Bryan-1893

A very good effort from SOME of my people here in Trinidad, my country. Why such a low rating? Well there was some things I just cannot overlook despite my patriotism.

POSITIVES - on the bright side - they used really expensive cameras and got some high quality shots including some nice drone shots. The Father character was by FAR the BEST actor - the only person I can call an actor in the movie - his scenes felt like an actual movie.

The director if she in fact did control the camera shots did a good job of shooting it well. It didn't look amateur in that way.

I do not know if foreigners were involved in making this movie - for instance a video and audio team who took that responsibility - but I wouldnt be surprised if there was. I doubt everyone was Trinidadian unless it was all wealthier than usual people. But nevertheless - the director did a good job shooting things and I could hear every dialogue clearly so hats off to that!

Now to the stuff I am critical of. Before I speak on it I do want to congratulate the Director - I could tell she gave a good effort and I would have liked to see her instead do a small production even just with her alone and not a big team helping because the film feels like 'too many cooks in the kitchen' - Let's get into it.

The acting is by far the worst part of this movie FOR ME. I realize many other reviewers all said they adored the star girl's acting and the star villain. While yes the villain's acting is passable - he wasn't challenged to do anything that hard in any scenes but whew - the star girl's acting was just really - it could have used a LOT of work and i mean a lot lot lot.

I even tried to like her acting but EVERY single word she said took me 'out' of the movie. It felt very fake and even cheesy because of the added script - her dialogue - the voice overs made little sense to me - The writer of this movie really needed to work a lot on it before getting to shooting.

I think the talent on this movie would have worked better for a lifetime movie or 'tv special' that was a legit 're-enacted documentary' - docu-drama. Minus all dialogue - and minus need for story -

When it comes to the villain - I am guessing we were supposed to feel sorry for him - compassion for him - but I DID NOT. In fact, I just saw him as a petty criminal horrid person more and more as the movie went on until I hated him more than anything to the end - why ? Because I didn't have any need to feel sorry for him - he didn't have some hard life - and even if he did - who cares? It doesn't give him the right to do crime. So I guess the movie completely missed me on that.

Next I don't mind the speaking of proper english on movies coming out of the caribbean because newsflash - WE DO SPEAK PROPER ENGLISH and not all of us use 'TRINI SLANG' - with a heavy 'TRINI ACCENT' - so that's fine - but this movie seemed to have people speaking a strangely 'forced' mix of proper english and trini slang accent which again, took me out of the movie - it became distracting and felt inauthentic, but maybe that's just me - I just felt like they were saying things in a weird sounding way.

The Father sounded normal as could be - I think if everyone talked like him it would be a big improvement and again, call me unpatriotic if you want - but it's my opinion.

In conclusion - It was a good effort - but a lot in this movie 'took me out of it' and downright made me stop wanting to watch (and not in a good way). I think it was stretched out way too far. The entire first half could have been shorted to a few minutes even. Again - the story/script writer - I would have suggested revising.

We dont get movies made by Trinidadians in Trinidad so this was a welcome surprise. I don't know why no one makes movies but hey - that's just how it is. So I guess when a movie like this gets made, especially with some international connections (?) - distributions - it is congratulated at the getgo. I hope that my own congratulations to the movie were heard clearly - but at the same time - I had to be honest because I disgreed so much with a lot of reviewers especially local reviewers in my country.

I think everyone involved in the movie was a GOOD PERSON- I'm trying not to be a 'hater' here - Good on you all - But this is a 2 out of 10 for me. Take care all.

Okay I will keep this short. I congratulate the director for completing a project. Most people do not. I congratulate the actors/actresses for a job well done (for the most part) - I think the writing and direction was more the problem than the acting itself -

I congratulate whoever did the sound - you did well.

What i didn't like was how everything just felt uninteresting. The dialogue was so soft i could hardly hear it then BANG big jump scare and that annoyed me a lot. The makeup was good - the creature good - I just couldnt 'get into' this movie at all. I'm sorry but it just felt phoned in - in a way I find hard to really explain.

I'm no director or movie star etc - but I'm just a fan of horror and I think the other movie these main actors were in (aftermath 2021) - was way better but even that was not a movie i particularly liked. It was good to see them return to do a movie together but eh I don't like this movie much man - Maybe someone out there will like it - I'm sure some will - For me just bleh - I admit i stopped paying attention halfway through - so was 'here n there' - but by halfway I had mostly 'checked out' -

I'm glad to see others write better more informative reviews. Is it just me or are movies getting a bit more phoned in as time goes on? I dunno i just feel like that. They have killer cinematography but other than that - I dont know - it's not like a lot of movies in the 90's where there was something interesting about it - hard to explain.

I'm not used to 'blumhouse' horrors - But i happened along this movie and I think it did a great job - it looks very good - professional - and the acting from the star woman is great - she herself plays a very sad person - self defeated and that topic is handled very well.

I dont have anything bad to say about this movie - I think it was careful handling the topic of depression and it was pg13 which was amazing bc it is very dark matter for such a rating. I've struggled a LOT with depression and I felt this movie honored it - while still having a story and entertaining horror elements.

I wasnt scared but i felt the dread of the main star and there is horror in that dread. I think they kept the story simple but yet it is psychological - and again it's pg13 so good on them for doing a good job. I dont know how anyone can call this a bad movie. Sure it wasn't some big huge iconic thing but it wasn't bad.

I can tell work went into it and though some parts were a little annoying - i think that's forgiveable - It's actually a smarter movie than i expected - I was impressed with the latter part of the movie. I also wanted to mention that i gave it 6 but maybe that's just bc I am very harsh - don't know - Most movies are a 2 to me, so this getting a 6 is actually very good.