I just finished watching this movie, and it's defiantly theater worthy. Yeah there might be some ideas taken from different movies mostly another one of my favorites like the "The Cell" from 2000. With sprinkles of 1408, Inception, Insidious. And I loved the end of the movie. I'm defiantly watching this one again, and seeing it as one day being a cult classic of a movie.
sharelolsy well it was pretty dull
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I defiantly think this is a fun watch but mucked up by the need to have whispery voices followed by deafening sound, and the orange and teal fad. I thought both lazy trends died out ages ago. Same with the early on jump scare to engage the audience. That cheap stunt sends me to sleep. And the end scene I saw coming from miles away.
Still, it was fun. I liked it, despite my nitpick.
Those fads may have faded, but when this was made in 2013, maybe they weren't "over" yet?
shareYeah they're not even over yet. I was just having a spit because both of those fads really distract me. The sound thing in particular really pisses me off.
The use of orange and teal in this was nowhere near as bad as I have seen some colour editors pushing it - often so much I end up feeling nauseous.
This was an ok film. I enjoyed it, but needed to have a nitpick.
I thought it was pretty decent when compared to a lot of horror films I've seen recently which have much higher ratings.
shareWhen it first came out in theaters I saw all the bad reviews and I swept it under the rug just figuring it was another horrible cliched Hollywood cash grab like all the other horror that comes out constantly. I happened to pop it on demand the other day just for the hell of it, and I honestly was very pleasantly surprised with how much I ended up liking it. It may have been because my expectations were so low, but I had a great time with this film. Definitely going to watch again. Nothing ya know GROUNDBREAKING but definitely a step up from the usual trash we've been accustomed to being exposed to in the recent years.
shareI was also surprised how much I got into it. I think the problem is that there is a large crop of people now who are used to formula horror, and people who actively seek out jump scares and/or gore. Movies that are subtle or build ambience in lieu of these things will not go down well with this group of people.
This film was not brilliant. I can easily point out some flaws, but I was still able to enjoy it even though I found the main character difficult to like (I like redemption arcs but his fell flat as there was nothing there) and his development rather sparse difficult to believe. Typically if I don't like the way a major character is written, I'm not going to stick around long, but somehow the actor sold it and I was curious about how the boy would be saved anyway.
The use of the [spoiler]injection-- an obvious Chekhov's gun[/spoiler] was predictable, though I will admit I was surprised by the Exorcist "homage" toward the end. The final scene irritated me a lot, though. [spoiler]This film would have stood a lot better on its own without a cynical attempt at turning it into sequel fodder.[/spoiler] That being said, it was still immersive enough, enjoyable, and not at all deserving of a measly 5.2 rating on imDb.