Wow, pretty good horror flick. I don’t think that this reaches Saw or The Conjuring levels of James Wan goodness, but it certainly comes close. Leigh Whannell’s writing is a bit too run of the mill in my opinion, but he definitely makes this an entertaining film that never seems to stop being crazy. The beginning is a little slow, but once the haunted elements begin to show up things become quite interesting. I just love the lore that Whannell comes up with, the astral projection shit, the monsters, that Darth Maul looking guy, the RED DOOR, it’s magnificent. Wan’s direction is what truly elevates this film though, he’s a master. I wasn’t too impressed by the look of the film at first (it was very dull and monotonous and ugly looking to be honest), but once we entered into the nightmarish astral projection hellscape wonderland in which the demons reside, the movie looked gorgeous. There were beautiful hues of red, candles as far as the eye could see, production design that made my eyes water, and a scary ass lair for our Darth Maul looking freak. Wan knows how to position the camera in ways that make a scene look scary and atmospheric too, he just knows what he’s doing oh yessiree. Now my favorite scene in the entire movie is by far the one in which Lin Shaye and those two random guys and Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne are in the kid with the coma’s room and everything goes batshit crazy, I mean the lights are flashing on and off, monsters are appearing out of thin air and hurting people, the kid is throwing said people across the room like it’s nothing, it’s fucking nuts man. If that didn’t make Patrick Wilson believe his child was haunted, I don’t know what would’ve. But obviously the astral projection finale is top tier and the twist ending is fabulous and caught me off guard. I thought things were gonna be sunshine and rainbows, but I’m SO glad they decided to make the ending sorrowful and painstaking. Anyway, this is a silly movie that is scary and fun. All the actors are great, the concept of a kid being haunted instead of a house is cool (especially since the kid turns any house he lives in into a haunted one), and the filmmaking is top tier. I would say that the message and meaning of this film is uh probably something about generational trauma blah blah blah, perhaps it’s about what happens when you keep emotions locked away instead of being open about them, I mean Patrick Wilson literally gets called out for running away from stressful situations. But yeah, this is good and I understand why it has such a strong appeal. I don’t know what the other movies in this franchise are gonna be like though, hopefully they’re good.
Wow, pretty good horror flick. I don’t think that this reaches Saw or The Conjuring levels of James Wan goodness, but it certainly comes close. Leigh Whannell’s writing is a bit too run of the mill in my opinion, but he definitely makes this an entertaining film that never seems to stop being crazy. The beginning is a little slow, but once the haunted elements begin to show up things become quite interesting. I just love the lore that Whannell comes up with, the astral projection shit, the monsters, that Darth Maul looking guy, the RED DOOR, it’s magnificent. Wan’s direction is what truly elevates this film though, he’s a master. I wasn’t too impressed by the look of the film at first (it was very dull and monotonous and ugly looking to be honest), but once we entered into the nightmarish astral projection hellscape wonderland in which the demons reside, the movie looked gorgeous. There were beautiful hues of red, candles as far as the eye could see, production design that made my eyes water, and a scary ass lair for our Darth Maul looking freak. Wan knows how to position the camera in ways that make a scene look scary and atmospheric too, he just knows what he’s doing oh yessiree. Now my favorite scene in the entire movie is by far the one in which Lin Shaye and those two random guys and Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne are in the kid with the coma’s room and everything goes batshit crazy, I mean the lights are flashing on and off, monsters are appearing out of thin air and hurting people, the kid is throwing said people across the room like it’s nothing, it’s fucking nuts man. If that didn’t make Patrick Wilson believe his child was haunted, I don’t know what would’ve. But obviously the astral projection finale is top tier and the twist ending is fabulous and caught me off guard. I thought things were gonna be sunshine and rainbows, but I’m SO glad they decided to make the ending sorrowful and painstaking. Anyway, this is a silly movie that is scary and fun. All the actors are great, the concept of a kid being haunted instead of a house is cool (especially since the kid turns any house he lives in into a haunted one), and the filmmaking is top tier. I would say that the message and meaning of this film is uh probably something about generational trauma blah blah blah, perhaps it’s about what happens when you keep emotions locked away instead of being open about them, I mean Patrick Wilson literally gets called out for running away from stressful situations. But yeah, this is good and I understand why it has such a strong appeal. I don’t know what the other movies in this franchise are gonna be like though, hopefully they’re good.
