Review of FirstBorn

FirstBorn (2016)
7/10
Cool scary movie!
10 April 2017
Warning: Spoilers
This is a movie about a nice British couple who want a family and have their first born daughter. The only problem is that the daughter is followed by a spirit that is a sort of an evil parasite. There is basically no way to get rid of it - like a disease a child might - so they try to get the girl to be trained by an elder on how to handle her terrible curse.

The acting is good - the writing is good - the cinematography and the creature features are all well done. The performance of the little girl is very good! I really felt that the little girl was in danger and I really felt that this family was in a lot of trouble. I honestly jumped when the creature is first seen - and while the movie isn't too scary it is suspenseful.

It has a lot of elements of "entity" movies that I have seen in the past - and I like that genre so I did like this film. We do get scared if our child is born that they may be sick with something or something may happen to them - and this movie deals with that horror in a way that is pretty cool. Also - there is a pretty dark reversal in the end that was nice.

I recommend this movie.
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