Inheritance

Boring. Constant shots of lead male grimacing. Over-use of cliche horror ambiance music with ZERO reason in horror or suspense. Fell asleep 4 times during this. Trust me....skip it. Dont listen to the good reviews. Indie this is. Good it is not.

-- There are roughly 3 types of rating on INHERITANCE (2017): 1 star, 6/7 stars, 9/10 stars. It's obvious that someone's apple is another one's poison. And some people in between regard it a slightly above average apple. No. This is not an apple to my eyes. Neither this a poison which kills 90 something minutes of my life. INHERITANCE is thin, slow, hardly nutritious or savory. Taste it once is enough, and I don't fancy a second bite; -- You need a great deal of patience watching this movie; -- The only interesting part is the beach house (and its view); -- Turn away if you're looking for entertainment, or the minimum level of shock/scare fun of "normal" horror films.

Hands down the worst film I have ever seen in my entire life. I am absolutely gutted that I wasted 90 minutes of my life that I will never get back. There was no storyline whatsoever, I cannot tell you anything that happened in this film as nothing did. It was like watching a stranger in his life walking and sitting for 90 minutes. Nothing made sense, it was beyond slow and super boring and totally pointless. I have no idea what the film is about or what happened. Please do not watch. You will regret it.

*** REVIEW UPDATED 2019-12-30 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

3.6...? Seriously...? Pretty harsh for what in my lowly and wretched opinion is pretty good film. YES, it is ULTRA-slow. YES, it is completely ambiguous. But, that is the point... It fits the mood of the story.

What people seem to have forgotten is, at least what is important to me when I come here to read reviews, is, 'Is the movie made well?' And to me, the clear answer for this film is 'Yes' Moody, slow-building, LOTS of David Lynch influenced cinematography and atmosphere to spare. Sure, for a lot of people I understand that this kind of Horror just isn't their thing. I can see where to some a movie like this would certainly come across as B-O-R-I-N-G.

Just out of curiosity, I looked at a number of reviews on different sites for this movie, and most praise it fairly highly for it's slow-build subtlety and very keen and effective sense of dread, which is greatly increased by a powerfully effective soundtrack.

So, basically I feel that is the bottom line here. And, don't get me wrong, I frigg'n LOVE over-the-top Horror films like 'RE-ANIMATOR' and such. I think they are GREAT! But... I also really appreciate very serious, restrained, tension-building, dread-filled Horror where Atmosphere is everything (BTW, if you do happen to like this kind of film, I HIGHLY recommend the Psychological masterpiece 'SESSION 9')

This one definitely has a more Artsy approach which understandably will clearly not work for everyone. But, just to rate this well acted and extremely well photographed / edited / directed movie and give it a '1' or a '3' just doesn't make sense and doesn't really do anything to help others who like me really appreciate this kind of rare, quality, slow-burn Horror film. To me anyway FWIW, it certainly beats the living $hit outta most of the superficial and somewhat mindless Horror on cable these days...

This one truly engages your imagination...

Slow burn really isn't the word, because it was just so boring, and had no pay off. What even happened to the plot? The 3 sentence synopsis I read before deciding to watch it, is honestly the entire plot, there's nothing extra to add by watching it.

There's some kind of "second cousin" that the script didn't know what to do with really. The main character spends a lot of time silent, which adds to the dull.

The story isn't explained much, where is the horror in this film? I honestly don't get why it has that label, it's not a horror film. Honestly it was just really dull. I couldn't even tick spoilers, because honestly it's all in the synopsis of the film. There's no spoilers.