story with layers to it. Each layer interesting and each takes time to strip away. There is slow tension to this series. You begin to care for the main characters and don't want to see them come to harm. It has a sense like knowing that a loved one is in critical care in a hospital. But you can't go to see them. So each day you wait either for their death or their voice on the phone.
A weakness is the children, especially the boy. It's harder to care for them then it should be. Otherwise I may have given a higher rating.
On the whole this is a well made ghost story. The acting is good throughout. It avoids the main tropes of startling shocks and gore. It develops the characters, none of whom are standard fodder for horror flicks.
This is a movie that is frightening on a sub conscious level. In the hands of another actor and director it could be a standard action film. But it isn't. It's a film that is frightening because everything in it is familiar yet disturbed.
Other reviewers will tell the plot of the film and it will sound like a thriller. It's more than that and not really that at all. Have you ever been alone on a NYC subway car at 3:30 am and known that the other 4 people in that car were not normal and capable of extreme violence? There is an unsettling fear in that. You wish you had a gun. Then you wish you just weren't there and on another car. There is an unsettling fear in that and so that same fear permeates this movie. The story, the director and Phoenix bring that.
This is worth watching. I dreamt of it, and I never dream of movies. It is unsettling. For that reason unique.
Other reviewers will tell the plot of the film and it will sound like a thriller. It's more than that and not really that at all. Have you ever been alone on a NYC subway car at 3:30 am and known that the other 4 people in that car were not normal and capable of extreme violence? There is an unsettling fear in that. You wish you had a gun. Then you wish you just weren't there and on another car. There is an unsettling fear in that and so that same fear permeates this movie. The story, the director and Phoenix bring that.
This is worth watching. I dreamt of it, and I never dream of movies. It is unsettling. For that reason unique.