A clairvoyant mother needs to stop a malevolent entity that consumes a young girl and threatens her daughter.
Great opening-nightmarish sequence, reminiscent of The Cell (1995) or even Silent Hill (2006). Very promising, but does the rest of the film live up to this promise? The sequence after that, the girl’s appearance, most certainly does. It’s suspenseful, and it sets the cogs in motion. And that applies to the rest of the suspenseful sequences, really.
Writer/producer/co-editor/director Chad Archibald does an incredible job building up the suspense throughout all three acts. In front of the camera, Ashley Green, Ellie O’Brien, Juno Rinaldi, Shawn Ashmore, Shayelin Martin, Julian Richings, and the rest of the cast do a great job, delivering Archibald’s vision.
The drama is somewhat problematic, as it follows a formulaic structure, particularly in terms of dialogue and editing. However, two nasty things happen, so I’ll give it a break. On the other hand, the horror is as good as the suspense, so it’s yet another reason to watch it. If Archibald had left certain clichés aside that imply the audience is less intelligent, it would have scored a lot higher. The same goes for the ending. An indie can be a lot more provocative than studio-level films, but this doesn’t mean that it was all bad. A jaw-dropping ending would have left the audience with a much stronger aftertaste.
Ashley Green may be suffering from being too beautiful and/or from becoming known for something outdated, if you catch my drift. Robert Pattinson seems to have got over it and, hopefully, she will too.
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