Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueWhen young girls start to go missing within a religious cult, older followers fear a long-told prophecy while the younger members suspect abusive elders are killing them off.When young girls start to go missing within a religious cult, older followers fear a long-told prophecy while the younger members suspect abusive elders are killing them off.When young girls start to go missing within a religious cult, older followers fear a long-told prophecy while the younger members suspect abusive elders are killing them off.
- Réalisation
- Scénario
- Casting principal
- Mary
- (as Alycia Debnam Carey)
- Tobias Maker
- (as Robin Dale Robertson)
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However she was not really why I kept interest, cause frankly she wasn't that great in this one.
Luckily the other cast was slightly better, no Academy award winning performances or anything but decent enough.
I went in to it thinking it would be a horror, and even though the beginning of the movie does fall in line with that and there are horror elements that pop out from time to time in the movie I'd say it's first and foremost a drama.
And even though the horror segments are neatly orchestrated it often just don't feel like it's from the same movie sometimes, characters who at one point are shook up can in the next minute be going on their business like nothing happened, so yeah uneven direction for sure.
It's almost as if someone wrote a somewhat realistic day to day script what life in a cult would be like and then some big shots told someone else to re-write it to a horror instead so they just cut and pasted some horror segments into the script where it could fit.
And the ending is pretty awful.
5/10
The hooded figure that goes around killing people is simply too goofy to be scary, and in general the atmosphere is not tense enough. Plus, I'm no expert but I don't think it's a good representation of an Amish community.
I think the acting - I'm looking at you Alycia Debnam-Carey and Jennifer Carpenter - and the ending are what carry this film. I ended up sympathising for the devil!
Side note: weird seeing Alycia Debnam-Carey and Thomas McDonell on screen together again, hehe.
Unfortunately, there's really not many more positive things I can think to add. The way the story unfolds is completely predictable and not even slightly interesting on any level. It's pretty much the same old same old that you see in any "powers of the devil"-type horror movie. No new ground is broken.
And while the movie is far from being terrible, it's just as far away from being good and ends up as a textbook example of genre mediocrity.
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- AnecdotesAdelaide Kane, Leah Pipes, Thomas McDonell, and Alycia Debnam Carey all play characters on CW shows. Adelaide Kane plays Mary Stuart on Reign. Leah Pipes plays Cami on The Originals, Thomas McDonell played Finn on The 100 and Alycia Debnam Carey plays Lexa also on The 100.
- Citations
Mary: Father, for all the deceits I may have hoisted upon you, yours to me remain the gravest, but I will forgive you because the Bible tells me to do so, and now you shall do the same for me. Whenever you stand praying, forgive. If you have anything against anyone, forgive, because your father who sits in Heaven forgives your transgressions, and if you cannot forgive, neither will the Almighty. If you are truly sworn to the Bible, now is the time to start acting like it.
- Bandes originalesAll These Lights
Performed by The Grouch and Eligh
Written by' John Dust', Eli Nachowitz, Corey Scoffern
Published by Get Yours Publishing & Grey Crow & Pigeon John
Courtesy of G&E Music
In Arrangement with Urband & Lazar Music Publishing
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Détails
Box-office
- Budget
- 7 000 000 $US (estimé)
- Montant brut aux États-Unis et au Canada
- 5 746 $US
- Week-end de sortie aux États-Unis et au Canada
- 4 239 $US
- 12 oct. 2014
- Montant brut mondial
- 1 428 494 $US
- Durée
- 1h 26min(86 min)
- Couleur
- Mixage
- Rapport de forme
- 2.35 : 1