hannahgolla
If i want to explain how I truly feel about this movie, I cannot start from the beginning. No, I must go back even further. It was a cold Sunday afternoon, about 24 degrees. My sister and I (related by blood of course) were sitting within the walls of our heated home (because we did not want to become cold) with nothing to do. We turned on the television and found this movie on the television I previously mentioned. Our cable service is AT&T Uverse. My heart and soul was overcome with an explosion of emotion. After watching this movie, I started to not get so down on the little things in life. The plot was exceptional. Creative and dramatic. I'll be honest, I laughed, I cried, I was a child again watching the film. The acting was some of the best I've seen in years. Everything was phenomenal about this movie except...the ending credits music. I was so confused when I looked online and saw the poor reviews. I was beyond upset that anyone could say something against the picture. In my heart its...well its blasphemy. But the music of the ending credits? Well that is just not how I wanted to film to end. Not that music. It brought back memories..memories I don't care to revisit. A mixture of 90s grunge and Nickleback...the music was unsettling to say the least. So despite this being one of the best movies I have seen in my life, I need to give this rating a 2.
krismerrett
I'm writing this as the movie is still going because I can't commit to watching this anymore. There is so much happening in this movie. Creepy country house, weird little girl, ghost kids?? Or feral what was that about???, shadow figure, country bumpkin murderers, college road trip gone bad, murder pits.... It's a disaster because they don't bother connecting the concepts. It feels thrown together. This is what scares people? Let's us all of it.It's writing assuming your audience is too stupid to need a plot that makes sense. It works for some horror movies, but this just wasn't scary on top of it.The dialogue felt improvised, badly. The plot devises to separate the group to kill everyone off was terrible. There was no carry-over in motivations (Lucy was so important and then they sit on the porch and cuddle and forget about looking for her, and then later they see a shadow figure but she completely forgets about it and sits in the house crying with Lucys mom)The whole thing devolves into nonsensical chaos (which I'm watching now) which still. Isn't. Scary. It doesn't have to be a genius plot to be a good movie. Any kind of effort in a coherent plot, character motivation, and dialogue would be nice. This had none of that.EDIT oh of course it was a demon children movie. Thank god it also managed to include a scene with sexual assault and a girl running half naked because that was what this movie was lacking //sarcasm
a_baron
If you haven't seen precisely this film before, you're surely seen the type. A group of teens/college students/young adults drive off for a weekend or an event - in this case apparently some sort of rock festival - and their journey is interrupted. Here there are two girls with an extra guy playing gooseberry - that's when he isn't playing the idiot because as you might have guessed, this group is slightly dysfunctional.Their journey is interrupted rather unusually by a cute little blonde girl who has apparently lost or been lost by her grandfather. What can they do but take her home? When they arrive, the house is empty but her parents soon turn up, and they are invited to stay a while.They end up staying quite a bit longer, become isolated, one of their group is killed in a freak motor accident, and there are really weird things going on, not the least being one character we are led to believe is dead coming back to life momentarily to rescue the remaining damsel with a single dreadful act.This film has had some very bad reviews which it doesn't deserve. There are two or three genuinely scary moments due more to the suddenness of the relevant event rather than anything supernatural, but there is no proper resolution, and a film that ends with a question mark is often more annoying than enticing, as is this one.
chrismackey1972
Yawn. There was nothing new, and I wasn't drawn in by the characters or the storyline.I know some have criticized the acting, but I didn't see anything wrong with it. I've seen better, but I've also seen far worse acting in horror movies.The storyline wasn't original. It doesn't necessarily have to be. I've seen plenty of recycled story lines, but the execution of this was just...yawn. The kids should've thought something was amiss when the parents run to the doctor and leave their little girl in the care of people THEY DON'T KNOW! Even stranger, the stupid kids accept that responsibility. The story wasn't awful, just boring. I know some can look at those as being one in the same.I will say Elizabeth Di Prinzio and Chris Coy did good acting in their roles. Di Prinzio was the lead, so you have to hope she can act at least a little. She brought the right amount of emotion to her scenes. Coy was good in his role. This was, however, a step down from his role of Martin in The Walking Dead.The CGI monster at the end was silly. He was only there for about two seconds. It's just as well it was for such a short time. It was poorly done.I don't recommend, unless you have the need to see every horror movie out there. When voting commences on this, I'll give it a 4-star rating.
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