Move along, folks; nothing to see here. This is just another bland, check-the-requisite-boxes horror movie. A family buys a sprawling mansion at a dirt cheap price, and oh no! As the title of the film suggests, they're "Not Alone".
Let's start with the sale of the house, near the beginning of the movie. Even before the family signs on the proverbial dotted line, strange things happen while they're touring the house, including finding a ritualistically slaughtered chicken in one of the rooms. "Nothing to worry about!" the realtor showing the mansion proclaims. "It's just the neighborhood kids." The family buys this lame explanation without batting an eye, even though the father correctly guesses that the realtor has an ulterior motive for wanting to be rid of the property.
The family buys the mansion and moves in, and the strange occurrences continue. The youngest child thinks that he sees something moving under the pool cover, and of course, his parents blow him off. The father hires a service to clean the pool, and of course, the daughter becomes hopelessly smitten with the pool service guy from the second that she lays eyes on him. The pool is cleaned, and there is no sign of whatever it was that the son thought that he might have seen.
False alarm, right? WRONG! Shortly after the pool is cleaned, the mother gets pulled into the pool by some unseen force and is nearly drowned. The father goes into the pool to see what it might have been that grabbed the mother, and he comes up with a submerged tree branch. He directs the family to stay away from the pool for the time being.
More strange hijinks ensue, and the family is reached out to by a disgraced PhD who tells the mother that he knows exactly what is going on with their house, even though he's never been there. Moreover, he boldly proclaims that he is literally the only man on the planet who can help them, and invites himself over to the property.
There are suggestions throughout the movie that the source of these strange occurrences are related to voodoo practices and hostile spirits. WRONG! The real culprit is a semi-translucent extraterrestrial being who is virtually invisible in water, and lives in the pool. This alien creature is trying to drive the family out of the house and off of the property because, yanno, semi-translucent, water-dwelling extraterrestrials always have a keen eye for real estate deals and luxurious architecture. Well, it's actually an extradimensional creature, and not an extraterrestrial alien. Apples, oranges, y'know.
As dumb as this movie is before this disgraced PhD shows up to save the family, it gets even dumber after he arrives and explains what the true culprit is.
Almost all horror movies these days rely heavily on the lead characters making the stupidest, most unrealistic, implausible decisions when threats loom, and the characters in this farce are THE textbook definition of this kind of stupidity. The PhD that shows up to help them is volatile and erratic, and yet the family obeys his every instruction without question. And as the movie progresses, and you think that things can't get any stupider and more inane, the filmmakers prove you wrong. "Not Alone" is about as dumb as it gets.
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