No substance no quality

Rating: 3/10 (30 June 2018)

Back from cinema with the film fresh in my mind, It's late now and I am tired so a short review. First off how this has a 7.7 at time of writing I have no idea. The film is really long and slow, so slow that it almost drags to a stop, close up camera shots of anguish and pain on faces linger way too long, which shows up in even more detail the rather over the top acting in it at times, especially from main female actor who pulls so many faces in it it was almost cringe worthy, despite her being a decent actress I felt she over acted a lot here. The art of acting is not looking like your acting and she failed completely, you could almost see the cogs go round in her head. Film was at least 20/25 mins too long. Pacing was all over the place, too many painfully slow scrolling panning in shots from the sides that took an eternity to get to the main subject. Plot was thin, very thin . There's a good 90 minute film in there somewhere but opportunity wasted. I actually laughed at least 6 times, which isn't good considering it's a serious horror film. Hammy, cheesy nonsense. Only reason I give it a 3 out of ten is it had some good ideas and some scenes I hadn't seen before did in a slightly differnet way from other horror films I have seen, but for me I couldn't wait till the end and was actually thinking of leaving the cinema an hour in. Silly boring film. I don't mind slow moving films that build tension but this had no tension and no payoffs for the long waits. No horror either, more a drama with some horror thrown in. Why they killed off the weird daughter early on is beyond me and the ending is cheesy hammy nonsense. Best avoided completely.