I am not sure if it is wise to watch two horror movies in movie halls in a span of a month. A bit of an overkill, isn't it? And it wasn't as if I didn't have a choice. After all, the new Star Trek movie is out. I have been a die-hard fan of the franchise ever since I laid my eyes on the original Captain Kirk, his USS Enterprise, its crew and their mission to seek out new lives and new civilizations to boldly go where no 'man' has gone before. Oh, and the new 'Bones' is so much easier on the eyes than the old one that the Sick Bay must be the best place on the Enterprise. :-) Sigh!
Okay, back to the horror flick. There were mixed reviews on imdb for both movies - people loved and hated them in equal measures....almost. So we decided that we might as well be scared out of our wits, again! Given the fact that this movie is from the makers of the 'The Conjuring', it seemed like a safe bet.
The movie is about a family - a mother-son pair actually, since the daughter has moved out as she is working in the city and the dad is no more. They are haunted by a ghostly presence that can only be seen when the lights are turned out. The dad, or the stepdad as far as the daughter is concerned, was killed by the same entity. As the movie progresses we learn that the daughter suffered a traumatic childhood as her biological father disappeared one day and the mother took to talking to someone called Diana who no one else can see. She left as soon as she could fend for herself but it is evident that the spirit is now after her kid step-brother. She is forced to come back to her childhood home just to make sure that he is not harmed. And then things just spiral out of control.
As far as my verdict goes, let me put it this way - there were quite a few moments of fright, especially when the lights were turned out on screen. But the story appeared very thin and in the end left me with one big question - if Diana was a spirit, how was her scene burnt when light fell on it? Ghosts don't have bodies. Was it a ghost or a person?
I would have been better off betting on captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise :-(
Okay, back to the horror flick. There were mixed reviews on imdb for both movies - people loved and hated them in equal measures....almost. So we decided that we might as well be scared out of our wits, again! Given the fact that this movie is from the makers of the 'The Conjuring', it seemed like a safe bet.
The movie is about a family - a mother-son pair actually, since the daughter has moved out as she is working in the city and the dad is no more. They are haunted by a ghostly presence that can only be seen when the lights are turned out. The dad, or the stepdad as far as the daughter is concerned, was killed by the same entity. As the movie progresses we learn that the daughter suffered a traumatic childhood as her biological father disappeared one day and the mother took to talking to someone called Diana who no one else can see. She left as soon as she could fend for herself but it is evident that the spirit is now after her kid step-brother. She is forced to come back to her childhood home just to make sure that he is not harmed. And then things just spiral out of control.
As far as my verdict goes, let me put it this way - there were quite a few moments of fright, especially when the lights were turned out on screen. But the story appeared very thin and in the end left me with one big question - if Diana was a spirit, how was her scene burnt when light fell on it? Ghosts don't have bodies. Was it a ghost or a person?
I would have been better off betting on captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise :-(
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