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A young college professor and his pregnant wife unwittingly release a malevolent entity with murderous intentions.A young college professor and his pregnant wife unwittingly release a malevolent entity with murderous intentions.A young college professor and his pregnant wife unwittingly release a malevolent entity with murderous intentions.
Yvette Yates Redick
- Emily Harper
- (as Yvette Yates)
Bailee MyKell
- Sexy Demon
- (as Bailee MyKell Cowperthwaite)
Curtis Nichouls
- Corrections Officer
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
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Did you know
- TriviaThe young girl Lisa sees inside the crib bears a striking resemblance to Esther from Orphan (2009). They wear the same blue dress, have the same dark hair in two pigtails, tied with ribbons, and have the same dark eyes.
- GoofsThere's no such thing as an American university that's short on qualified teaching staff in the Math department, as Dr. Clark said. There are so few tenure-track teaching jobs left, that there would be major competition for Professor Pierce's position, no matter how haunted the faculty housing was, and no matter how many parapsychology courses the head of the Math department taught.
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Good production values but dumb script
The gorgeous cinematography and mystery of the prologue had my hopes up that this was going to be a good horror movie, but as the events unfolded my expectations sank ever lower by a poorly thought-out screenplay.
First, there is the lack of subtlety in events and dialogue, best exemplified by the claim that "1+1 is sometimes something other than 2" with which the movie repeatedly hits you over the head (it turns out that is actually correct: with the right mathematical structure, you can make it come out something else, see for example the "trivial group").
Further, the scientific side is pure fantasy: there would be no shortage of mathematicians, the notion that a math chair would also be a professor in parapsychology is preposterous, and the math professor is made to say things a real mathematician would never say. One statement that really grated: "matter can neither be destroyed nor created" (No, it is ENERGY, and technically that is true only locally; they obviously did not hire a scientific consultant).
Many of the spooky events serve no other purpose than to provide a cheap scare, and there is a distinct lack of consistency in that a being with the powers shown could easily accomplish other things that in the movie it fails to (most egregiously, without giving away too much, preventing the final action).
Because the Science vs Spirituality aspect is handled so poorly, the presumed overall message, that there are things which cannot be explained by logic and rationality alone, falls flat.
Finally, the entire story was way too formulaic, I could predict the ending a little past the halfway mark. The good production values, slightly marred by cheap-looking cliche CGI effects, could not compensate for the inanity of the script.
First, there is the lack of subtlety in events and dialogue, best exemplified by the claim that "1+1 is sometimes something other than 2" with which the movie repeatedly hits you over the head (it turns out that is actually correct: with the right mathematical structure, you can make it come out something else, see for example the "trivial group").
Further, the scientific side is pure fantasy: there would be no shortage of mathematicians, the notion that a math chair would also be a professor in parapsychology is preposterous, and the math professor is made to say things a real mathematician would never say. One statement that really grated: "matter can neither be destroyed nor created" (No, it is ENERGY, and technically that is true only locally; they obviously did not hire a scientific consultant).
Many of the spooky events serve no other purpose than to provide a cheap scare, and there is a distinct lack of consistency in that a being with the powers shown could easily accomplish other things that in the movie it fails to (most egregiously, without giving away too much, preventing the final action).
Because the Science vs Spirituality aspect is handled so poorly, the presumed overall message, that there are things which cannot be explained by logic and rationality alone, falls flat.
Finally, the entire story was way too formulaic, I could predict the ending a little past the halfway mark. The good production values, slightly marred by cheap-looking cliche CGI effects, could not compensate for the inanity of the script.
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- Jan 28, 2022
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- Budget
- $3,500,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $1,204,393
- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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