The 3 star rating, and all the bad reviews I can't at ALL understand. This film is not the typical possession film, why not? Because it's not JUST about the jump scares, or the blood...I was VERY surprised that I grew to care about the characters in this movie, they really give us reason to care...this dad is struggling and not just the typical "I lost someone so I'm sad"...but he's suffering from a mental illness.
The movies sets all have a very dark and grim element to them, I guess to make us feel like we are in the characters gloomy world.
Okay, so the story is very solid, the acting is above average, the characters are very good...how about the heart of the movie? The demon possession?
LOVED IT!!! The scene when we first see the demon in the halway that has those strange spider like legs? I LOVED IT!!!! A+ for creature design, you never really get to understand what the demon looks like just because it's so abstract, it looks like something out of Silent Hill, and they did a great job!!!
So...HOW ON EARTH did this film get only a 3 star rating????? My only guess is because it's main audience was likely fans of "The Grudge", "Vatican Tapes" "Parabormal Activity" and all those other shallow, heartless, JUMP SCARE movies that don't make us care...they substitute story and character development with buckets of blood and jump scares.
This film is a shining example of originality in a sea of copy after copy. The demon is something I've never seen, the way the possessed persons eyes are, I've never seen that before either.
I'm VERY harsh and critical of haunting/possession films because they're always the same junk. This was different!!
Was it an amazing film?? No, I'm just in shock at the low rating and can't understand it at all.
The movies sets all have a very dark and grim element to them, I guess to make us feel like we are in the characters gloomy world.
Okay, so the story is very solid, the acting is above average, the characters are very good...how about the heart of the movie? The demon possession?
LOVED IT!!! The scene when we first see the demon in the halway that has those strange spider like legs? I LOVED IT!!!! A+ for creature design, you never really get to understand what the demon looks like just because it's so abstract, it looks like something out of Silent Hill, and they did a great job!!!
So...HOW ON EARTH did this film get only a 3 star rating????? My only guess is because it's main audience was likely fans of "The Grudge", "Vatican Tapes" "Parabormal Activity" and all those other shallow, heartless, JUMP SCARE movies that don't make us care...they substitute story and character development with buckets of blood and jump scares.
This film is a shining example of originality in a sea of copy after copy. The demon is something I've never seen, the way the possessed persons eyes are, I've never seen that before either.
I'm VERY harsh and critical of haunting/possession films because they're always the same junk. This was different!!
Was it an amazing film?? No, I'm just in shock at the low rating and can't understand it at all.