Wow....this film really was truly awful! I never choose a movie unless I watch trailers of it first (or if it's a film I know I want to see), but goodness knows what I saw in the trailers to make me want to see this pile of boring-a** rubbish.
I really don't know where to start with this film....the extremely dodgy acting, the nonsensical script, the editing, or the direction. All of it was really just as bad as each other if truth be told. Actually scrap that....I think the writing "wins" the award for worst part because while the general outline of the story made sense, the different elements to make up the story didn't.
Also when you see things like someone knocking on the door of a house they know is empty and shouting out "Hello?"; the lights in said empty house being on ALL the time (spooks need to see where they are going do they?!); highschoolers who are all very obviously in their early 20s, then you KNOW it's bad. It's like it was written by a 10-year-old. Then again, a 10-year-old might have come up with something better.
The editing was just as bad with it jumping from scene to scene the way it did as if a scene wasn't done before it suddenly went onto the next. They never led up to each other either....they just chopped and changed around aimlessly.
As for the acting, well, to say that none of the performances were worthy of any awards would be the understatement of the century, and you know it's bad when one of the more believable performances is from Dean Cain! Whether it was from the wooden performance from Emily Brooks' (especially for the the possession scenes), the clichéd performance & look as a psychiatrist by Conroy Kanter, or the continual over-the-top moodiness from Will Wallace, absolutely nothing was redeemable. The only good thing about The Appearing is when the end credits started to appear.
I generally enjoy a good possession type film, but The Appearing just made a mockery of that genre. Do yourself a favour...ignore this.
I really don't know where to start with this film....the extremely dodgy acting, the nonsensical script, the editing, or the direction. All of it was really just as bad as each other if truth be told. Actually scrap that....I think the writing "wins" the award for worst part because while the general outline of the story made sense, the different elements to make up the story didn't.
Also when you see things like someone knocking on the door of a house they know is empty and shouting out "Hello?"; the lights in said empty house being on ALL the time (spooks need to see where they are going do they?!); highschoolers who are all very obviously in their early 20s, then you KNOW it's bad. It's like it was written by a 10-year-old. Then again, a 10-year-old might have come up with something better.
The editing was just as bad with it jumping from scene to scene the way it did as if a scene wasn't done before it suddenly went onto the next. They never led up to each other either....they just chopped and changed around aimlessly.
As for the acting, well, to say that none of the performances were worthy of any awards would be the understatement of the century, and you know it's bad when one of the more believable performances is from Dean Cain! Whether it was from the wooden performance from Emily Brooks' (especially for the the possession scenes), the clichéd performance & look as a psychiatrist by Conroy Kanter, or the continual over-the-top moodiness from Will Wallace, absolutely nothing was redeemable. The only good thing about The Appearing is when the end credits started to appear.
I generally enjoy a good possession type film, but The Appearing just made a mockery of that genre. Do yourself a favour...ignore this.