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An average movie

Posted : 3 years, 7 months ago on 4 August 2020 10:40

To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since it was directed by Mike Flanagan and since it was available on Netflix, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, even though Flanagan might be one of the most interesting up-and-coming directors in the horror genre, this movie was seriously disappointing though. I mean, there were a couple of interesting ideas but it is always difficult for me to care when they mix such interesting and real issues like trauma and insomnia with the most basic and generic fantastic tropes of the horror genre. As a result, you get such scenes during which a therapist would make the most interesting remarks of the whole movie about the nature of dreams but it was completely discarded and they focused instead on some random generic bogeyman. To make things worse, the lovely Kate Bosworth was pretty weak here. First of all, even though she was supposed to be deeply depressed and sleep deprived, she was always fresh-faced. Her performance was also far from being convincing but she wasn’t helped by the fact that the psychology of the characters was barely developed at all. I mean, through most of the duration, she was a grieving mother but, suddenly, she completely changed and became some kind of expert private investigator who conveniently figured out the whole thing during the last 10 mins. Finally, the ending was pretty weak as well. I mean, the logic/concept was not bad but the way to get there was so rushed and convoluted and I don’t think it is really necessary to explain every single piece of mystery at the end of such horror flicks. Anyway, to conclude, even if I have seen worse, it didn’t care much for this damned thing and I don’t think it is really worth a look. 



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