Director's delivery of movie's plot: raining night, cozy house, two young strangers, suspicious coincidence with booking - was just perfect. For the reason that you always anticipate that there is something wrong, and this intrigue (lying on the background of homely half-romantic atmosphere) is a terrific director's move.
Creepy and thrilling moments work absolutely great on that ground. I mean here the night-time, terrifying neighborhood (revealed in the morning) and of course the basement.
However, the first wrong step was too sudden death of Bill's Skarsgard character. It killed all the suspense and conspiracy around him (plus his character was indeed appealing). It was definitely a wrong decision, knowing that it happend at the middle of the movie.
Appearing of Justin Long's character and his moving to the house, obviously, couldn't be compared to the intrigue which was around Campbell and Skarsgard's characters at the beginning.
After Long discovers Campbell, and Mother's prehistory is presented, you may say goodbye to all the intrigue and say hello to a whole lot of questions.
What had happened to the neighborhood?
How is it possible that the only house with this disgusting creature is also the only house which stayed not abandoned?
And how, for heaven's sake, is this same evil house became the one owned by the agency offering its rent?
And it gets cleaned up regularly without noticing the Mother or any traces of her filth left in the house? (Homeless man made it clear that the creature leaves the basement, hence the marks of her presence should have been definitely there)
How could all of the tunnels be made by only one man? And for what reason? (If the secret room in the basement was more than enough)
I don't even want to mention the explaination of Mother's nature and origins (homeless person described her as a product of multiple incest acts and births, though if she was born in 80s, and her mother and grandmother "aka her sisters" should have been at least 13 to bear a child, and obviously the maniac wasn't doing his evil deeds since childhood; - there just mathematically can't be such a whole lot of incest generations as the movie tries to put it.
Also it was extremely hard to believe that director made this booking coincidence indeed just a coincidence.
To sum up, everything is merely perfect untill the death of Skarsgard character. Second part of the movie and especially the ending were simply unsatisfying comparing to the the first part.
It was very disappointing to see how abruptly the movie had lost this great intriguing thread surrounded by this peculiar cozy-trilling ambience, and had gone into the typical case of modern horror film.
Really disappointing...
Creepy and thrilling moments work absolutely great on that ground. I mean here the night-time, terrifying neighborhood (revealed in the morning) and of course the basement.
However, the first wrong step was too sudden death of Bill's Skarsgard character. It killed all the suspense and conspiracy around him (plus his character was indeed appealing). It was definitely a wrong decision, knowing that it happend at the middle of the movie.
Appearing of Justin Long's character and his moving to the house, obviously, couldn't be compared to the intrigue which was around Campbell and Skarsgard's characters at the beginning.
After Long discovers Campbell, and Mother's prehistory is presented, you may say goodbye to all the intrigue and say hello to a whole lot of questions.
What had happened to the neighborhood?
How is it possible that the only house with this disgusting creature is also the only house which stayed not abandoned?
And how, for heaven's sake, is this same evil house became the one owned by the agency offering its rent?
And it gets cleaned up regularly without noticing the Mother or any traces of her filth left in the house? (Homeless man made it clear that the creature leaves the basement, hence the marks of her presence should have been definitely there)
How could all of the tunnels be made by only one man? And for what reason? (If the secret room in the basement was more than enough)
I don't even want to mention the explaination of Mother's nature and origins (homeless person described her as a product of multiple incest acts and births, though if she was born in 80s, and her mother and grandmother "aka her sisters" should have been at least 13 to bear a child, and obviously the maniac wasn't doing his evil deeds since childhood; - there just mathematically can't be such a whole lot of incest generations as the movie tries to put it.
Also it was extremely hard to believe that director made this booking coincidence indeed just a coincidence.
To sum up, everything is merely perfect untill the death of Skarsgard character. Second part of the movie and especially the ending were simply unsatisfying comparing to the the first part.
It was very disappointing to see how abruptly the movie had lost this great intriguing thread surrounded by this peculiar cozy-trilling ambience, and had gone into the typical case of modern horror film.
Really disappointing...
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