We want love in horror genre!..

Rating: 9/10 (8 February 2017)

Modern day compositions seem to lack the element of refinement with patience... Everything is so fast that in a couple of years a good number of practices and ways will be altered with speed for the sake of non-persistent productions. And the horror genre, in the field of cinema, has been exposed to this tendency the most.
On the other hand, this movie tries to whip off the horror genre. Not because of its strong originality, but because of its devoutness in cinematography, screenplay, and acting.
Not only the lead actors are of the best quality, especially Ms. Vera Farmiga, but the rest of the actors helped it seem like the story actually "was" taking place when we see it.
The scenes were prepared carefully along with the unvarnished, austere movements and shots of the camera.
The screenplay was originally derived from a true story, yeah. But it is not the sole reason behind the success. In fact, the writers changed it a lot to the point that it had cooperativeness, helpfulness and love that was missing from the original story at the time of which the people and the media treated the Hodgson family as zoo animals.
Okay. Time for truth...
Every horror fan knows that a good horror movie should scare us really well and be of originality doing it. But if we look at randomly selected 100 movies, we were to see that most of them chooses a way that contains emetic amount of blood, stupid decisions, musical pieces that were composed rather by chance, the showing up of the killer out of thin air irrationally when you least expect it, the appearance of the killer / the monster after the character(s) cuts in the frame and thereafter steps aside, etc... We could really go on...
But this one kept as far away from these commonplaces as possible. Of course it is not a huge success for that matter. But their centering the story not around the horror but around love is the real achievement of this movie.
For I would not find anyone that won't notice the love between the lead characters and their compassion towards people (in need). That is what the world needs. Yep!
I will give this movie a "8,2". Yes. Love.
Hey Mr. Patrick Wilson! Hey Ms. Vera Farmiga!.. Great to see you perform!.. :-)
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The Gracious Koran speaks on matters in its 2nd Chapter called "The Cow"; the 177th Verse. Amen.