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Post by GRWelsh on Aug 10, 2021 6:47:47 GMT -5
I just got around to watching this yesterday and it was good for a low budget ($1.8M) horror movie. The script was excellent, and the acting was good enough to carry it through. It had some clever twists and turns and I liked the ending. Still, I kept thinking how much better it would have been if it had ditched the found footage format and had higher production values. The found footage format is common presumably to help conceal the low budget approach but all too often it becomes limiting and contrived. Poverty-stricken, backwoods Louisiana had a lot of atmospheric potential that they could have made better use of... The setting reminded me of TRUE DETECTIVE Season One.
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Post by GRWelsh on Aug 11, 2021 10:37:44 GMT -5
A theme in this movie is that the characters are not sure if the girl is truly possessed or just has psychological problems. Without giving away spoilers, there is one scene when she is locked in her room and the characters outside the room hear what sound like multiple voices in the room. Then they hear a loud pounding on the door while a song is playing on a flute -- the same one played by the girl earlier in the movie. The contrast of the violent pounding with the innocent sounding song is very creepy. When they open the door, no one is there and it is quiet and dark. They look around, and finally see the girl, alone and crouched on top of a wooden cabinet, and it isn't clear how she could have got up there so fast. It was a great scene because it perfectly captured that feeling of not being sure if this is supernatural, but it sure seems supernatural because it is unlikely a person could pull all of that off.
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Post by Scott on Aug 24, 2021 8:32:10 GMT -5
It's similar to the original Exorcist book. In the movie she's possessed, but in the book it's never conclusive. There's always a possible explanation for everything. It's a great book. Really creepy at points.
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