Okay, so I have to preface this by saying that I watched this based on the pedigree of the writer/directors without so much as glancing at the trailer. By the writers/directors of Inside, one of the greatest horror movies ever made?!? I couldn't download this movie fast enough!
So the premise is that there is a Youtuber couple who want to take their channel to the next level by scuba diving to an intact house at the bottom of a lake. Okay, I've seen hundreds of horror movies in my time, but I have never seen or heard of one where the setting is submerged house, meters below the surface of the water. It was nice to be given something unique for a change, and it started off really promising....
and then it fizzles into a wholehearted MEH of a movie that could have been so much more if they just pushed it further. First of all, the physics inside the house were all over the place. I mean, I get that they needed to allow the couple to freely traverse the place without constantly bumping into chairs and phones and stuff, but come on! We had certain objects just laying there, as if they weren't submerged at all, just sitting on desks like they were above water. The next scene, there'd be pianos and chairs floating all over the place. At least be consistent with your setting!
Then it's the actual "horror" in this horror film. Jump scares annoy the living hell out of me, and this movie was just one jump scare after another. I mean, are these the same guys that made a movie about a nurse cutting a baby out a woman's stomach? What happened? When did they start making juvenile, tween horror films that rely on jump scares instead of being truly disturbing? I was hoping for a twisted plot about the ghosts of a deranged family trapped in a house after it became part of a dam. What I got was a lame story about child sacrifice, revenge of the town's people and not even a full exposition, just some half-hearted explanation that made me roll my eyes in a "we've seen this a hundred times" type of fashion.
Man, I really wanted to like this movie, and it really did have everything going for it; the acting was good, the setup was strong, and the actual action was mostly clean and easy to see. But then the "ghosts" all looked like they were holding their breaths and it just ruined everything from that moment on.
Waste potential from two dudes who could have done so much more, but I guess profit beats artistic integrity these days, doesn't it? What a shame.
At least the ending was realistic and wasn't ruined by American horror movie standards.
So the premise is that there is a Youtuber couple who want to take their channel to the next level by scuba diving to an intact house at the bottom of a lake. Okay, I've seen hundreds of horror movies in my time, but I have never seen or heard of one where the setting is submerged house, meters below the surface of the water. It was nice to be given something unique for a change, and it started off really promising....
and then it fizzles into a wholehearted MEH of a movie that could have been so much more if they just pushed it further. First of all, the physics inside the house were all over the place. I mean, I get that they needed to allow the couple to freely traverse the place without constantly bumping into chairs and phones and stuff, but come on! We had certain objects just laying there, as if they weren't submerged at all, just sitting on desks like they were above water. The next scene, there'd be pianos and chairs floating all over the place. At least be consistent with your setting!
Then it's the actual "horror" in this horror film. Jump scares annoy the living hell out of me, and this movie was just one jump scare after another. I mean, are these the same guys that made a movie about a nurse cutting a baby out a woman's stomach? What happened? When did they start making juvenile, tween horror films that rely on jump scares instead of being truly disturbing? I was hoping for a twisted plot about the ghosts of a deranged family trapped in a house after it became part of a dam. What I got was a lame story about child sacrifice, revenge of the town's people and not even a full exposition, just some half-hearted explanation that made me roll my eyes in a "we've seen this a hundred times" type of fashion.
Man, I really wanted to like this movie, and it really did have everything going for it; the acting was good, the setup was strong, and the actual action was mostly clean and easy to see. But then the "ghosts" all looked like they were holding their breaths and it just ruined everything from that moment on.
Waste potential from two dudes who could have done so much more, but I guess profit beats artistic integrity these days, doesn't it? What a shame.
At least the ending was realistic and wasn't ruined by American horror movie standards.