A Bridge Too Far

Rating: 4/10 (23 November 2018)

I want to start by saying that I love horror movies, but I've been disappointed by so many lately due to their lack of originality and their tendency to be less that scary.
This movie is definitely original. It is also creepy in a way that builds as the film progresses.
Unfortunately, whilst I don't expect every element of my movies to be realistic, there are a couple of areas of this film which ask me to suspend my disbelief too far.
The most annoying of these is the fact that a teenager goes to a party and gets stoned. He has been forced to take his younger sister with him and on the way home an horrific accident occurs and she dies.
Does the fact that he was stoned cause him problems with the law? No, it doesn't. The police are not even called. A headless child is buried and there is no sniff of an investigation.
This same teenager is clearly having issues after the accident and is withdrawn during classes at school. How do the parents and teachers get together and support him? They don't, they seem to ignore it completely.
The younger sister has a severe nut allergy which plays some part in the accident which takes place. It's ok though, they make medicine for emergencies like that, right? Yes... but the family seem to take no care to EVER take an epipen anywhere with them.
Any of these things could have helped the situation to a more positive outcome... but then the writer would have had to have worked a bit harder than if they were just ignored.
A creepy film, with lazy writing, which builds slowly and then seems to realise that it might be a bit too long and rushes to a disappointing climax.