Cassadaga (2011)
6/10
Reasonably entertaining, but with some annoying flaws.
19 June 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Sure, it's entertaining enough to sit the whole movie out, but that's about it. The story is a mixture of supernatural horror, and a psychotic serial-killer on the loose, with as extra a lovestory. It's all a bit too much, as a result there isn't enough focus on either of these story-lines, they all stay too sketchy.

Main character Lily is deaf, but apart from continuously mentioning it to the people around her, nothing else is ever done with this, it doesn't serve any purpose in the story. The same goes for the lovestory that takes an important part of the movie: short before the climax of the movie it simply dead-ended with a puff, having led to nothing. The makers built-in a potential plot-twist, by making one person conspicuously suspect, but when they out of the blue introduced a totally unknown other person for hardly one minute, it was only too obvious that he would turn out to be the real culprit.

The acting of Kelen Coleman as Lily was okay. Louise Fletcher has a very small part, unfortunately way too small to really sink her teeth into.

After the closing credits there's a small piece of extra, and for a few moments it looked promising, but it turned out as the usual cliché jump-scare message that "it isn't over yet!!"
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