pmdawn

I'm a horror fan, and it's my favorite genre (minus slashers/torture porn/found footage mostly).

Actually my love is really for psychological thrillers, dramas or horror movies. I've seen my share of effed up, creepy and bizarre films and I generally do not find them all that scary. It's rare when this happens. Life is scary, real people scare me. Ghosts, spirits, not really.

One movie from the time when French cinema was all the rage with Gaspar Noe's Irreversible, then Inside, Ils, Malefique, Sheitan...

Noe is actually one of my favorite directors.

I was planning on watching Martyrs because I somehow missed it back in the day. Not anytime soon now.

Ghostland is one of the VERY few movies that scared me, or disturbed me. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because Pascal Laugier wanted to get a reaction, and boy he got me with this film. And he's a sadist, he wanted to torture the audience, he's said so himself. It worked...

The result is I want to forget about this movie, not because it's bad - it's really good! - but because it REALLY disturbed me.

I do find him irresponsible for what happened to Taylor Hickson but she's beautiful and well, so I'll just pretend I don't know how responsible he was and hope for the best.

Highly recommended as a horror film. You may not find it that scary but it did scare me and for this I gotta give it at least a 8 out of 10...

Very, very small budget.

Plenty of talent and creativity involved.

We enter the world where a comatose girl trying to get out of her difficult "situation".

A *very* small girl (and her potentially great talent for acting after this role) And this fantastic world is not always such a great place. But there's a lot more to this than what I'm telling you.

By the end, it brought a tear to my eye.

I'm kinda still in love with this film. It was something really special. I hope it gets seen by more people. Yes, it's derivative at first look, but also done whofully originally.

I went in blind and I recommend you also do so, with an open mind.

Only then you'll see through the eyes of a child, with psychologically-infused tones, a miraculously well-done child fantasy and horror experience.

Well done to Ryan Stevens Harris and his crew. Amazing creativity and talent in creating something really special with so little money.

I saw "Oculus" first, and loved it. "Ouija: Origin of Evil", a proper good horror movie and a great surprise because it's supposed to be a sequel to a mediocre movie, is amazingly good. "Before I Wake" with its more psychedelic-like fantasy tones than real horror, has remained really special to me since I first saw it... I already knew this Flanagan guy was consistently good. Hush and Gerald's Game, while nothing special, still good movies.

I haven't seen much of his recent work since then, and I haven't watched his Netflix miniseries stuff either. So I decided to finally check out his first horror film, which happens to be one of his best.

It was partially funded by Kicktarter, made with a very limited budget, but everything works beautifully. By the end, I was amazed and a bit haunted, actually.

The actors were very convincing and that surprised me. Great talent and creativity with near-perfect execution.

Very impressive from a film making appreciation point of view, as well.

Every Flanagan fan should watch this, in my opinion. Great surprise and an excellent "debut in horror".