Despite the rating i decided to give it a chance as I wanted to watch a few horrors in a row tonight.
Started with The Ritual (2017), then Evil Dead: Rise (2023) and now this one. Sadly this one was the worse out of the bunch with The Ritual actually delivering on what was a low budget flick.
This one could have had a great 3rd act like The Ritual if it didn't try to stick with sterotypes and short cuts.
A nice slow burn with an interesting twist that is let down with the usual, oh no its a bible thumping patriarchal led family who are trying to save the females.
If the writer just stayed with a evil cult it would have had a much higher reception and rating.
I think viewers are tired of the same streotypical shortcuts that film makers take these days that let down what could be a great story driven film.
Also, the lead is supposed to come from a loving adoptive family who care very much about her. Yet, she, an adult females goes overseas without telling the one person who has always had her back. Imagine being a female in todays world and doing going to a foreign land not knowing anyone or the language thinking you a Sherlock Homes.
The fact she fact telling strangers, even if they are supposed to be her family, that she didn't even tell her father where she was that very moment?
Imagine raising a child, specially a female to be that naive.
I am a male and even I have been assualted in another city walking home at night, so even I am careful about who knows how much about me.
There is no love for the lead character as a viewer because you ecpect her to be hurt because of all the stupid decisions she keeps making.
Oh, remember her father was a cop?
Well, no cop parent would raise a naive child like her. They would be drumming into them about precaustions to take every single day the moment they stp out into the world.
Pros: Interesting plot Originality Great twist
Cons: Terrible acting by lead Stereotypical male characters Lack of realism Terrible parenting tropes.
Started with The Ritual (2017), then Evil Dead: Rise (2023) and now this one. Sadly this one was the worse out of the bunch with The Ritual actually delivering on what was a low budget flick.
This one could have had a great 3rd act like The Ritual if it didn't try to stick with sterotypes and short cuts.
A nice slow burn with an interesting twist that is let down with the usual, oh no its a bible thumping patriarchal led family who are trying to save the females.
If the writer just stayed with a evil cult it would have had a much higher reception and rating.
I think viewers are tired of the same streotypical shortcuts that film makers take these days that let down what could be a great story driven film.
Also, the lead is supposed to come from a loving adoptive family who care very much about her. Yet, she, an adult females goes overseas without telling the one person who has always had her back. Imagine being a female in todays world and doing going to a foreign land not knowing anyone or the language thinking you a Sherlock Homes.
The fact she fact telling strangers, even if they are supposed to be her family, that she didn't even tell her father where she was that very moment?
Imagine raising a child, specially a female to be that naive.
I am a male and even I have been assualted in another city walking home at night, so even I am careful about who knows how much about me.
There is no love for the lead character as a viewer because you ecpect her to be hurt because of all the stupid decisions she keeps making.
Oh, remember her father was a cop?
Well, no cop parent would raise a naive child like her. They would be drumming into them about precaustions to take every single day the moment they stp out into the world.
Pros: Interesting plot Originality Great twist
Cons: Terrible acting by lead Stereotypical male characters Lack of realism Terrible parenting tropes.