Sororal

I was under the impression that I was getting myself into a horror movie when I sat down to watch "Dark Sister". Granted, I hadn't heard about the movie prior to stumbling upon it, so I had no clue as to what this was going to be.

Turns out that it was a horror movie alright. A horror to get through it without falling asleep. I managed to endure about 30 minutes or so of this ordeal. Then I had enough self-inflicted torture and decided to call it quits. And I have zero intentions of returning to finish the rest of the movie.

From what I managed to catch of the movie, it was about a woman artist troubled by vivid dreams of murder, and she paints down what she dreams and finds out that she is in fact witnessing real murders in her dreams.

The movie was so unfathomably slow paced that it was hard to find any interest in the storyline, much less keep any interested anchored. And the fact that the movie had a very small cast and the cast had very little dialogue wasn't really helping to improve on the movie.

The acting in the movie was, at least from the 30 minutes I managed to suffer through, was actually adequate, taking into consideration that they had virtually nothing to work with.

"Dark Sister" is not worth the time or effort, and I can't put a finger on a single thing that would make me recommend that you watch this movie.

I watched Sororal as part of the Horrorant "Fright nights" festival. I was pretty excited with the whole festival as a horror fan.

The lights went off and on the black screen we saw the images of the female lead's paintings. It was a start that gained and lost many people in the audience. And then the story begins.

We have a serial killer, murders, a traumatized female lead and a weird connection between her past and the killer. Acting was OK for most of the cast (the bride-to-be was not that good in my opinion). I don't even remember the soundtrack (neither amazing, nor annoying). Colours were deep and reminded me those of a "giallo" film (like many other elements in this film).

The story started really good. The plot was interesting with some creepy moments, the characters were introduced nicely. We saw blood but no actual gore, something that kept the viewers watching and didn't make them look away from the screen. The basic idea is quite original and fresh. What changed everything (even the movie's genre in a way), were the last few minutes the movie. It wasn't the ending, but the way it was delivered that I didn't expect. Maybe they wanted to use more effects, maybe they wanted to give a lighter final feeling. If so, they succeeded, maybe not in the way they intended to.

My last impression is that the film is a little better than simply OK. It's neither unpleasant nor jaw-dropping. It also has something different (at least I don't remember having seen anything similar) and interesting. Overall, it was a nice effort with a weird turn somewhere near the end.

This movie was actually made in 2014, not 2018. Australian. Some describe it as Gaillo-esque, but it's really artsy fartsy in the way it's directed. Barely any dialog which is likely a good ting since these are unknown actors and we know how that goes.

Seems to me this would be good fodder for a midnight showing