Duped

Rating: 4/10 (6 July 2016)

It's not often I get completely duped and screwed by IMDb ratings, but the 6.8 (especially for a horror film) led me to buy this movie before even first watching (save your judgment, I buy movies all the time before watching and due to a decent amount of research and a pretty good intuition with movies, I rarely get burned). But this movie is an exception. I see many people writing positive reviews applauding the movies "psychological horror", and I'm really at a loss as to what they're talking about. I look for only a few things in horror movies (I'm an avid fan), A: Logical and interesting story B: at least decent acting C: some feelings of being scared, unsettled, disturbed, something....this movie severely lacked in the most important one....C. Where was I supposed to be scared? Sure, there was some atmospheric tension with some decent score to accompany, but it lacked severely in anything visual...and after all, it IS a film. I like when a movie makes my mind wreak havoc, but my mind can't MAKE the movie. And if it's supposed to be ALL psychological, well, it just didn't do anything for me. Might I also add, visual does NOT mean gore. I cannot stand movies that lean on gross out gore. Some of my favorites include The Conjuring, The Babadook, The Exorcist, Cube, Sinister, and The Thing. Idk, overall pretty disappointed after reading generally positive reviews and seeing positive ratings. Not a HORRIBLE movie, but I wouldn't exactly recommend it. 4/10.