The Chosen

It's been a while since I've seen a movie so terrible I quit part way through. I'd actually been doing a fairly good job of selecting half way decent movies. This time I struck out (that's what I get for going with Netflix selections for me).

The plot of the movie is straight forward (I guess). Lilith, the first wife of Adam (as in Adam and Eve) is a child stealer because yada yada yada. That's pretty much what it sound like to me once the woman said Adam had a wife before Eve that was banished from Eden for not obeying Adam.

At any rate: child possession... weak scare tactics... ominous music... poor acting... etcetera etcetera... I quit.

This film is visually interesting and disturbing, yet the acting seems wooden at times. It appears to rip off a rather more well know horror film in unimportant ways or at least refer to them. There are nice atmospheric touches throughout, and what we learn about the characters as they develop adds to the creepy feel of the piece as a whole. Willing suspension of disbelief fails occasionally, but there is plenty of detail to add a sense of creepiness to the film overall. On the one hand it is a bit difficult to keep track of who is related to whom, and in what way, but this, too, adds to the effect of the film as a whole. Films referred to seem to include The Exorcist and The Shining.

Another flick that picks in on the genre that is so popular nowadays. The possession. Here we do have a daughter being possessed by a demon only to be exorcised by killing people with the same bloodline.

So far so good and the acting was mediocre so on that part i didn't had any problems but it's the CGI effects used that made it a low profile flick. The demon appears in some kind of cloud to attack it's pray. The cloud is done CGI and isn't believable. To summon the demon they have to put a sign on the chosen body with blood. The problem is that the blood used didn't look like blood, way too red.

There's nothing scary and the atmosphere build with the grandfather in his wheelchair is a bit lame. Still, it's watchable but once the end credits are running you are already forgotten this flick. Are you the chosen one to watch it?

Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 1/5 Story 1,5/5 Comedy 0/5

How can I put this? You know how when you go to the dentist to have root canal work done and the dentist tells you that you may experience some 'discomfort' afterward and what he really means is that you'll be in agony once the anaesthesia wears off and you'll just want to lie down in a dark room and pray for death rather than live through one more second of the pain shredding its way through your nervous system? Yeah. This movie. This movie right here is like having root canal work carried out on your soul. Forget it. Don't watch it, don't look at it, don't even bother reading the rest of this review. For real. You will find no redeeming qualities in this movie. Okay, so maybe the main guy was OK acting wise. I do have one question for the movie producers...what was with the end credits soundtrack choice? Really? You're gonna hit us with some trap rap hip hop tune that was in no way related to anything that happened in the movie and really really really didn't go with the atmosphere (or lack of) that you tried (and failed) to aim for? Nope. I'm out. NEXT!

Well, it was at least amusing for how pathetic it was. But my friends and I couldn't finish it because it got boring after a little while.