redrobin62-321-207311 Okay, what this movie is not - The Exorcist, The Amityville Horror, Carrie or The Shining. Does it have elements of those classic films? In spades. I'm guessing the shortcoming here was the budget. It could've benefited from more special effects, but it is what it is - a ghost story.I feel bad for the movie because there's nothing original in it. You've seen everything in it before. As a matter of fact, some of the scenes were so carbon-copy The Shining that Kubrick must be rolling in his grave. I gave the film a 7 because, seeing it, I didn't feel it was a waste of time. It was a relatively solid possession/ghost story movie, and it definitely reminded me of the fare being exported from South Korea; still, it wasn't a total time waster. Would I watch it again? Not really. For whatever it was, it was decently made. I'm not complaining.

pollylimp The film is not too bad but I have seen very similar ones with almost the same characters,why is it theses days you have young boys that look like little girls,the wife looks nothing like the kids and in fact seems to be two generations ahead of them especially the boy,no real character development and also characters that came and went for no apparent reason what happened to the ghost hunter for example ?I was hoping the daughter would get more involved instead of the wife as she would have been the logical choice for the ghost to be interested in not someone with one foot in the grave already.The usual old chestnut despite the obvious haunting of the house that the main character refuses to believe something is going on till two thirds of the film is over is getting very tired indeed

quincytheodore There's an inkling feeling when watching Altar that it's nearly identical with other horror movies. The isolated moor seems like the one in The Woman in Black, its haunting resembles The Shining or even Poltergeist at some point with the CG. It presents a few dreadful scenes only to lose its effectiveness as audience realizes the shoddy effect and unimaginative scare.A woman is hired to do restoration on an ancient site. She brought her family along and needless to say, the site has a troubled past. Between the eerie occurrence before and increasingly haunting presence, The plot follows a strict formulaic premise and it brings too many elements, it becomes burdensome at times. The most dubious bit is how this entity is presented.Altar wants to give many subplots of the horror came to be, but it's done in sloppy fashion. There are too many strange developments, especially with the possession gimmick. Acting and script can barely handle the weighty sporadic subjects, and it's just fumbling from one horror attempt to another.Its location is pretty nice, gloomy and practically screaming horror. It's already a good vista, but the movie spends too much on bantering. Not to mention it also takes some flaws from other horror movies like the clueless characters or overly cryptic sacrificial ritual. The worse is its use of CGI, what could have been a decent terror is decreased to silly overlapping images like scenes from old TV show.Altar scrounges many aspects from other movies of the genre, it's eventually overwhelmed by the cumbersome direction and doesn't even produce the same thrill it's inspired from.

mateus_mgreside When all the horror movies are based on liters of blood with scheduled scares I never expected to see a horror film based on ghosts as well as present the legends, this film was a pleasant surprise in the middle of a bunch of garbage. At first it was confusing but after a while the pieces were coming together will not go into too much detail because of spoilers believe people did not like it because nowadays seek all easy, do not like to think too much but for those who like to use the brain and how I want to escape the lot of horror film based on deformed creatures and hundreds of gallons of blood, this is a great option, I recommend you watch with an open mind to new experiences, because this film runs away from everything that was launched in recent years then it may be a little strange to watch it with pre defined terms of ridiculous productions nowadays.