Slow (but that's to be expected) but interesting enough start. And high production quality. Discreet horror, not too strong on the jump scare, that's a good sign.
The format seems to be alternating present and flashbacks. We know something happened, but we'll only discover it little by little.
A common failure with this format is that because, as viewers, we don't know what happened in the past as the present event occur, a lot of suspenseful stuff happens. But contrary to us, the characters have already experienced the past events that will only be revealed to us at the end,and they should be behaving according to this experience, not if they discovered it at the same time we see the flashbacks. And very often the movie/show will fail to do so. Very often, when you reach the end, what is revealed from the past renders most the characters' behavior at the beginning totally incoherent. Hoping they avoid that here.
So Steve, became a horror author. A bit cliche, but ok. However he never saw anything and seems quite good at identifying the rational explanation. Cool. Makes the final scene with Nell even better.
Shirley coped by being a mortician. That's a nice one.
And Luke by becoming an addict. Classic. High future suicide potential.
The night club girl is a sister too ? I don't think we saw her as a kid in the intro ?
So obviously something happened in the house. For now it seems like regular haunting story, plus either the mother going crazy and/or the father killing her. And classically something weird with the help that probably know too much.
Review by FLYVIP 2BlockedParent2021-02-09T23:55:03Z
Slow (but that's to be expected) but interesting enough start. And high production quality. Discreet horror, not too strong on the jump scare, that's a good sign.
The format seems to be alternating present and flashbacks. We know something happened, but we'll only discover it little by little.
A common failure with this format is that because, as viewers, we don't know what happened in the past as the present event occur, a lot of suspenseful stuff happens. But contrary to us, the characters have already experienced the past events that will only be revealed to us at the end,and they should be behaving according to this experience, not if they discovered it at the same time we see the flashbacks. And very often the movie/show will fail to do so. Very often, when you reach the end, what is revealed from the past renders most the characters' behavior at the beginning totally incoherent. Hoping they avoid that here.
So Steve, became a horror author. A bit cliche, but ok. However he never saw anything and seems quite good at identifying the rational explanation. Cool. Makes the final scene with Nell even better.
Shirley coped by being a mortician. That's a nice one.
And Luke by becoming an addict. Classic. High future suicide potential.
The night club girl is a sister too ? I don't think we saw her as a kid in the intro ?
So obviously something happened in the house. For now it seems like regular haunting story, plus either the mother going crazy and/or the father killing her. And classically something weird with the help that probably know too much.