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Started off really well and I do like movies set in eastern europe, it gives them a dark and mysterious quality ever since Hostel came to the forefront but unfortunately although the film has some good atmosphere it lacks any scares and so many questions unanswered...like... who were the men outside? Why were they guarding the house? And who wanted to buy it? And the ending...what the heck was that all about? Even more laughable is the need to insert an extra scene mid or end credits but in this case for no apparent reason whatsoever.

I am afraid the acting was also pretty lame especially the boyfriend although most of the Russian actors beat the main ones into a cocked hat.

If you are going to write a horror movie then at least make it intelligible with a few frights or small scares.

Could have been good but like most low budget horror these days it just has no idea what it wants to be or how to accomplish it!

I feel like I have too many questions left unanswered. Everything just seemed fishy. The men, the reactions, everything. There was a lot of potential here but a mix of local theater acting, evasiveness in the big mystery and absolutely everything to do with her husband left me wondering why I kept watching. Oh, right, it was all about the excellent location. So location scout gets top awards!

In what could have been an interesting and atmospheric horror movie, fell apart due to the truly bad acting. I mean it's really, really bad. Not even "funny" bad just annoyingly bad.

The storyline is decent (but nothing new), camerawork is ok (not great), the setting is interesting and there is some moderate suspense. Some cheap surprises you can see a mile away and, again, nothing fresh.

Overall a pretty bad movie, mostly due to the acting. Strong actors could have saved this movie from itself.

I have to say its not scary at all but it is refreshing to see a movie with a story for a while but still keeps his loose ends sadly but i liked it.

Its a slowpacing horrorthriller about the ghosts of the past in a brick and concrete building in kiev ukraina.its a house just inherrited by a young american/ukranian women. Not knowing about the house at all, she leaves the safe states of america to explore the fields of her family past.

Its a slowburning story, loads of ''broken english'', its plotted like a psychological horror thriller, and the technical production is of high level, especially the filmography, and experimental film angling. But it suffers from the ''dark filming nsyndrome'', where what lurks in the dark just stays in the dark. A headlight wouldve given the viewer a far better opportunity to explore the premises with the woman instead of a candlelight worthy cellphone light, that the woman use in her exploration.

Acting is at average, and no more than direction and script allows, not much improvisation or spontanious acting, rather stern and with the complete absence of romantics nor comedy. Jumpscares doesnt appear at all, just that tense sound throughout the whole story. I will award a 6 for a good technically made film, nice choice of location,and nice production management. The already halfzheimered grumpy old man wont remember this film too long, so run for it while its still out there.

Probably one of the most frustrating films I've ever watched. It literally has no coherence or plot. A lot of it makes no sense and no explanation for so many events. It leaves too many unanswered questions to be considered likeable. So I just wouldn't bother wasting your time!

This movie took forever to do anything. You are ment to empathize with the main character, but you don't, because she is kinda a snot. I really did not like anything about this move. Wait ... nope nevermind.

...the humans? Awful. Except for Sasha. Maybe it wasn't their fault, as the script was nonsensical. Or maybe it was just translated poorly? I don't know.

Other than Sasha, the characters were unlikable, wooden, almost robot like.

The secondary characters were bizarre, rude, or lazy.

The house, though, was gorgeous. Whoever filmed it did a nice job.

It wasn't terrible, but it wasn't very good either.

Right from the start this film seems to go out of its way to be antagonistic in as many different directions at once; starting with yelling and screaming, then with a quintessential upper class "Ugly American" couple, Sasha and Peter, making asses of themselves to their driver in Kyiv and antagonizing him for not speaking English.

They then proceed into an apartment building inherited from Sasha's grandmother. No idea why they're basically moving into the place that has been supposedly uninhabited for years, possibly decades. Peter then brings in their lawyer Roman, a guy who absolutely looks, sounds, and dresses like a human trafficker, presenting Sasha with a bunch of paperwork all in Russian that she can't read and is being pushed into signing so she can acquire the building.

Sensibly, she refuses to sign for now, asking for a translated copy of the papers. For some reason this becomes a major hassle that requires Peter to leave for days at a time, leaving Sasha to roam the apartment building hearing shouting and thumping and screaming each night. All the while there are a bunch of nondescript men dressed like Russian mobsters standing outside the house all hours of the day every day doing nothing.

Virtually nothing happens for huge portions of the film save for the constant noises and musical stings that lead up to nothing. There's no jump scares, not even any slow burning or creepy moments. Sasha is just wandering around the apartment, hearing noises, and that's it.

At one point she finds a book that supposedly belonged to her grandmother, and she starts piecing together a story of what actually happened with her grandparents and their servant girl before they moved to America. Along the way, everyone she is encountering is almost cartoonishly menacing, devious, or out-right threatening her and she seems completely unfazed by any of it.

At one point the greasy leather-jacket wearing lawyer Roman basically threatens her to sign it, saying something like "you're going to find out sooner or later" what's going on in the place, and when she latches onto that he's like "relax, it's nothing". Multiple characters basically say this or something similar to it to her at various times, and she is completely blissfully unfazed by any of it.

About the only rational and reasonable thing she does is refuse to sign when Roman and Peter act cartoonishly devious and suspicious around her, although there is no reason for her not to sign it. There's no reason for her to even be there in Ukraine, completely alone most of the time, not able to speak Ukrainian or Russian, and wandering around with menacing looking Ukrainians glaring at her in multiple locations while she just wanders around aimlessly.

So much of the film is just this that by the time anything actually starts to progress with the main plot, I had gotten so bored I tuned out what was happening. The ending was long overdue despite making absolutely no sense.

I wish there were more details as to whether they killed her husband or just beat him. Ending many lose ends; did she go back into the house or her ghost ? Did husband reappear ? Did she fix the house and rent ?

I only gave it two stars because the mansion setting was so atmospheric.

Everything else was execrable. The dialogue was appalling and there were so many non- sequiturs I stopped paying attention.

The money spent making this film was utterly wasted.

Absolutely awful, if I could give a negative star rating I would. Definitely don't recommend. Very boring, dull and uneventful. It seemed to take a very long time to get going with any kind of interesting story and just as it started to seem a little bit interesting the film was about 15 minutes away from finishing.

Rated 8 on my scale. Theres many with the same storyline, but this was better than most I've seen.

Didn't get all the answers, but should you though?

This movie is dated 2021 and settled in Kiev, capital of Ukraine. We all know that early next year Russia attacked to Ukraine. Now there's been more than two years of suffering with war between Russia and Ukraine.

Now we are having another crisis. Israel is bomming Palestinians more than ever. In few months there's been more deaths of children and civilians than the whole time in Ukraine. Israel is bomming hospitals which is against all international agreements.

Natalia Ryumina is Sasha the heiress of a pricey Kiev, Ukrainian home amongst numerous other assets in Chad Barager & Kevin Speckmaier's 2020 Psychological thriller, The Inheritance. This on-location film takes the audience through emotions one might feel after a family member has died whilst travelling to a country you're mostly unfamiliar with. Sasha's husband Peter makes the trip though instead of providing Sasha much needed support he appears to either be overcome with greed or possessed due to his personal debts. If you're grandparents are still around, you don't leave your Zip Code or just need Bruce Willis to fall out of a helicopter onto a Semi Truck this film isn't for you. To fully appreciate The Inheritance one would be familiar with Ukraine and the spiritual warfare prevalent in the country and greater Central Europe. Unstated though implied are doctored documents to gain necessary immigration passports and visas causing the viewer to consider their own international travel. The movie includes authentic Ukrainian actors/actresses who don't speak English when you visit their establishment such as when the main character wanted property history. Insisting the translated documents be in Russian as opposed to Ukrainian and referring to the national drink as Vodka opposed to Horilka diminished some of the authenticity.

Not a horror movie but a sow and boring movie without any script..stay away or watch a documentary.

Only thing good about this movie is a small twist in the end otherwise ridiculous acting (Peter) , no explanations to sub plots, no scary scenes.