7/10
This is a pretty intense movie that makes the feeling palpable of how it is to see a loved one become more and more distant and ultimately crumble and fall apart in front of your eyes. You cannot stop or change it but must try and accept and learn to live with it.
That being said the allegory is being dealt a little heavy-handed at times, as you get where this is going early on in the film. The film over-plays its horror elements a little too much for my taste and I think it might have been even better if they had relied more on the strong story and the tension between the three women and generations and less on scare tactics and darkness. Still, a very strong and recommendable film.
This is a pretty intense movie that makes the feeling palpable of how it is to see a loved one become more and more distant and ultimately crumble and fall apart in front of your eyes. You cannot stop or change it but must try and accept and learn to live with it.
That being said the allegory is being dealt a little heavy-handed at times, as you get where this is going early on in the film. The film over-plays its horror elements a little too much for my taste and I think it might have been even better if they had relied more on the strong story and the tension between the three women and generations and less on scare tactics and darkness. Still, a very strong and recommendable film.