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A bit surprised at the low ratings

posted 9 years ago by omnimog
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Listen, I'm not really one of those junk-devouring horror-fans whom passionately try to find something good in every movie in this genre. Sooner the opposite. I do watch my share of horror and the likes. But I do watch most anything in any genre, and I tend to be very, very critical to horror. That said, I actually found this to be pretty well made. Yes, it had it's share of jump-scares. It didn't reinvent the wheel. But it was a good flick, and to me, more suspenseful, well acted and most everything else than most of it's siblings. So seriously, how come the very low ratings, both user ratings and metascore?

[–] samgiannn 9 years ago

The whole movie was jump scares. There was no moment of dread or suspense throughout the movie, and it's extremely dull because of this. The story seems like it would be mildly interesting, and the production value looks pretty good. It wasn't horrible, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

[–] yusef-ghanima 9 years ago

ignore them, they are just masonists who are upset because they are exposed.

i mostly will not be able to answer your reply, since marissa mayer hacked my email, no notification

[–] ehaas-3 9 years ago

I think it had a lot of good ingredients--interesting premise, very nice locations, mostly good actors, etc., but it just didn't come together somehow. Maybe the pacing was off. The info about the cult came too late. There were a lot of filler scenes.

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[–] writerchick89 9 years ago

I agree with you, and I'm not the only one. I don't know what those who are bashing the movie watched. I just watched it a second time, and there were things that bugged me about it, but still I really liked it and thought the actors were good. It wasn't ALL jump scares, and why do people hate jump scares so much anyway? But it did have a mood and atmosphere, not just jump scares.

I don't know what anyone else thinks of the premise/what "Joseph" was trying to prove, but that was the thing that makes me mad when I watch it--that with ALL the evidence, he stubbornly clings to his theory as the only possible explanation. To me that was just stupid. How does "energy" go all the way to the campus & burn Krissy or bite Joseph? I mean his thinking, to me, anyway, was seriously messed up, and his explanations were weak. I liked Brian, Harry, and Krissy, though.

Fiction is a lie, and good fiction is the truth inside the lie.--Stephen King

[–] lettyatuni 9 years ago

No, I disagree. I completely understand the low ratings. The film was mediocre, and it is frustrating, because it could have been a lot better. The pacing was really off, there was no suspense and most of the 'twists' were pretty obvious.

It's annoying because the setting was very beautiful, the characters weren't too bad, and slow paced films with a few jump scares can be very good and atmospheric (see A Tale of Two Sisters.) But compared to other horrors, this seemed amateurish.