There are two kinds of reviews for this movie.
A. Unearned, glowing reviews clearly written by friends, family, or maybe even AI.
B. Rants written by those that paid to watch the movie and were disappointed.
I saw this on STARZ during a free preview, so here's my 100% unbiased opinion:
Anyone that watches tons of film, especially horror, or knows anything about making them will see how obvious it is that this outcome is a production issue not a creative one. The acting (by *almost* all) was decent to great. I wouldn't say excellent for anyone, but Lula and the girl from CBS's Equalizer really tried. She's the only actor I recognize and, based on her age here, I'd say this movie was filmed at least 4-5 years ago. My theory is that it got abandoned for awhile (due to covid??) and was edited by a couple of uninvested freelancers when it was picked back up again. On top of that, someone told them to turn a 2+ hr character-centered horror into a 90m trope-reliant horror, and that never should have happened.
Every single scene was cut to BITS, leading the movie to look like the writing was incoherent. The first scene where this was obvious was when the neighbor and his son were hunting. They appeared out of nowhere, complaining about things that never happened. I immediately knew at least 3 mins were missing from there.
Throughout the movie, I had so many questions about why there was no character development happening, but the minute the family would start bringing something up, the scene would cut to the next. The movie cut so fast from scene to scene that it gave me a stress headache. The poor redhead sister clearly had some importance to the final scenes, but was almost completely removed from the movie.
Let's not even get on the mist...whoever did the cgi for this film, did them dirty. And I'm positive that there were originally some romantic scenes from the implied glances (and the missing time when they were in his bedroom) that would have made his betrayal sting a bit more.
I would have loved to see this same movie in the hands of Jordan Peele (and the big budgets that follow him). The actors and *full* plot would have certainly shined.
A. Unearned, glowing reviews clearly written by friends, family, or maybe even AI.
B. Rants written by those that paid to watch the movie and were disappointed.
I saw this on STARZ during a free preview, so here's my 100% unbiased opinion:
Anyone that watches tons of film, especially horror, or knows anything about making them will see how obvious it is that this outcome is a production issue not a creative one. The acting (by *almost* all) was decent to great. I wouldn't say excellent for anyone, but Lula and the girl from CBS's Equalizer really tried. She's the only actor I recognize and, based on her age here, I'd say this movie was filmed at least 4-5 years ago. My theory is that it got abandoned for awhile (due to covid??) and was edited by a couple of uninvested freelancers when it was picked back up again. On top of that, someone told them to turn a 2+ hr character-centered horror into a 90m trope-reliant horror, and that never should have happened.
Every single scene was cut to BITS, leading the movie to look like the writing was incoherent. The first scene where this was obvious was when the neighbor and his son were hunting. They appeared out of nowhere, complaining about things that never happened. I immediately knew at least 3 mins were missing from there.
Throughout the movie, I had so many questions about why there was no character development happening, but the minute the family would start bringing something up, the scene would cut to the next. The movie cut so fast from scene to scene that it gave me a stress headache. The poor redhead sister clearly had some importance to the final scenes, but was almost completely removed from the movie.
Let's not even get on the mist...whoever did the cgi for this film, did them dirty. And I'm positive that there were originally some romantic scenes from the implied glances (and the missing time when they were in his bedroom) that would have made his betrayal sting a bit more.
I would have loved to see this same movie in the hands of Jordan Peele (and the big budgets that follow him). The actors and *full* plot would have certainly shined.