By the blurb, this one sounded interesting and I'll definitely have to check out the original book. This adaptation however is quite lackluster, coming off as rather amateurish which is odd as the director HAS made better-reviewed films and should know what he's doing. Perhaps the production team he was working with just didn't deliver, or maybe he's getting too old?
Nevertheless, as others have said, the overall quality of the movie screams "barely adequate TV mystery-drama" for the most part: Flat and bright lighting in places, overtly sharp image (a common issue with modern stuff, almost everything looking like a TV production instead of an actual movie), reasonably capable actors who could've used a bit more direction, a script that wasn't quite finished, and overall leaving me with a constant feel that things were just somehow lacking. It never really grabbed me the way that From Beyond (1986) or The Void (2016) did. I found the plot reasonable easy to follow and liked that it didn't spell things out too much, but I have seen and read quite a lot of similar stories so YMMV.
What I personally found most annoying besides the nagging feeling of the movie just lacking a bit more tune and polish was the soundtrack: There were a couple of functionally creepy tunes, but as others have once again said, mostly it just detracted from the movie. Slash might now his rock'n'roll, but a horror movie composer he is NOT.
Check it out on streaming, maybe even rent for cheap... Me? I spent 15 euros on the DVD that I feel should've been 5.
Nevertheless, as others have said, the overall quality of the movie screams "barely adequate TV mystery-drama" for the most part: Flat and bright lighting in places, overtly sharp image (a common issue with modern stuff, almost everything looking like a TV production instead of an actual movie), reasonably capable actors who could've used a bit more direction, a script that wasn't quite finished, and overall leaving me with a constant feel that things were just somehow lacking. It never really grabbed me the way that From Beyond (1986) or The Void (2016) did. I found the plot reasonable easy to follow and liked that it didn't spell things out too much, but I have seen and read quite a lot of similar stories so YMMV.
What I personally found most annoying besides the nagging feeling of the movie just lacking a bit more tune and polish was the soundtrack: There were a couple of functionally creepy tunes, but as others have once again said, mostly it just detracted from the movie. Slash might now his rock'n'roll, but a horror movie composer he is NOT.
Check it out on streaming, maybe even rent for cheap... Me? I spent 15 euros on the DVD that I feel should've been 5.