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Sep 08, 2018GiovanniS rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
Managed to give this movie a shot. The first two times I watched when half-asleep and couldn't keep my eyes open for the 20 min mark. Finally saw the movie today. It was a disturbing movie to watch, but not disturbing like the Hostel or Stranger Things. I mean relax, there are blood pills, it's just acting, we all know who Colin Farrel and Nicole Kidman is, and I've seen this duo act in "The Beguiled (remake)" last year, I've seen Colin Farrel again recently in "Roman Israel, esq", and again Nicole Kidman in "The Genius". It's at a point that as actors/actresses in a horror movie, I can't really take the performance that seriously as a real horror movie so the scare factor is diminished. It's mainly really just drama but they crafted in story in such a way that it felt very disturbing without it being a slasher of having gratuitous amount of violence or jump scares. It's also not very realistic (i.e. kidnapping the boy, and the police don't get involved with that, really?). I would compare this to an M. Night Shyamalan type of movie like "Split", where it's a very drama intensive story with children involved making it disturbing and also "Funny Games" (2007). Don't think I'll want to re-watch this again.