Ayla

It's not scary, not well acted, and it's very, very boring! Please don't waste time watching this!

There are very few, if any, redeeming qualities in this movie. I think they had a good idea for a movie (something similar to a "Sometimes They Come Back"), but it never came together. The movie would go from one scene to the other, without any real transitioning. Therefore, it can leave one a bit confused. You may find yourself asking yourself, "How did we get here?" Even the ending some abruptly.

It appears to be a low budget film, so I get the notion "you get what you pay for," but the acting in this is seriously bad. I am trying to figure how they got Dee Wallace to be in this.

I saw this rated as a horror movie, but I don't see any element of a horror movie. I do not think a movie has to be gory to be a horror movie, but it has nothing: no gore, no spiritual warfare, no conjuring, no demons or witchcraft, nothing. I do not know what I was watching.

Along with the credits at the end, they should also issue an apology to anyone who watched it.

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.

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.

The premise seemed to grab the attention of many. While knowing it was a lower budget film but thinking it could be decent given the premise and concept, in the end "Ayla" doesn't offer much and is disappointing.

The film sounded relatively different but what we watched was a slow paced, confusing, and quite dull drama. Labeled as a horror thriller, there aren't any thrills or real scares. The horror aspect is from the "bringing back from the dead" and supernatural type elements.

The lead actor wasn't very convincing. Tristan Risk as Ayla was the standout yet she wasn't given much to do. The mother was quite annoying.

As an independent film, the writer/director could have went far more over the top and all out crazy. It was relatively tame. Expected more crazy, more bizarre and more off the wall.

Also the ending was not clear and was severely underdeveloped and disappointing.