Ayla

Don't bother... just a whole waste of time if you actually wanted something interesting and scary... this fails on every aspect of a decent film. Poor characters, bad acting, and worse story...left wondering 'what the heck!?'... why did I bother... turned off half way through.

The premise seemed to grab the attention of many. While knowing it was a lower budget film but thinking it could be decent given the premise and concept, in the end "Ayla" doesn't offer much and is disappointing.

The film sounded relatively different but what we watched was a slow paced, confusing, and quite dull drama. Labeled as a horror thriller, there aren't any thrills or real scares. The horror aspect is from the "bringing back from the dead" and supernatural type elements.

The lead actor wasn't very convincing. Tristan Risk as Ayla was the standout yet she wasn't given much to do. The mother was quite annoying.

As an independent film, the writer/director could have went far more over the top and all out crazy. It was relatively tame. Expected more crazy, more bizarre and more off the wall.

Also the ending was not clear and was severely underdeveloped and disappointing.

OK - so this film isn't going to appeal to the gore fans, but it is a decent film to watch.

It is very well acted, the technical aspects are spot-in, and the story - well - it's almost there but not quite.

This film moves along at a leisurely pace, so if you have the attention span of a goldfish it won't appeal to you, and probably won't if you are looking for light entertainment.

This film will appeal to you if you like a story where you can get to know/understand more of the characters than just the superficial scream-fest characters we see in so many other films.

One thing does let this film down very badly, and that it the ending. I just don't know what they were thinking ending a film like this.

Well this starts off pretty boring but at least it shows a couple t's in the sex scene which meets our requirements for putting a sex scene in a movie. +1 Star

Dude doesn't see chica's reflection in the mirror during that so that was the indication of something bizarre going on!

So then the movie goes through a period of very slow dialogue. -1 Star.

And a really long boring driving sequence. -1 Star.

And then dude gets locked in a room and screams and then somehow gets out and then goes and digs in the dirt and comes out of there with a naked girl that I guess is supposedly his sister? Very bizarre but ... -1 Star ANYWAY! More driving? Couldn't they have just put in there like '2 days later.....'

Then Old Billy runs the Sunshine Motel. We like Old Billy. This ain't Old Billy's first rodeo!

Oh and naked girl is awake now and somehow has clothing! She likes bouncing on the hotel bed.

Then more driving? You really gotta be kidding me. This certainly ain't no RAIN MAN. Boring driving! -1 Star.

Okay so then some mad hotel sex. +1 Star Brother and Sister tho?

Or am I confused?

Okay and then it's over. Amazingly bad. 2/10.

It's not scary, not well acted, and it's very, very boring! Please don't waste time watching this!