How in the world did this score so high? The actress playing Emma did a great job, yes, but it was boring and forgettable with no climax. Before snobs begin with the "you only hate it because there isn't any blood and guts...blah blah blah.." I will stop u right there. I can appreciate a slow burner. I also appreciate when characters have a purpose? Who was Jacqueline- the teen who was taking pictures and intruding? It made no sense to me. Just a C movie through and through.
8 Reviews
More family melodrama than horror
Leofwine_draca5 June 2017
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EMMA is a wearisome indie horror effort about a traumatised young woman and the haunted town in which she lives. I say horror but it's more like a 'would be' horror film because this plays out as a cheap family melodrama for the most part. There's a lot of tears, a lot of worried faces, and a cheap repetitive feel for the most part. At least half the running time seems to be made up of a woman driving a car in close up, which isn't my idea of fun.
Half-baked horror
edgy-827-48696517 September 2018
Well, I just waste 1 hour of my life for like nothing. Looks like someone just forget 20 mins of film, when they edit it. What happens? It was telekenesis (like in that 70s film) or just she was a psycho or its all just lame this-it-was-dream? I really don't know, because they even did not tell me. Actors play decent, yes. But its just not a film without... well... SOMETHING at the ending. I did not ask about explanation, no, just give me something better than nothing.
Waste of time
ndslaughter14 November 2020
Stupid
africe6 February 2020
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It took me 3 days to complete this atrocity. Worst movie I've seen in a while. Too much shaky camera work while the movie had no direction. Jumped around too much to go nowhere and have no ending. (Well, think dream sequence). The whole switch from black and white to color was annoying.
The film was really good
jacjones-957824 January 2022
Very interesting psychological indie horror
carolinemonfilsfr6 July 2017
I started this movie with no expectation and I got hooked right away due to a different visual choice to start the movie and make the transition after we are introduced in Emma's world. I like that the movie talks and shows what happens in our minds in the darkest moments. I like the approach. If you look for a movie with zombies and blood jumping on the screen for sure it is not your type of movie. I think the girl (Emma) did a fantastic job and the relationship between the parents is perfectly portrayed. I like how at the end everything is connecting all the dots which during the movie you think have been left behind. Saw the movie with my husband and we both enjoyed it.
Better than average
nebilcs-168-16529810 February 2019
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I understand some of the dislike for this and acknowledge that the film has some flaws. It is clunky in places, the acting of the parents is sometimes a little stagey but the part of Emma and her brother are acted very well. With just a few tweaks, the plot could have been much tighter and satisfying. All that said, I thought the story was told in an interesting and unusual fashion with plenty of aspects left open to interpretation by the end. Was this all a hospital-bound dream ? Was Jacqueline a personification of Emma's self-awareness trying to break into her fake reality ? A cut above most linear horror narratives, I think.
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