Ayla

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.

I watch an hour of this film which I will never get back. The cover makes it look like an Insidious type title. I expected some horror but it was dull and uninspiring. In the hour I watched next to nothing happened except some weird sex scene. I wanted so much more but it didn't deliver.

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.

Brother and dead sister sexual tension with a "wait, was that the ending?"

Right, well needless to say that I was lured in to watching the 2017 movie "Ayla" given the movie's cover, its synopsis and the fact that Dee Wallace was in the movie. Granted, I hadn't even heard about it, as I sat down in 2021 to watch it.

And let me just say that if you stumble upon this movie, leave it be and move along to something else. Because "Ayla" was such a swing and a miss from writer and director Elias.

The storyline told in "Ayla" was unfathomably boring and slow paced, despite of the synopsis selling the movie's story pretty well. But believe you me, this movie was a mundane heap of nothing happening. It is monotonous in its pacing, which made it feel like the actual movie was twice as long.

It should be said, though, that the acting performances in "Ayla" were actually not bad. But the actors and actresses literally had nothing to work with in terms of a proper script, an interesting storyline or overly well fleshed out characters.

I was expecting this movie to be a horror movie, but unless you consider slow pacing and a storyline of nothing interesting as being horror, well...

"Ayla" is not a movie that I would recommend you waste your time, money or effort on. It simply isn't worth it. My rating of this 2017 movie lands on a generous three out of ten stars, based mostly on the production value of the movie.