Not a scary movie

Rating: 5/10 (30 June 2017)

Suspense and subtlety. These are this movie's main strengths. It's carrying this tray full of glasses slowly and carefully. Everything is carefully constructed as the movie keeps the viewer on top of the story with little hints. There are no loud screams or startling sounds. The movie continues to carry this tray until the end and then...it just drops and smashes everything onto the ground with its comically ridiculous ending. What the heck, movie?!
Although this movie is in many ways a prototype for the modern horror movies, it is in many ways the opposite of those movies, as it is not a horror movie. It is not even a thriller. Instead, it is a mystical psychological drama and it is a very slow- cooking one at that. This can mean that for many who are expecting to get excited, this movie will be quite boring. My girlfriend quit it half way out of boredom, and I understand where she was coming from.
At least we had a few laughs about how bad some of the acting was. The writing for the dialogue was rather poor as well.
This is not a great movie. It is nice to see something that attempts to approach the occult material with subtlety, but it is still poorly acted and not particularly interesting. And as I mentioned, that ending is f- ing horrible.