Pretty classic haunted house horror flick, slow paced, with the small addition of the main inhabitant being an old lady with beginning of dementia. This adds a little more interrogation in the beginning, is she talking to herself ? To someone/something that is here ? To the house ?
Characters are three generations women of the family, the grandmother, mother and daughter. There are some hints of weird relationships between them and the beginning of some plot, but it is never really developed or shown (the daughter always calling her mother by her name for instance).
It's interesting and worth the watch, however it's missing some connecting lines between the different elements. It starts by the disappearance of the grandmother, but it's not clear how it fits with the haunted house part. There is an actual haunted house portion with weird things happening but it's almost unrelated to the rest, but that part is very good, the looping corridor, the extended part of the house inside the walls, the space getting tighter and tighter, it's a simple idea, but very oppressive and tense. There is some suggestion that it comes from parts of an older house, but that's just an allusion and never developed. In the same way the title is totally irrelevant.
The ending is probably best taken as a metaphor than literally, but then that does not fit with the weird house stuff. Otherwise, is the grandmother transforming into an actual monster, and what the fuck is wrong with her daughter to actually start peeling away all the skin and staying there ??
It feels a little unfinished, and not sure of the intended angle of the story.
Review by FLYVIP 2BlockedParent2020-09-10T01:20:57Z— updated 2020-09-14T22:00:26Z
Pretty classic haunted house horror flick, slow paced, with the small addition of the main inhabitant being an old lady with beginning of dementia. This adds a little more interrogation in the beginning, is she talking to herself ? To someone/something that is here ? To the house ?
Characters are three generations women of the family, the grandmother, mother and daughter. There are some hints of weird relationships between them and the beginning of some plot, but it is never really developed or shown (the daughter always calling her mother by her name for instance).
It's interesting and worth the watch, however it's missing some connecting lines between the different elements. It starts by the disappearance of the grandmother, but it's not clear how it fits with the haunted house part. There is an actual haunted house portion with weird things happening but it's almost unrelated to the rest, but that part is very good, the looping corridor, the extended part of the house inside the walls, the space getting tighter and tighter, it's a simple idea, but very oppressive and tense. There is some suggestion that it comes from parts of an older house, but that's just an allusion and never developed. In the same way the title is totally irrelevant.
The ending is probably best taken as a metaphor than literally, but then that does not fit with the weird house stuff. Otherwise, is the grandmother transforming into an actual monster, and what the fuck is wrong with her daughter to actually start peeling away all the skin and staying there ??
It feels a little unfinished, and not sure of the intended angle of the story.