Thehibikiew Not even bad in a good way

Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

foutainoflife Well, it is undoubtedly a creepy film. There were a couple jump scares but for the most part it is a slow burner. I am more of a slow burn person anyway. I think movies like that can really get into your psyche and stay with you long after the film is over. Torture porn is just cheap and forgettable.What I liked...I liked that this was set in Russia. I think that gave it a cold atmospherical tone and also allowed us viewers to connect with her sense of uncertainty. Different language and lifestyles really takes you out of your element and that can be frightening in itself.I also liked the house. It was beautifully creepy and I also liked that it was being narrated by her daughter.I liked that the brother ended up being seduced into his death by a naked girl!! Guys y'all are so gullible. Everything else was just sorta, meh, to me.What I didn't like ...I didn't care for being haunted by your future ghost. That seemed a bit confusing to me. I didn't like that we didn't learn more about the heroic actions of their mother.It wasn't bad but it's not the best. It's good for a rainy day.

GL84 Arriving in Russia to sort through her ancestral home, a woman finds that the ghostly doppelgangers of her and her brother are guarding a terrifying secret within the house and they must solve it together before it can come to pass and allow them to leave.This here was quite the enjoyable if flawed effort. One of the main positives here is the rather fun and chilling atmosphere of the house since this one takes place almost exclusively at the location which really gives this a really eerie tone for the most part. The set-up with the backstory here makes for a rather steady storyline that gets them to the house and allows them to go exploring around the abandoned, disused place which is where this one really gets to plenty to like with the overall atmosphere. There's the first walk-through of the house when they see that state of the house and the eerie silence as they oversee the different momentos left in a state of dust-covered objects and pictures which lets them into the encounters found later in the house where they finally find the continuous series of ghostly encounters in that kind of environment. The scenes of the two up in their old cribs where the psychedelically-enhanced visuals that accompany the ghosts are incredibly creepy, the scenes of them wandering around the house confronting the ghosts in various rooms throughout the house as they battle their selves in the big battles in the kitchen and the dining room provides this one with some utter creepy encounters. The frantic attacks in the final half where they chase her through the woods away from the home while replaying the events of the separation incident for the brother where he sees what happened to them in order to become separated and how he became a ghost gives this one some more great fun as there's some rather chilling action with the voices getting to her and the frantic action of being around the infants is where it scores as a wild, frantic finish. Alongside the chilling ghosts, sporadic but bloody gore and fine nudity these here give this one quite a lot to like with only a few minor flaws. The main flaw here for this one is the fact that it makes absolutely no sense at all as this one simply piles on plenty of confusion and utter incomprehension about anything that' going on in here, as not only is there nothing here about what the ghostly doppelgangers are or where they came but there's nothing here about the purpose of the father reappearing. All we get are his cruel behavior towards their mother but nothing about why he's after them or even anything about the ghostly versions of themselves which just makes the whole affair so utterly confusing as nothing is ever explained. As well, there's also the issue to contend with in that the ghosts aren't really that dangerous as there's never a true sense they plan to go after them intending to hurt them and their confusing nature also extends to their behavior as they just shamble along without going for those attack and it gives them a somewhat weakened feeling. Still, this one has enough enjoyable elements to work incredibly well.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Full Nudity and intense scenes of child abuse.

rojidodge Have you ever been told not to eat cheese before going to bed because it will give you bad dreams? This film is like one of those bad dreams. You know how these dreams start off subtle then things start getting more bizarre, then it scares you because you can't tell what is real, and you find yourself in a dark place within your mind before you realize that your dreaming then you wake up. This film spends a lot of time in that dark place. Very spooky, and very well directed. Some concepts used in this film I haven't seen in other films, which for me made it feel original. Everyone starring in this film is relatively unheard of, but the acting was very good.If there is anything lacking about this film I could say, it would be that there didn't seem to be any big plot twist to pull you in. What could be considered as plot twists I think are just plot developments. But that's fair enough, because the story is fairly involved, and to add any major twist could make it too complicated.If you're after a horror with lots of mindless gore then watch Feast (1, 2, and 3). But if you want to watch a scary story (including some gore), then check this out, but you may still be thinking about it long after you watch it.

BakuryuuTyranno The Abandoned starts out with some woman whose name I don't remember traveling to her family's old home - her birth family, mind you, because she's adopted.Well technically it started out with a dead woman being found with two living babies but let's not start getting technical here.On arriving, she meets the dead version of herself. Apparently. Additionally her brother, who might not actually be her brother, makes an appearance (she's never heard of any siblings) and sure enough, the apparent dead version of him appears. Unsurprisingly, the house turns out to be haunted.There's some parts with unsettling atmosphere, some focus on the characters trying to figure out what's actually happening. It's pretty decent, although treading water mostly.Then time travel is introduced. Minor spoiler for expected ending: There's some freaky time loop going on, causing the father to shoot the brother who becomes the corpse lying on the floor, meanwhile the sister gets mortally wounded, surviving long enough to prevent the babies from falling victim, after which they eventually repeat the cycle. The twins have tattoos of the roman numeral "II" on their bodies, suggesting the next versions would have had "III".Said ending didn't occur; the surrealness near the ending apparently only serves to confuse!