Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Starts wonderfully and then nose dives about a third of the way from the end. The narrative grinds to a halt and predictable horror beats play themselves out over and over and over and over (seriously, one chase sequence just stubbornly refuses to end). The film posits a series of narrative cul de sacs, unable to commit to what it actually wants to do; it's a ghost story, no a mystery, no a psychological thriller, no a horror... And Edgar…
Nice, but fluffy. About as informative as reading his Wikipedia page.
Beautiful visuals, but sub-par (and somewhat sexist) storytelling. The director seems utterly uninterested in his heroine, instead focusing on the fairly tedious man-pain of the beast.