★ 1 / 10
The worst movie ever with terrible acting, it
inta k
the worst movie ever with terrible acting, it was so bad. painful to watch.
the worst movie ever with terrible acting, it was so bad. painful to watch.
★ 1 / 10
It was a good idea in theory, but the execution was dreadful
tamathews01
Horror is an excellent way of exploring things like mental health (Saint Maud), Grief (the babbadook) and in this case post-partum depression. It is something…
Horror is an excellent way of exploring things like mental health (Saint Maud), Grief (the babbadook) and in this case post-partum depression. It is something people don't talk about much, and was a great candidate for a film.Unfortunately it didn't work. At all. The lead actress tried but the script was incredibly clunky and contained some of the worst dialog I have listened too in a long time. It was very stilted, very un-natural, and required the actors to over-act to compensate. Filled with cliches, and the entire thing felt mechanical, like the writer had tried to study humans from a distance through bad TV but had never actually had a relationship with one. You could basically see the calculations he/she had made about each line. The exposition was sloppy, and we constantly learn about the inner mental state of the character because she verbally tells us (through the gimmick of writing in a journal), which is a cop out to give information we should have been able to glean from the acting and visuals (but couldn't because there wasn't space for that).I don't understand on any level why the writer decided to make the husband a paediatrician, it serves to make every subsequent decision make zero sense at all. He is a qualified medical doctor who knows that his wife has a serious pre-existing mental health condition, is off her medication, the danger that poses, and also knows full well the additional mental health risk from postpartum depression. A conference of other paediatricians is basically the most forgiving event you can imagine in terms of understanding why he would need to bow out. He was also stupid to commit to it, even if the baby arrived slightly earlier than expected. His reaction to her phone call admitting problems was just ridiculousShe then receives medical advice from her doctor, in a conversation where she admits having serious trouble and absolutely 100% shows diagnosable signs of postpartum depression, and despite knowing that she is alone and has a history of mental health problems he does nothing. This again makes even less sense when you think about the fact that the husband is a doctor, it is highly unlikely that he doesn't know her doctor at least professionally because he would have recommended him). On top of that again the dialogue just isn't like any medical conversation anyone has ever had with their doctor, the tone was wrong, the logic of the conversation was wrong, everything about it was wrong.Even the baby was terrible, there are scenes where the baby is crying and coughing after feeding and you can see very very clearly that it is completely inanimate plastic baby, not even being moved by the actor. They choose silly camera angles to try and disguise it (but then cut to angles that make it obvious thus defeating the point).The score was also amateurish, the logic seemed to be "something significant has happened, so let's accent it with a loud noise!". The highly discordant noises came in far too early and there is no particular build up in intensity, which there absolutely needed to be.It was a terrible shame to lump the actors with this film. The script should never ever have been selected for production.Lots of the other reviews here are from people saying it is too slow, or not "horror" enough. Personally I enjoy both jump scare and gory horror as well as interesting psychological horror, the pacing did not bother me at all. It just isn't a good psychological horror, or drama ,or anything else. Do not allow whomever wrote this script to waste your evening.
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★ 2 / 10
Not a horror movie!
swedish_lioness
I love horror movies, and though I find most horror movies to be laughably bad, I still watch them, looking for that rare occasion when you find a real gem…
I love horror movies, and though I find most horror movies to be laughably bad, I still watch them, looking for that rare occasion when you find a real gem hidden amongst all the pebbles. This is NOT one of those gems. This is a drama about postpartum depression, the grief of losing a child and how important it is to get the right medication...
The reason this movie got such a low rating from me, is that when I watch a horror movie, I want it to be a horror movie - good or bad. But what I don't want it to be is anything but a horror movie. Imagine going to you car dealer to pick up the brand new Jaguar you ordered and when you get there, they give you an old, used Trabant... You don't want to pay for one thing and get something else altogether. The only reason this movie didn't get one star only is because Sydney Carvill did a very good job and she deserves credit for it. If I was going to rate this as a drama, I would have given it a higher rating. But not as a horror movie, because as a horror movie, Adalynn sucks!
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