Mara 2018

I still wonder why there are so few horror flicks about sleep paralysis...

a good movie , very good acting, good suspens, nothing very original but 1Hour 40 of cinema well done I liked this one very correct

The Ring meets A Nightmare of Elm Street. A take on sleep paralysis, sleep deprevation and people going nuts on what's real and what's not. It's not as cool as it sounds though, it's nothing we haven't seen before and brings nothing new. The only sleep paralysis scene I enjoyed was the one at the beginning of the third act, the others were mediocre. Cool look for the sleep demon Mara she was creepy as hell towards the end. Acting was fine, weak scares, story was lacking, it got sooo cliché real quick but the worst crime was the pacing.

Wasn’t brilliant, wasn’t awful. It’s a similar plot that’s been done so many times. However, the suspense etc was not to bad and I think this would be scary to lots of people.

Pretty poor to be fair. Wish I'd slept through it.

THIS MOVIE IS AWESOME AND SO
ACCURATE AND BASED ON A REAL ISSUE.
I HAVE SUFFERED WITH THIS SAME
PARALYSING CONDITION FROM BEING A CHILD AND THIS MOVIE DESCRIBES THE EXACT SAME DETAILS AS I HAVE EXPERIENCED 45 YEARS AGO.
SO I'M A MASSIVE LOVER OF THIS EXCELLENT MOVIE FOR ME IT'S A 10/10 I'VE STUDIE AND LOOKED INTO THIS AND YOU WOULD BE SURPRISED HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE AND DO SUFFER THIS AROUND THE WORLD, IT'S A SERIOUSLY COMMON ISSUE. AND BEEN AROUND AS LONG AS WELL
HUMANS HAVE REQUIRED SLEEP. SO MANY PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD INCLUDING MYSELF EXPERIENCE SHADOW MEN/CREATURES WITH THIS CONDITION. THANK GOD I DON'T SUFFER NOW FROM IT AS AN ADULT AS I HAVE LEARNT CERTAIN TECHNIQUES OVER MANY YEARS, PLUS I HARDLY EVER SLEEP. REAL BAD INSOMNIA, hm I wonder why.
BUT BELIEVE ME I'M NOT ALONE AND MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF PEOPLE SINCE THE DAWN OF HUMANITY CAN'T BE WRONG.
BEWARE THE
SHADOW MEN
Fantastic to see a movie done on it. And done so well.

Mara is a poorly made and uninspired rote horror film. The story follows a forensic psychologist named Kate Fuller who comes to believe that a sleep demon named Mara is responsible for a series of bizarre murders and begins to work with a former vet to find a way to stop her. Olga Kurylenko is horribly miscast and isn’t the least bit believable as a forensic psychologist. And the director pulls out every hackney cliché and trope in the book, making the film look desperate. Completely ineffective, Mara isn’t at all frightening and doesn’t deliver any scares (even the jump scares are lame).

The mythology behind the film was pure hokum, but despite the ridiculous story, this actually managed to keep me awake for the entire running time. Not bad for a film about people experiencing evil while in a deep sleep state!