An average movie

To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but, since it seemed to have a decent reputation, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, I always had a weak spot for minimalistic features and, on top of that, even if I’m not a religious man, I have always been fascinated by religion so this movie definitely had some potential. I have to admit that, after I watched the trailer, I was expecting this ominous house to become some kind of huge labyrinth but the scale turned out to very small after all but it wasn’t an issue. Still, the material was completely in my ball park and it all worked fine up until the Hugh Grant’s character showed up with his ‘prophet’. Indeed, I was quite intrigued by this theological debate between the 3 characters but, from this moment, they kind of lost me though. I have to admit that, at first, I was also rather skeptical about Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East. Indeed, I never saw them before and I thought they would be the usual pretty faces that you get in your average horror flick. However, both girls were actually pretty good and there was more depth to their characters than I expected. And, of course, it was quite a blast to see Hugh Grant, once the 90’s King of the romantic-comedies, playing a deranged serial killer in a horror flick this one and the guy really nailed it. Instead of getting them involved in some weird non-sensical gory theatrics, they could have developed more these characters though. Indeed, as long as these 3 characters were involved in  some kind of theological debate, I was really in. By the way, I was amazed that none of them ever mentioned the concept of ‘faith’, the fact that you actually believe, not because it is supposed to make sense but because you simply chose to believe. Anyway, to conclude, even if it didn’t completely work out, it was still a decent watch and I think it is worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

6/10