5 stars is far too generous
A film that takes its potentially great premise and lovely leading lady and flushes them down a generically scored funnel of half-assed jump scares, piss poor dialogue, and about the laziest plotting I've ever witnessed. Just watch Come True (or even the documentary The Nightmare) to see a movie that makes sleep paralysis intriguing and frightening... I mean, it's sleep paralysis, it's both of those things already by default in real life, you have to TRULY screw up your movie to neuter this premise. And that's pretty much all that Mara manages for its entire runtime.
- billyzduke
- Jul 31, 2021