Watching this "new" film, I kept getting that nagging feeling that I've already seen it. You know the feeling; you find a movie and you tell yourself, "This looks interesting! I'll give it a shot!" only to find yourself getting 10-20 minutes in and realizing, yes, I've seen this already, but it was so bad that your mind completely forgot it did?
Well, I haven't seen this film before, but everything about it was so damn familiar, like a Frankenstein's monster mix of so many other (much better) films. It starts out with the death of a child, then turns into A rosemary's baby of sorts, then it veers off into psychological horror territory and the whole time I'm thinking, "Who was this movie made for". It wasn't scary, it wasn't eerie, it was actually ultimately quite sad. In the end, the movie does a complete 180 degree that gets to an ending that could be seen from a mile away, but the lead up was so disjointed and flawed that you start to wonder if it was a mishmash of more than one script to try and salvage a decent enough film from their mutilated corpse? It's just so baffling to me that a movie that was obviously inspired by so many good films could still fail this badly. It's shocking really.
Ultimately, this movie is about a man who would sacrifice his own life to help the woman he loved. It's not about children or their mother. It's about a man who suffered in silence while his whole family was taken from him. He put on a brave face, like so many men like him do, and entered the battlefield of mental illness. He wasn't prepared, though. Like so many before him, he had to sacrifice his life in order for the people he loved to face reality (and in the case of this movie, it's still not enough).
Overall, ask yourself;
Am I looking for a horror movie? Don't watch this.
Am I looking for a creepy cult film? Don't watch this.
Am I looking for a good ghost story? Don't watch this.
Am I looking for a depressing story about mental illness and how some men are utterly destroyed, in silence, trying to help those they love? Then, and only then, would you want to watch this miserable movie.
Everyone else, just don't even bother.
Well, I haven't seen this film before, but everything about it was so damn familiar, like a Frankenstein's monster mix of so many other (much better) films. It starts out with the death of a child, then turns into A rosemary's baby of sorts, then it veers off into psychological horror territory and the whole time I'm thinking, "Who was this movie made for". It wasn't scary, it wasn't eerie, it was actually ultimately quite sad. In the end, the movie does a complete 180 degree that gets to an ending that could be seen from a mile away, but the lead up was so disjointed and flawed that you start to wonder if it was a mishmash of more than one script to try and salvage a decent enough film from their mutilated corpse? It's just so baffling to me that a movie that was obviously inspired by so many good films could still fail this badly. It's shocking really.
Ultimately, this movie is about a man who would sacrifice his own life to help the woman he loved. It's not about children or their mother. It's about a man who suffered in silence while his whole family was taken from him. He put on a brave face, like so many men like him do, and entered the battlefield of mental illness. He wasn't prepared, though. Like so many before him, he had to sacrifice his life in order for the people he loved to face reality (and in the case of this movie, it's still not enough).
Overall, ask yourself;
Am I looking for a horror movie? Don't watch this.
Am I looking for a creepy cult film? Don't watch this.
Am I looking for a good ghost story? Don't watch this.
Am I looking for a depressing story about mental illness and how some men are utterly destroyed, in silence, trying to help those they love? Then, and only then, would you want to watch this miserable movie.
Everyone else, just don't even bother.