Right off the bat: It isn't bad, at all. My fresh teen and even tween grandkids would enjoy it because it isn't too gory or even bloody in the traditional sense. It's blatantly fiction, kids cannot be too terribly terrified when it's something like this. Sure, any dog can bite. Any dog that large can potentially kill a child, certainly bite a child--which is scary enough when it is a dog you love and loves you back--that is more frightening to a relatively logical child that actually has pets; having to go to the hospital to get intravenous antibiotics (even a small bite get the Emergency Room hopping around like kangaroos). At best, a dog bite can leave a mark. So in our home, that would be the most realistic horror. Kids know that.
The rest, however, is sheer folly and fiction. I agree with the other review where what happens to the mother--the monster SHE became--THAT is horror.
Again, for kids, I'd have say ten out of ten. They don't need details and backstory as much as adults do when rating a movie. I wanted to know everything about that "lake," and the rib cage in it, the demon inside: SO many branches and leaves to this story, it almost inspires me to write my own back-stories and endings (along with tertiary tales because why not) for the movie myself.
Or have the kids come up with their ideas for it. Score a few points for homeschooling, filed under creative arts, literature, English grammar...yeah. That's MY plan for the elder grandkids.
Still miffed about lack of story, being an adult. The movie is not awful, tho. Horror for any parent whose child turns to drugs, because if you make it allegoric, it's a definite nightmare horror full of fuel. Any parent of an over dosed child can concur.
The rest, however, is sheer folly and fiction. I agree with the other review where what happens to the mother--the monster SHE became--THAT is horror.
Again, for kids, I'd have say ten out of ten. They don't need details and backstory as much as adults do when rating a movie. I wanted to know everything about that "lake," and the rib cage in it, the demon inside: SO many branches and leaves to this story, it almost inspires me to write my own back-stories and endings (along with tertiary tales because why not) for the movie myself.
Or have the kids come up with their ideas for it. Score a few points for homeschooling, filed under creative arts, literature, English grammar...yeah. That's MY plan for the elder grandkids.
Still miffed about lack of story, being an adult. The movie is not awful, tho. Horror for any parent whose child turns to drugs, because if you make it allegoric, it's a definite nightmare horror full of fuel. Any parent of an over dosed child can concur.