The Shade

Despite the fact of never having heard about director Tyler Chipman's 2023 horror movie "The Shade", as I stumbled upon it here in 2025, of course I needed no persuasion to watch the movie, given my love of all things horror.

The narrative in the movie is a bit slow paced, and that sort of makes it a bit of a drag and a test of will to sit through the movie. There was very little of anything overly interesting happening as the narrative dragged on and one. So writers Tyler Chipman and David Purdy didn't really impress me with the script and storyline that the conjured up for this movie.

The only familiar faces on the cast list for me were actors Michael Boatman and Brendan Sexton III. Despite the fact that the script was a sluggish affair, I will still say that the acting performances in "The Shade" were fair.

This was not a movie that made use of an abundance of special effects, I can't really claim that the effects were doing much to lift up the movie in general.

While I did manage to sit through the entire movie in its 127 minute runtime, I did almost drift off to sleep once or twice along the way. With a runtime could have benefitted from a round-handed trimming down in post editing.

I would not recommend you to throw away 127 minutes of your life on this movie, it just simply doesn't have the entertainment value to sustain such a long runtime. Nor is it a movie that I will ever suffer through a second time.

My rating of director Tyler Chipman's 2023 movie "The Shade" lands on a generous three out of ten stars.

Film all in all is not bad - the metaphors make it across the board, the characters and acting is well for the most part, the cinematography and thensome is phneomal, however the issue I personally had was the fact that the film dragged it's feet through thick mud. If you're expecting this to he a horror flick to the core, scary - immediately disregard that, this is an all in all very reality stricken tale of many challenging emotions like depression, grief and the repercussions of what our lashing actions can do. It really gets the messages across the board well, but as said, thick mud. I can see many people losing their patience with this one, finding it boring with its very prominent slow burn approach. This is a film to watch, if you're seeking to immerse yourself in this characters trauma and grief journey, as well as get a glimpse of some really well captured raw emotions.

I fully see where they were going, I personally enjoy the message and thensome, however with its extremely slow wrapping up and ending that ( for me ) felt like the capsize of this film, this was quite an endurance to sit through and watch. Mentally prepare and know what this film has to offer before jumping in.

4.5 is slightly underrated. The acting was completely natural. This is the first time I've ever paid attention to how well Chris Galust can act and is it just me or does he look a little like Jack Dawson aka Leonardo DiCaprio? I couldn't help but watching him act and envisioning young Leo with the same mannerisms and features. Anyway with that said this movie can really test your movie watching endurance. While it does have a few good climaxes they are few and far between one another. So after something happens you're kind of just watching a bunch more character building until you get a slight pop of a demon and then your back in the therapist chair or laying with the Misses. The beginning starts of promising but it kind of gets debunked when you realize that isn't what really happens. Good movie good acting super super super slow burn. 2 hours was completely unnecessary. 4.5 is low it could gotten 5.5 or even a 6 easy but I'll go with 5.

You spent two precious hours of my time to explain nothing! Where is the explanation about what I'm looking at and why is this movie so long just to leave people hanging? Is this a generational curse? A curse for the men in the family? Or is the illness a generational curse that's causing all of these issues? Why aren't these idiots taking medication? You seek therapy but don't seek any other preventative measures. This movie is literally about how self destructive people with mental illnesses are but how it also impacts those around them. Yet for some reason I doubt that was the intent. The musical score is horrible and doesn't match the mood or the movie. You didn't just give the creature the middle finger, you gave it to the audience too.

I'm always up for Good new horror movie, This was on Amazon prime, so I thought I would give it a shot. I Didn't watch too much of the trailer because I like to be semi surprised when I watch something.

Well, I am over 45 minutes in and could sum this movie up in a couple of sentences. Yes, That's how little has happened. I'm even going to have trouble coming up with the amount of words to describe and rate this film.

So far, there is no horror in this. I would call it a drama more than anything.

So if you like very slow drama movies, this one might be right up your alley. To horror fans, this is an easy skip.

2/10 PASS.