Dreaded Light (2022)
5/10
Interesting ideas, but sort of dropped the ball.
24 September 2022
Warning: Spoilers
This could've been better with another ending. I guess they ran out of funds. Also, the whole "let me explain everything" from the daughter in the last 10 minutes was too easy. Several things went on that sort of made me roll my eyes. Like, why would the father readily take random pills offered by his daughter who is already acting weird AF? He then begins to hallucinate and hear weird music, and doesn't put two and two together. At dinner later in the film, why would he and the medium let her pour wine but not drink it herself, knowing she's overtly hostile to both of them? Why didn't he catch the "I'll kill her" when she held the knife to her own throat? And - more importantly from a "watchability" standpoint - who wrote the gawdawful music for the film? It was truly terrible, generally inappropriate to any given scene, and a complete distraction at times. Meh. The kernel of the story was solid, but the execution was rather lacking. A $3 rental - could've been worse; could've been a lot better.
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