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Slow, shoddy, and scattered movie

posted 10 years ago by GCrockergirl92
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*spoilers*

I wanted to like this movie, I really did. And before you get defensive and start categorizing what kind of person I am, let me clear something up. I am not ADD/ADHD and I am not obsessed with gore/violence fests. I watched the whole movie from start to end and was left feeling incomplete. The ending was completely and totally anti-climatic. Why do we never find out the bride's story? Why was the movie focused on death, especially killing off the hero of the story (one of my pet peeves)? The death in this movie seemed so pointless. Why does the old man kill himself? A lot of it seems to happen with out rhyme or reason.

It's almost as if the film tries to be complex and deep, but somehow gets lost along the way. If there is any complexity in this film, I have failed to see it, or it simply does not exist. At least, you cannot see it without listening to a director's commentary or reading what the director was going for. I don't find it particularly fair to do that to an audience. So, I feel totally blindsided and not satisfied with the ending. There were simply way too many questions with out resolution.

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[–] SamFulmer 10 years ago

hm honestly, i don't think the movie was or even tried to be complex.

about the bride's story and why the old man killed himself, it's well explained in the movie. so i don't see complexity there.

about your hero death pet peeve: well, yeah. it came to me as kind of a surprise, too, but with the very end of the movie it was mentioned that claire's death was already foreseen in the psychic's reading the nights before. that moment i really liked.

i enjoyed the movie for what it was: a well made little ghost story with a lot of charm. and don't listen to people claiming that only ADHD kids didn't enjoy it. if you didn't like it, you didn't like it. it's okay. i really liked it. and that's ok, too.

If you start sitting around the campfire, telling scary stories -- change our names!

[–] GCrockergirl92 10 years ago

Well, I would say they "lightly addressed it." They really didn't find out the REST of the bride's story. I want to know who hid her in the cellar. I want to know what happened that made the groom not want to marry her. If they could've actually made the contact with the bride more compelling, instead of her just doing jump scares, I think it would've done the movie more justice.

And the old man? No... I don't think they tell us his name. I don't think they told us why he killed himself either.

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[–] rebekahrox 9 years ago

He came to the hotel specifically to kill himself because he was so lonely without his beloved late wife. He had to have that room because its where they spent their honeymoon.

[–] Don_Cheech 8 years ago

Allllllllllrighty then... Didn't see that coming. Creeped me out. watched this movie last night. Honestly don't know what to think. I feel like
little details like this slipped past me. I didn't really get why the old guy killed himself. But now it makes sense. Disturbing indeed. The pacing is still pretty debatable though. Not much going on for about 70% of the "film". i too wanted to like this film. house of the devil is classic. the sacrament was good. This is a step below the sacrament though. 5/10. Not enough plot.