Scary? Atmospheric? I guess I watched the wrong film. I really hated this film, the lead actress was pretty weak and she was mostly brought down by the horrendous script. I love how it took like the 13th weird occurrence and then she thought that someone was messing with her, not sooner but after all of these impossible occurrences happened. I also hated how the film couldn't even create it's own cult, the cult was such a rip off of The Manson Family. If you want to see a great thriller involving a possible cult, watch The Invitation. The practical effects were greatly appreciated though and were executed quite well. However, the use of lame jump scares and scenes ripped out of Poltergeist and A Nightmare on Elm Street ruined any suspense.
The twist was also horribly executed, could have possibly worked if fleshed out but it felt tacked on. It really boggles my mind that modern horror flicks like this, Southbound, Sinister, V/H/S, etc. get praise, they're horrendous. It bothers me that those films get the pass from critics but even other recent horror films like 30 Days of Night and The Mist or 90s horror like The Exorcist 3 and Event Horizon got poorer reviews. This film sucked...just my opinion.
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jbaxtron
8 years ago
Personally love VHS, all three were good, but I do remember a particular short in (the first?) where there is the cult of devil worshipers who all kill themselves at the same time... Holy *beep* what happens next...
That being said I also LOVED The Mist, and event Horizon. I honestly couldn't finish The Exorcist 3, kept falling asleep on two separate viewings.
I did watch The Invitation a couple weeks ago. Just amazing. Thumbs up.
As far as The Last Shift and the main character not catching on quickly, there's certainly a level of disbelief that needs to be addressed. We KNEW something was messing with her because it is a horror movie. A lot of adults would not jump to that conclusion right away. Hell some people could stand directly in front of the devil after he appears out of thin air, he could introduce himself, recount your deepest secrets, bitch-slap you, then levitate away and they still wouldn't believe anything supernatural just happened. Some folks just won't accept things.
Yes the ending was not great, but by that point I had enjoyed so much of the movie that even if they pulled off masks and in true Scooby Doo fashion it turned out to be Ol' Willy the janitor the whole time I still would not have cared. It was the journey to that moment that I enjoyed so much.
So yeah I forgave the ending.
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kcott44
8 years ago
I can see what you're saying but I can only handle so much disbelief from a character. I don't even think it was the way the character was written but is the fault of the weak acting job from the lead. The segment you describe is from the first V/H/S and was probably the best story even though I didn't care for it. I did really like the second though, I honestly thought the third was one of the worst films ever made. I love Exorcist 3, I really do but I really dig slow burn horrors that focuse on characters and are simply, powerful in terms of emotion. The Mist and The Invitation did that great as well.
It seems like I'm in the minority with a lot of recent horror films, there are very few I like and most that I like are either interchangeable in genre or unknown.
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