They Live Inside Us

The film started well with two kids bicycling around n as they approach an abandoned house, hope starts to rise when they show a ghost near the window.... But as soon as a writer along with his physically challenged kid moves into the same house on a Halloween nite, the film became very predictable. We see the typical stuff, some same scenes over n over again, just two characters in a single location n nothing scary happens. Generous with a 4 for the effort cos this cud have been a good scary movie if they wud have added some new thing rather than the predictable stuff. U jus cant show purgatory stuff for 100 mins n expect fellas to get scared.

Tries to be clever but is predictable & boring. Doesn't sound like a particularly terrible review but when I say it is boring, I mean it was SO boring that I was ill, confined to bed & this film was the most torturous part of my day.

I stumbled upon the 2020 horror movie "They Live Inside Us" here in 2022 by random chance. And I will say that the movie's cover definitely was interesting, and it was sufficient to make me pick up the movie and give it a view.

As I had never heard about writer and director Michael Ballif's movie, "They Live Inside Us", I didn't know what I was in for here, nor what to expect. So I sat down to watch the movie with an open mind and giving writer and director Michael Ballif every opportunity to impress and entertain me.

However, writer and director Michael Ballif failed to do just that. Sure, I managed to sit through the entire movie in all its 104 minutes, but I was not overly entertained, much less impressed with the movie. The narrative felt clumsy and sort of not properly thought through, and that made for a somewhat cluttered viewing experience.

And the rigid, emotionless and wooden acting performances in "They Live Inside Us" didn't exactly help to win me over either. I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble in the movie, but they surely didn't stand out with putting on exceptional good acting performances.

For a horror movie then "They Live Inside Us" was a walk in the park. Nothing scary here throughout the course of the somewhat disjointed narrative. And for a life-long horror aficionado like myself, this movie was a swing and a miss in terms of being scary or noteworthy in the horror genre.

While I managed to sit through the entire ordeal, then I can honestly say that I am never returning to watch "They Live Inside Us" a second time. Nor is it a movie that I would recommend you waste your time, money or effort on.

My rating of "They Live Inside Us" lands on a three out of ten stars.

And I'm talking ten minutes looking at a bloody doorknob waiting for himself to open the damn door we know he's been meant to go through since the year dot. The entire script must have been made of up HOLDs. I think they thought it was arty? But any tension they managed to build up (which was very little) was lost in the hour-long breaks taken to look down a hallway or at a flippin wall. How many 'legs in the orange light under the doorway' and slack-jawed mouth-breathing darting-bug-eyed expressions can a viewer be subjected to? This question needs to be answered and communicated to the writer/director/editor/cameraman. Mind-numbingly boring and predictable.

Nearly every review is 10......? Think I'll give this one a miss, probably overdid this one a bit guys. Hope I didn't miss the BEST MOVIE EVER......!