Andreas Aristeidou
The only scary thing about this movie is just its existence. It goes beyond wasting your time. It is one of these movies that someone is shot by a gun then after a while stands up as if it never happened and fights in a burning room and then walks out just fine. NO realism NO concrete storyline NOT a single moment of horror..After it finishes you are left with a "what...".
Aruneshwar Singh
Sometimes it takes a while for a film to fully be appreciated. After I watched the film, I gave it only a 6/10 as I felt it was okay, even though I really enjoyed it and liked the script.
However, after a year has passed I thought I would come back and give it some thought and I realized that It is a really food film with a very good script and deserves to be up there with other similar horror movies of note.
crownofsprats
Honestly, the fact that the dude behind the amazing The Loved Ones started out with such a solid premise - and then proceeded to squander it with an unforgivably lame and worthless anticlimactic last act - means it deserves a way worse scourging than anything half-baked executed with spirit.This brew contains some heady ingredients: Texas, Satan, art, metal, a haunted house, a fat psycho in a tracksuit... From the unflinching brutality of his other film I mentioned, you'd think this sort of setup would be taken to all sorts of demonic extremes. But all the good ideas fizzle out and go nowhere. The haunted house, for instance - the worst it ever makes our painter protagonist do is lose track of time! The most fleshed out detail in the film is the family dynamic, but even that's vague and one-dimensional. Not to mention annoying. The minor characters are bland and completely forgettable. Even a good sense of place is missing - some locations have little congruity with another. Eventually, this is all drowned out by the boring and stupidly improbable climactic act. You'd think the entire area has, like, two cops. Or that you can be shot through the torso and still manage to get up ladders and beat people with creative objects. If this movie wanted to have some family dynamics gluing it together, then it should have gone in a very different direction - and gone there all the way. But it was way too scared to go there it seems. Too bad.
nthomas-15794
Although this movie is classified as a horror film, it is not a slasher movie. It is much more of a suspenseful and "beautifully disturbing" type of movie (which are the best kind of horror films). It makes beautiful biblical analogies all the way up until the credits, from the names of characters, to the plot itself, yet from a heavy metal, modern-day lens. A wonderfully filmed movie with a fantastic hard-rocking score. An absolute must watch!