I am 110% sure to say and not crazy but this is a good movie and the truth is that I really enjoy what I saw. This is a horror movie but no in the way you think that only shows ghost for no reason, there are scary scene that make you think shit that kid is possessed but is not is a condition, you see that plot twists in this story are relevant leading a path for a unexpected true. I will give you a little bit of context, the story is about Ellison a crime writer who moves with his family into a new house, the house is a special one because a whole family got murdered there like a year before, hanging form a tree in the backyard and thats is an information that Ellison decided to keep for himself, obvious I´m pretty sure that any wife will be happy to move her children to a creepy please with such dark past. One day when Ellison was in the attic he found an old box with some random home movies, he decided to watch the 8 films and realized that there were not those kind of home movies with families having fun, swimming in the pool, doing barbecue or just hanging in the couch relaxing, no, these tapes show families getting brutally killed in the most twisted way possible and when I mean the whole is kids included, every single tape was worse than the previous one and unfortunately this discovering takes Ellison and his family to a dark journey of no return.
- IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1922777/
- Platform: AppleTV+
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Thinking about Ellison decision to live in a house where a horrendous murder occurred and take his family with him is really twisted but that´s the way the director present how desperate is Ellison to create a new book that will earned him the recognition he is looking for, at the moment he found the tapes a normal person would call the police but Ellison mind doesn´t work like that he just decided that he has a great story on his hands even thought his decision of not call the police his destiny connect him with the deputy of the town an it happen because one night when Ellison was watching the tapes he heard a strange noise but he didn´t find anything only a large hole in his attic through which he passed and fell to the lower floor for that reason a report was made the next day so the deputy take the case realizing who was Ellison letting him know that he is a huge fan. Since that moment this two men become partners but while the deputy was trying to solve the crimes Ellison used all his influence to recover information for his book, yeah he really doesn´t care about all those people dead he was obsessed with fame and fortune and will do anything to achieved his dream or that is what he thought. We are witness how this paid work connecting all the murders across different time periods and showing us the the responsable of all those murders was Mr. Boogie an entity that appeared in every tape and that at the end apparently was the responsible of all the murders and the missing children of every family.
I am at the point where I really want the family to leave that place. Everything is getting worse every day, including Ellison children, Trevor is suffering of night terrors that if they don´t explain that is a kid condition you truly believed that he is possessed because the way that kid act at those moments is more than creepy and Ashly is painting pictures in the walls, that are more visions of the missing kids that by the way she can see them even though all that shit is happening at the house Ellison decided to stay because is more important for him recover his successful past but when his wife finally knows the truth she made him decided to all leave the house or she will leave with her kids and if he wants to stay he can do it. Obviously they decided to leave the house being sure that all evil will stay there, also Ellison burn all the tapes because he doesn´t want anything from that house but they will received a surprise. I think well I can understand all the effort that Ellison is doing to be better in his career but damn bro putting all your family in danger instead of keep them safe make Ellison a selfish jackass.
I know I said that the movie is good and talking about the acting and the story is good but theres some thing that are bad here for example the ghost children, shit the CGI on that point is terrible, once the ghost children start showing up you notice that they look like kids dressed up for Halloween rather than genuinely frightening spirits also the whole mythology around Bughuul feels rushed and underdeveloped compared to the careful buildup in the earlier scenes. When Professor Jonas explains over Skype that Bughuul lives in the images themselves and uses them to possess children, it should be this chilling revelation but instead it feels like exposition dumping to explain plot points that don't really make sense. The ghost are not good, the aspect of the Bughuul looks more like a rocker than a demon, hahaha was funny but take the seriousness a little bit for me. Something that I do like was the end was really unexpected for me, after Ellison burn the tapes and live the hunted house the family returned to their previous house and when he goes to the attic, what he found?, yees the tapes and a new one that obvious he watched and the climax arrived, the secret is revealed, is not that the Bughuul only take the children of every family what is that he possessed them making them killed their families, wao for me was mind blowing, I though well the demon was the one the killed everyone but no was the kids who made the nasty job, good twist.
A father obsessed with a past glory, a hunted house, families murdered, children in danger and a demon who possessed the missing kids, well probably is not the perfect formula but it work. At the beginning I truly believed that was a serial killer who made all those horrible killing to those poor families but no was a demon that wasn´t scary and that´s the part where probably the movie falters a little and with the CGI because those ghost children were terrible but more than that I do like the movie, Ethan Hawke as always giving his 100% in every performance and here didn´t disappoint. Also the tapes were the cherry of the cake, there is show all the cruelty of the murder, every scene of those families dying is painful, drowned in a pool, hanged up in a tree also the use of lawnmower to kill, the demon was really creative but more than that is a movie that you can enjoy, is not a 10 but if you decided to avoid the bad things mention here and see it you will be glad for what you are going to see.
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