The only one good thing about this movie is that it is not long, so you will not have to suffer long to finish watching it. Yeah, probably I could look at this film as a story of developing and overcoming a phobia, however, it obviously concentrates on cheap 'horror tricks' without even managing to use them in a correct way. It is not scary in a psychological way like the Mother! which fearful atmosphere is created by an enormous amount of stress the viewer experiences nor the tricks are working well like all those unexpected pop ups that give you a goosebumps in some Alien or The Conjuring, I don't know. This movie just wanders around between 'gross' scenes and perhaps it even tries to be 'deeper', but it's not even close to achieving this aim. Not to mention a plethora of logical holes, let me name you a few:
1. Anybody can visit anybody in a psychological ward? I mean, you just come in, say who you want to visit and nobody asks you about your identity, your reason for visiting and don't check if you have any potentially dangerous stuff with you. Of course not. What a shame.
2. The scene where all the girls come together to have some kind of spiritual seance is absurd, all the girls look as if the make-up artist and hair stylist were hiding just around the corner. Yeah, perhaps it is beautiful, but as this movie was not trying to be aesthetically distinctive, it's extremely unlogical.
3. Why did the light-haired 'witch' leave a washmachine full of clothing open? If you are going to do a laundry, then do it, it's ridiculous.
4. Taking a bag full of 'memories' from a mentally unstable man and leaving without even thanking him or saying goodbye. What a wise decision.
And I could go on and on about the 'I had known that you are depressed for a year but I act as if it all has turned up only now' or 'I leave the car with evidences and go home on foot and nobody investigates a mysterious dissappearence of 4 of my friends'.
Yeah, don't be me and do not expect neither entertainment from this cheap horror thriller nor a deeper meaning. It's blank and messed up. Even Halloween is better althought I didn't like it.
Review of The Drownsman
